Ride A Crooked Mile

Raised to be a hard-fighting Cossack, Tamiroff is the leader of a gang of cattle thieves. Tamiroff is joined by his 21-year-old son, Erickson, sent to him by his ex-wife. "Like father, like son," goes the old saying, and it certainly applies to Erickson, for he is just as aggressive and manly as his father. The two try to outdo each other in various feats, and mutual admiration and respect soon blossom. But the law catches up with Tamiroff, and he is sent off to Leavenworth. Erickson joins a cavalry unit and plots to help his father escape. The escape works, but a moral crisis arises for the son when his unit must search for the escapees. He leads the search party ...