Gunslinger Jim Garry goes to help his friend Tate Riling, who is engaged in a dispute over land. However, Jim realises that far from defending his own property, Tate intends to steal his neighbours' land by any means necessary, so changes sides to protect them. Western based on Luke Short's novel, starring Robert Mitchum and Barbara Bel Geddes.

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.