A rancher takes action after a gang of renegade soldiers rides into town and causes trouble, giving their mortally wounded leader the false assurance that he will guide the outlaws to a safe place in the mountains, where they can hole up and escape the law - on the condition they leave the townsfolk in peace. Western, starring Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Nehemiah Persoff and Alan Marshal.

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.