Mysteriously shortened to Gunpoint for its UK release, this is a very average Allied Artists western owing much to High Noon in its plotting. It stars a rather glum Fred MacMurray, but the ever-glamorous Dorothy Malone (seemingly born to play frontierswomen) is the main attraction here, doing sterling work as Fred's wife. Walter Brennan's in there, too, for western authenticity, and the whole benefits from being filmed in CinemaScope. However, director Alfred Werker's pace is just too slow for comfort.

A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.