Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

Rancher Arnold sends for Hoppy and Red to help fight the cattle rustler Nevada and his gang. Hoppy poses as a gambler to get on Nevada's ranch and meet the snuff-taking boss who pictures himself another Napoleon. Hoppy's smoke signal alerts Arnold's men, leading to a massive gunfight.—Maurice VanAuken <[email protected]>

The third entry in the Hopalong Cassidy films finds Jim Arnold (Howard Lang (I)'), owner of the SV Ranch, writing and asking for Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) to aid in the struggle against a gang of rustlers, led by a man known only as Nevada. Arnold also asks that Cassidy NOT bring his friend Johnny Nelson ('James Ellison'), as Arnold wishes to cool down the romance between his daughter Margaret (Jean Rouverol) and Johnny. Cassidy takes along Bar 20 hand Red Connors (Frank McGlynn Jr.), which hacks Johnny off as usual and the hothead storms off making plans of his own. While Cassidy waits in the hills for a meeting with Arnold, Johnny arrives at the SV and encounters a rival for Margaret, George Perdue (Harry Worth), a cultured, snuff-sniffing dandy---real westerners dip---who, is in reality Nevada, a man with a Napoleonic complex, who plans his cattle raids on the tactics used by Napoleon in his military campaigns (other than Waterloo), and he rules his men with an iron discipline. Meanwhile, Cassidy appears at the ranch posing as a dude, and with the help of an old prospector known as "Windy" (George 'Gabby' Hayes'), begins an investigation. Cassidy, who could out-dude anybody when he chose to (and he often chose to and often to the dismay of Cassidy fans) soon discovers that Perdue and Nevada are one and the same. With a pre-arranged signal from Cassidy, the ranchers, led by Johnny, Red and Arnold, sweep in and wipe out the rustlers.—Les Adams <[email protected]>