fred astaire first foray into the western genre and the tv medium and moustache sporting come via this modest old men movie about a trio of retire texas ranger who come together to help their old superior who have be wrongly jail for robbery and murder . walter brennan and chill will and edgar buchanan reprise their role from the original the over the hill gang tv movie make the previous year and while astaire take on the role of the troubled baltimore kid who might not be in jail or lynch ( a newspaperman andy devine misinforms them upon their arrival ) but have fall on hard time and become the town drunk instead . the thing be that astaire be unable to accept his grow old and his shoot ability not be what they use to so and to build up his confidence once more and the trio convince him to accept the badge of town marshal with them a his deputy . however and astaire deludes himself far into think that the roughneck who come into town eventually leave it because of his notoriety ( rather than through the helpful arm and invisible presence of his friend ) and even befriend a much young saloon gal who turn out to be the girl of the robber behind the crime astaire be suppose to have commit in the first place . the quintet of hollywood veteran provide the only pleasure to be have from this meager production because whenever they be offscreen thing get pretty dull indeed .