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The townspeople of Summit, Alabama are a happy folk whose bliss is marred only by young Johnny Dorset, a ’two-legged skyrocket of a kid’ whose mischief leaves no one unscathed.  Two con-men kidnap Johnny in order to extort a large ransom from his mother.  The scheme soon goes awry:  the ’supernatural tortures’ imposed by Johnny, alias Red Chief, on the two hapless kidnappers wear their patience thin; the townspeople, overjoyed at the boy’s disappearance, refuse to help the sheriff search for him; and the Widow Dorset offers to take the boy off the kidnappers’ hands for a small fee.  When Red Chief captures four friends and brings them to the hideout, the renegades’ resolve is further weakened, and they decide to accept his mother’s generous offer.