Gun Runner(1949)

SINGIN' JIMMY'S SLINGIN' LEAD...in trigger round-up of frontier smuggler gang!

Gun Runner is a Western film centered on Kate Diamond, who runs the Roaring Falls Trading Post as a front for smuggling guns to Native Americans. When smuggler Stacey is shortchanged, his men raid the post for hidden weapons, but drifter Jimmy and his partner Cannonball intervene. Jimmy's arrival in Canyon City rekindles his friendship with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. Complications arise when half-breed Danny, a go-between for Kate's operation, wounds the sheriff during a confrontation. As Jimmy uncovers the smuggling ring and captures Danny, the dying sheriff reveals a dark family secret: Jessica is adopted, and her true father is Nebraska, Kate's foreman—a man the sheriff believed long dead. Jimmy must navigate loyalty, law, and deception in this tale of frontier crime and hidden identities.