A peace-loving rancher takes on the role of sheriff to protect his town from a vicious outlaw and his drunken gang, who have lynched a simple-minded local for unintentionally killing a crony. Failing to reason with them, the would-be lawman is forced into taking sterner measures to control the situation. Western, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens and Gary Lockwood.

A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.