Bill Boyd Western #14

Bill Boyd hits the trail when two ruthless escaped convicts blast their way to freedom, leaving murder and chaos in their wake—but when a blizzard descends on the badlands, Bill finds himself pitted not just against the killers, but against nature itself. With quick wits and quicker gunplay, Bill pursues the fugitives into treacherous territory, where a dangerous masquerade may be his only chance to close in on his quarry before they vanish into the wilderness.

Windy tries to win favor with the boss's daughter June by flattering her, but his attempts at compliments keep backfiring spectacularly—mistaking her spine for dress buttons and telling increasingly outlandish tall tales about a cousin so thin he nearly drowned in a soda straw. When June finally opens up about her insecurity over being skinny, Windy sees his chance to help cheer her up, though his methods are likely to be just as hilariously misguided as everything else he's attempted in this 1951 humor tale.

Hammerhead takes the witness stand in a courtroom scene about a stagecoach accident, where he's asked to describe the plaintiff's clothing—but his rough frontier vernacular lands him in hot water when his attempt to comment on her attire gets spectacularly misinterpreted. It's a quick, punchy gag that plays on the gap between what Hammerhead means to say and what the court hears.

A fellow named Smithers shows off his newly slicked-down hair to Betsy Lou, only to reveal he's used an unconventional styling method that backfires spectacularly. This quick-witted western humor yarn delivers a punchline that'll make you groan and grin in equal measure.

Slim Jeans, the singing sensation of the West, meets his match when a heckler named Crabmouth crashes the opera house and challenges both his voice and his fighting prowess. What starts as a war of words between the cocky crooner and his brash critic quickly escalates into a barrage of insults and comebacks that neither one seems willing to let go of. When Slim finally decides to put Crabmouth in his place once and for all, things take a turn neither of them expected.