An honest pioneer is attracted to the fiancee of his friend, a disreputable businessman who is addicted to gambling. The frontiersman tries to clear his conscience by paying his friend's debts, but the gambler cannot resist one last card game - which results in his being suspected of murder. Western, starring Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward. Brian Donlevy. Lloyd Bridges and Patricia Roc.

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.