Rawhide

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig hangs up his bat and glove, puts on a ten gallon Stetson and heads out west for his sister´s ranch - and a whole lot of trouble.

An insidious gang of outlaws has taken over the Rancher´s Protective Association and they are making life miserable for the local cattlemen, extorting money, restricting trade and paying off a corrupt sheriff to do their bidding. The outlaws are also plotting to murder a kindly and respected town elder, the man who founded and ran the once benevolent ranch owners´ group. Fortunately for Gehrig and the other ranchers, a dashing, young cowboy lawyer is well aware of the corruption and anxious to help. Larry Kimball (Smith Ballew) is as keen with a six shooter as he is with the law. Before he and the baseball great can rid the town of the badmen they must organize local landowners to ride with them.

A handsome, craggy-faced Lou Gehrig shows a surprising flair for acting far afield of the baseball diamond in his only theatrical motion picture appearance.