Republic Pictures
Directed by W. Lee Wilder
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Encore)
Slow moving account of a pair of "pitch men", snake oil salesmen, in a dusty Arizona border town drawn into solving a murder. Douglas Fowley is Yankee Davis, the fast talking salesman who has his eye on local gal Joan Woodbury. Her father is the victim and the suspects are any number of suspicious townsfolk. He hires an elderly gold prospector to pass himself off as a millionaire. They hatch a plan to expose the killer by offering a reward for the "worst person in town", hoping to learn his identity when the locals air their dirty laundry. Odd title comes from the last line in the movie, in which the millionaire is called a "Yankee faker", but it is indeed spelled "fakir" in the titles of the TV print aired on Encore Westerns.
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