 Based on the actual "Boy s Ranch" located in Oldham County, Texas northwest of Amarillo, Texas. The ranch was started in 1939 by ex-wrestler Cal Farley of Amarillo as a home for underprivigeled boys when rancher Julian Blivins donated the old Tascosa courthouse and 120 acres of land for Farley s project. It started with Farley and his wife and six boys, and currently has over 400 boys and fifty buildings on 4000 acres of farm/ranch land and its own post office and school. Now known as Cal Farley s Boy s Ranch. This film is a semi-western version of MGM s earlier "Boy s Town" plot-wise in which a snarling little petty thief and liar (played by, who else, Skip Homeier in a repeat of his Nazi brat in "Tomorrow the World)who comes to the ranch and immediately makes problems. His comeuppance and redemption is a foregone conclusion, although many viewing the film were rooting for him to end up in Tascosa s old Boot Hill. James Craig and Dorothy Patrick play the characters of Cal Farley and his wife under fictional names.