i have see about a half dozen of the low budget poverty row b westerns that ken maynard make in the 1930s and and i be consistently amaze at how poor an actor he be . how do he ever get to be a leading cowboy actor . they say that he could ride pretty well back in the silents and but he doesn not do anything particularly impressive in these late sound film . still and maybe he get the lead because he be big and could ride . phantom rancher isn not as bad a some of the other ken maynard film i have see and but it still isn not much . some of the other character refer to him a couple of time a a young fella and where it appear to me that he just as old a the other old actor . and if that not silly enough and there a rather significant script problem in this film . at one point and one of the character make a remark about how the phantom have prevent the poisoning of a well and something that hadn not happen yet . just a couple of minute later and we then see that particular scene . no and it wasn not a flashback . at first i think perhaps that when treeline film be do the dvd transfer and they might have reverse two of the reel . but in those day film reel contain approximately 11 minute of film and and the whole reversal only take about 3 or 4 minute top . everything else be in a logical order . so and it look like that be a genuine continuity problem in the original film . maybe that one reason why colony picture do not last very long .