Cross Fire (DVD), Warner Archives, Western

"Western King" Tom Keene stars in this contemporary crime pre-Code Western that pits old West grit against the modern machinery of war. Tom Allan (Keene) is the foreman of the Sierra Mining Company, working under it's board of five kindly coots: blacksmith Mayor Charlie Rudorph (Thomas Brower), Judge Whitney Wilson (Jules Cowles), Dr. Miles Styles (Nick Cogley), banker Jonathan Wheeler (Charles K. French) and rancher Daniel Plummer (Lafe McKee). When Tom heads off to serve in World War One, Bert King (Edward Phillips) is appointed to run the ranch, but Bert is not who he appears. Framed for murder, the surviving members of the board head for the hills, in hiding from Bert and his crony, Krueger (Stanley Blystone). When Tom returns, with pal Ed Wimpy (Edgar Kennedy) along for the ride, Sheriff Wells (Murdock MacQuarrie) convinces Tom to become a deputy in order to undo the injustice. But Bert has acquired an army surplus machine gun