A movie company selects the X Bar X as the site for its next feature film, "The Sagebrush Mystery," thereby angering One-Arm Kosty, the caretaker of the Z II ranch which was first considered. Kosty tries to persuade the director to change his mind; when he is unsuccessful, he sets out to ruin the production through a series of moves which progress from nuisance to criminal. In a subplot, the 14-year-old star of the movie turns out to be the son whom Kosty had abandoned years before. Things really get complicated when the boy is kidnapped.

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