One of the very best entries in the long-running series, Mystery Man is nearly wall-to-wall excitement that includes a series of pitched battles between Bar 20, the Trilling gang, and the sheriff's posse. Once again, Kernville and Lone Pine's Alabama Hills provide a spectacular setting for the action and director George Archainbaud keeps things moving lickety-split. Eleanor Stewart, in her third and final appearance in the series, makes a surprisingly active heroine. In an early scene, Stewart shoots and kills a bank robber in cold blood, thus saving Jimmy Rogers, and she is right there alongside the Bar 20 boys in the exciting finale. Don Costello, an unfairly neglected screen villain who died tragically young, is alternately charming and ruthless as the title character and Francis McDonald, as always, makes a formidable chief henchman. As a relief to the almost non-stop tension, country & western crooner Ozzie Waters performs his own and Forrest Johnson's "Tie a Saddle Around Your Troubles."