A strong cast of familiar faces provides much-needed gravitas to Timothy Woodward Jr.’s Western drama delivering cinematic comfort food to fans of the venerable genre. Starring Michael Pare (displaying a weathered but still formidable charisma that moviegoers will recall from the likes of Streets of Fire and Eddie and the Cruisers), Traded features nary an original element but nonetheless registers as a solid if minor oater.

Set in 1880s Kansas, the story concerns Clay Travis (Pare), a reformed gunslinger living a peaceful life as a rancher with his wife Amelia (Constance Brenneman), 17-year-old daughter Lily (Brittany Elizabeth Williams) and younger son Jake (Hunter Fischer). The family’s life is torn apart when Jake is killed by a rattlesnake, sending his mother into a deep depression and driving Lily to leave home unannounced and pursue her dream of being a “Harvey Girl” (Google it if you haven’t seen the 1946 Judy Garland musical).

Following his daughter to Wichita, Clay discovers that she’s been captured into white slavery and forcibly brought to Dodge City. Needless to say, this doesn’t sit well with him, so he continues his pursuit while confronting a variety of villains along the way, including a ruthless brothel owner (country singer Trace Adkins, making for a convincing bad guy); a scoundrel (Martin Kove) who’s sexually abusing his stepdaughter; and the white slaver played by (who else?) Tom Sizemore. One of the few sympathetic figures he encounters is elderly barkeep Billy (Kris Kristofferson, whose Western bona fides include Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), who offers philosophical advice along with a gun and a horse when necessary.