Bells of San Fernando

The San Fernando Valley is run by Anthony Warde with an iron fist. He has stationed guards at the only pass that allows entrance or exit from the valley, and allows no one to come or go. He's been bleeding the residents dry in order to accumulate a personal fortune, after which he plans to bugger off back to Spain.

He has decided to marry Gloria Warren, the daughter of local bellmaker Byron Foulger, though she's in love with Donald Woods, an Irishman who wandered into the valley after being shipwrecked and has stayed because he's a skilled artisan. Woods opposes the marriage and is forced to go into hiding to avoid Warde's men. Woods and Warren plan on escaping the valley and appealing to the governor personally to remove Warde.

This would be a pretty average low budget western of the period were it not for the fact that EVERY actor is doing some kind of terrible accent. That plus really slack pacing in the middle make the barely over an hour run time seem quite a bit longer.