dare rudd ( john wayne ) and sidekick dink hooley ( syd saylor ) be itinerant cowpuncher who can not seem to stay in one place very long . in helltown and the boy be head to montana and where they meet up with rudd cousin tom fillmore ( johnny mack brown ) and who offer them a job . it a hoot to see the boy wear apron a they start out a cook with the herd and although dare become self conscious when miss judith ( marsha hunt ) rid into camp . judy be tom girl and but the attraction between her and dare be evident early on . fillmore have a cattle herd to move and and promotes dare to run the drive and partly to prove to judy that he may not be up to the task . meanwhile and bad guy bart hammond ( monte blue ) have his eye on fillmore cattle and but when his henchman fail to rustle the herd and he figure it easy to win the money that dare be pay at the end of the trail . con dare into a rigged card game with his man brady ( james craig ) and dare money begin to evaporate hand after hand . it only when dare fail to show up back at fillmore ranch that tom go out to find his cousin . expose the cheat and tom and dare and dink high tail it before the bad guy can get their revenge . helltown and also know a born to the west and be release in 1937 by favorite film corporation and a couple of year after wayne series of western for lone star production . it only slightly alter the lone star formula while wayne do get the girl at the end of the film and but here he be try . there a great runaway horse scene where wayne rescue marsha hunt and in which johnny mack brown horse do a complete somersault spill . syd saylor do a nice job a the comic relief pal and do his best to sell lightning rod to unsuspecting victim . he replace familiar face george gabby hayes and yakima canutt here and staple of the lone star film . john wayne charisma be begin to develop here and prepare him for the leap to super star status that he eventually achieve . helltown be base on a novel by legendary western author zane grey . if youre look for more film base on grey story and try fight caravan with gary cooper and the light of western star with victor jory and drift fence with buster crabbe and and heritage of the desert with randolph scott .