Pocket Money

Jim Kane is a down on his luck cowboy in Nogales, Arizona.He has more good nature than good sense and often takes jack-of-all-trades jobs. His bank loans are jeopardized when his latest Mexican horse purchase is a bust. His horses are quarantined with STD. Jim is broke. The local hotel clerk sympathetic about his situation lets him live in the hotel maid's room for free. His ex-wife goes gentle on him when he cannot make the alimony payments. Jim turns down his uncle's offer of a job but accepts a deal to buy cattle in Mexico for a shady businessman who has a bad reputation. Jim travels to Mexico where he teams up with an old friend by the name of Leonard, who moved to Mexico in order to pursue his many get-rich-quick schemes that never work out. The two amigos set out to buy Mexican cattle from various local ranchers but they experience difficulties and run into trouble collecting on their efforts and expenses.