The 1948 film "The Dude Goes West" is a comedy western film about a man from Brooklyn New York, an Eastern "Dude", who travels to the Wild West in 1876. He meets a girl and encounters outlaws and Indians. When the man visits a saloon he watches two men playing poker. The players have stacks of silver dollars in front of them. The coins are actually imitation prop coins. Later the man holds up a silver dollar which a gunman shoots at.

Daniel "Dan" Bone leaves Brooklyn New York and travels by train to Nevada. On the train he meets Liza Crockett, a young woman whose father has left her a gold mine. Both arrive in the town of Arsenic City but separate as she doesn't like him.

Two gamblers, one unidentified and the other Sam Briggs, sit at a table.

They have stacks of silver dollars in front of them. The coins are actually imitation prop coins.

Sam has his dollars.

The gambler has a better hand but Sam sees him cheating. A gunfight ensues and Dan displays his marksmanship.

Liza sees a lawyer about her father's mine but he tells two local crooks, the Pecos Kid and Kiki Kelly, about the mine. Lisa has a map to the mine. Dan sees the map and travels to the mine. He encounters another man and holds up a silver dollar.

The outlaw shoots the coin. Dan and Liza visit the mine but are captured by Indians. Dan has studied Indian sign language and "talks" to Chief Running Wolf. Dan tells the Indians about the mine and some are hired to work there.

The Indians let Dan and Liza go and they travel to the mine and pick up a wagonload of ore mined by the Indians. They encounter the outlaws.

Another outlaw arrives and is shot by Pecos. The Indians arrive, Pecos and Kiki leave, and the Indians escort Dan and Liza into town.

Eddie Albert as Daniel Bone
Gale Storm as Liza Crockett
Gilbert Roland as the Pecos Kid
James Gleason as Sam Briggs
Barton MacLane as Texas Jack
Binnie Barnes as Kiki Kelly
Chief Yowlachie as Running Wolf
Director: Kurt Neumann
Writers: Mary Loos, Richard Sale