Special Investigator (film)

Special Investigator is a 1936 RKO Radio Pictures American crimedrama film, starring Richard Dix and featuring Margaret Callahan, Erik Rhodes and Owen Davis, Jr.. It was directed by Louis King from a screenplay by Louis Stevens, Thomas Lennon and Ferdinand Reyher, based on Fugitive Gold, a story by Erle Stanley Gardner originally serialized in the New York Herald Tribunes This Week magazine from May 26July 7, 1935.

In Quartzburg, Virginia Selton Margaret Callahan, Seltons sister, arrives to take care of her brother, who was wounded in the shootout that killed George, but the rest of the gang is suspicious of her. Meanwhile, Bill is visited by a Justice Department agent who tells him that they need to find out definitely if Selton is at the ranch before they can raid it. Bill contrives to meet Virginia when she stops for gas and, unaware that she is the Seltons sister, but knowing that shes connected in some way to the mine, follows her to Reno, where she picks up Dr. Vic Reynolds Jed Prouty at the airport. While they are there, Bill drains the gas from her car to force her to stop on the drive back. When it does, he offers them a ride. At the ranch, while the doctor tends to Selton, Bill plays highstakes poker with Jim Plummer Joe Sawyer, who runs the ranch, and the other members of Seltons gang.Bill returns to the ranch in the next few days, both to see Virginia again and to gather information, but Plummer is suspicious of the supposed smalltown lawyer, and has an argument with Selton about what to do about him, in which Selton orders him not to do anything to him. Nevertheless, one of the gang, Dutch Ray Mayer, takes a shot at Bill while he and Virginia are riding horses, but its Virginia who is wounded instead when her horse is shot from under her. The feverish Selton orders Plummer to deck Dutch, to show them all that hes the boss. ........

Source: Wikipedia