Admitedly this is an odd Western to my way of thinking.

But, Western357, I think that's the userid, anyway this person didn't watch the film very closely. The scene she mentions where the lead female shoots the pan off the wall and her intended grabs her and spanks, didn't happen that way. He grabs her and turns her over his knee the sighing rests his elbow on her rump with chin in hand and says something like, "what's the use?"

What the seen was about was her intended was claiming that she had no one to take care of her but himself, so she proves she can shoot dead eye straight. He decides she's too stubborn to benefit from a spanking. Then they cheerfully go out and look at a beautiful stud horse.

This is kind of a range war ghost story with a misunderstood boy believing he killed someone but when they go to find the body it's gone. The old trade shop where the body is supposed to be has inches of undisturbed dirt.

Western357 is correct in the editing does seem to make the story jump as if pieces are missing.

Chill Wills plays his affable old self as he is in nearly all his films. Aside from the killing that seems not to be a killing, a barn dance, all the punishment seems heaped on the boy played by John Barrymore, Jr. He's whipped, rope dragged and beaten. The kid can't win for losing. He keeps looking over his shoulder for the mysterious killers that were supposed have been killed 15 years earlier.

Anyway, I'm watching as I write this, I get the idea at the moment that I wouldn't recommend this film. It just really doesn't seem to be going anyway. Young Barrymore mugs a lot. So much so that his face seems frozen and all emotions are expressed with this same look. Why are these "ghosts" chasing after him? What can I say about the character's name "Cooncat?" It seems to roll awkwardly off the tongue of anyone that calls him that. Now they think Cooncat killed a couple of old people. He didn't of course, but he knows he's going to be accused of it. Which he is. A CSI investigator would see right through this and get him off.

It's entirely possible that I am missing the point of your message.