Gertrude's Warning

It is said that love is blind, but sometimes it can be fatal. In 1934, Beautiful sixteen year old Irene drops out of Comanche Springs High School and leaves her home on the Four Jacks Ranch because of the Great Depression. She finds a job as a waitress at Travis Brown's restaurant, the Dixie Cafe. Travis is immediately attracted to the beautiful young waitress. Gertrude, the other waitress at the Dixie Cafe tries to warn Irene, "Travis can be a nice guy, but he can be real mean, when things don't go his way.
If you hang around long enough, he will hurt you real bad." Irene is so in love with Travis, that she won't listen to Gertrude's warning. Even before Travis proposes to her, she leaves her high school sweet heart Bill Joe. Not long after she and Travis are married, Travis becomes abusive.. Two years later, Travis tries to murder Irene. This murder attempt is witnessed by Billy Joe and her best friend Jolene Haley, Fearing that he would go to prison, Travis now wants to murder Jolene and Billy Joe too.
Can Jolene's father, John Haley, who is a deputy sheriff save them from Travis?