Westward Ho is a 1935 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury. It stars John Wayne and Sheila Bromley, with Yakima Canutt in a supporting role. Released by the recently created Republic Pictures, it was produced by Paul Malvern who had previously released his John Wayne Lone Star Westerns for Monogram Pictures. According to AllMovie, it is the earliest revisionist Western – the hero, John Wyatt (Wayne), leads a band of vigilantes on a quest for revenge. Plot Whit Ballard and his gang of outlaws steal a herd of cattle from the Wyatts, a family of drovers, murdering the parents. In the aftermath, Ballard takes a shine to one of the boys, Jim (Frank McGlynn, Jr., as an adult) and decides to take him along for kicks, but leaves behind his brother John (John Wayne, as an adult). Once grown up, in an effort to chase down the men who killed his parents and kidnapped his brother, John organizes a frontier Vigilante group of cowboys (who sing, wear black and ride white horses) to bring outlaws to justice, and they become renowned for their success. John joins on as a hand with a cattle herding family, and takes a particular shine to the lovely and sassy daughter Mary (Bromley). Jim (unrecognized by John), using the surname Allen, has also infiltrated the family, to provide intel to Ballard to assist stealing the cattle. John smells a rat, and rides away in the middle of the night, returning with his vigilantes in time to foil the outlaws's plan to rob the family. In the confusion of the gunplay and fighting, Jim manages to make it appear as if he saved the father, and stays unknown as a Ballard confidante. Interrogating one of the outlaws, John discovers that Ballard is the man responsible for killing his family. He lets the outlaw go but tells him to stay out of the local town where Ballard is laying up. John heads to town and recognizes the same outlaw. He starts a fight, but other outlaws join in and he is badly outnumbered. John makes a derring-do escape over roof tops, riding off to again retrieve his vigilantes. Meanwhile Jim tricks Mary into going to Ballard's hideout, where she is locked into a room. Ballard has a ransom note sent to John instructing him to come alone to a canyon if he wants her back.