"There's nothing in California but flowers and everyone knows flowers give you hay fever" Vera states before the fisticuffs. However, Ward Bond and Mike Mazurki come to the rescue. John Wayne is on the run but he has a gorgeous accomplice. Walter Brennan as Captain Bounce couldn't have played it better. A gambler and a railroad tycoon's daughter making their way to Fargo mingled with scoundrels and duplicitous men makes for a great action-packed adventure.