This is a Republic production so because of that it is pretty much a standard western. Ray Milland is the a infamous gun man whose horse gives out in desert. He has to shoot it humanely rather than have the horse suffer. Then he walks into a stage massacre. He takes one of the stage horses and rides it into town.
This is where the plot thickens as he has to shoot a Deputy (Alan Hale0 who shoots him first. Wounding Hale is not the best way into town. Then it gets worse as the chase leads him into the bank where he learns who killed all the stage people. Raymond Burr is a despicable bad guy who hired the people who were the killers, and has bribed the town sheriff into going along.
The rest of the movie is Milland's bad guy trying to get away and to pin these crime on them instead of on him. It gets a little more fun when he falls for Mary Murphy, the sheriffs daughter. The sheriff is ill so he is bedridden until late in the film. Then he and his daughter square off. In the finale one of Burr's Henchmen rats him out for the while town to hear. Then we have the required happy ending of this era of westerns. The way it ends is typical but the trip to get there is one less traveled, by a man alone.
This is where the plot thickens as he has to shoot a Deputy (Alan Hale0 who shoots him first. Wounding Hale is not the best way into town. Then it gets worse as the chase leads him into the bank where he learns who killed all the stage people. Raymond Burr is a despicable bad guy who hired the people who were the killers, and has bribed the town sheriff into going along.
The rest of the movie is Milland's bad guy trying to get away and to pin these crime on them instead of on him. It gets a little more fun when he falls for Mary Murphy, the sheriffs daughter. The sheriff is ill so he is bedridden until late in the film. Then he and his daughter square off. In the finale one of Burr's Henchmen rats him out for the while town to hear. Then we have the required happy ending of this era of westerns. The way it ends is typical but the trip to get there is one less traveled, by a man alone.