A man is unable to afford the medical supplies his wife desperately needs, leading to her death. His neighbours feel guilty about their failure to help, so give him the job of deputy sheriff, a position he uses to plot a bank robbery and get his revenge on the people who failed to prevent his loss. Western, starring Alan Ladd and Don Murray.

Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.