Desc: Lightnin' Smith Returns: Directed by Jack Irwin. With Buddy Roosevelt, Barbara Worth, Tom London, Nick Dunray. John Smith is a writer of western novels but has never been west of the Hudson River. Hlen Parker invites him to visit her Texas ranch and get a real feel of the real west. Once he arrives, she and her cowhands frame him to appear as a notorious bandit. But, then, the real bandit shows up.