Margaret Dare has been gallivanting about Europe on checks from her father's station in Australia. But the river that fattens the cattle has been drying up. Manager Victor Jory wants to drill for water, but so long as the checks go to Miss Dare, there's none for the drill, so he write a preemptory letter to the lady, who shows up with smitten Robert Coote in tow. As the water sinks, Jory and Miss Dare wrangle, then start to bond.

Zane Grey thought that Arizona was getting too crowded, so he moved to Australia for a while and wrote the book this is based on. It's definitely an A western in the period when they were not very common. This story could have been transplanted to the American West with nothing but a change in accents.

It's a very entertaining movie, thanks to Clarence Badger's direction, Jory's masculinity in a period when producers thought he could be a leading man instead of an interesting villain, and Coote's what-ho English idiocy tempered with a good nature and actual use to the plot about the drying river.

A shockingly well made slapstick comedy/pseudo western about a struggling farming family and their returning daughters as they try to understand the pile of mysterious difficulties they are experiencing. The truth literally blows up to their faces.

Well made and acted. Nothing really to talk about. Its much more of an interesting artifact. Like it shows how early commercial flights in Asia/Australia worked AND Australian Outback during the 30s, given that it was an Australian-American co production. Some of the gender dynamics feels dated but the central romance is sweet enough. Fun fight scene too, the use of whips for one is interesting.

Overall, a bit forgettable but well done.