An ageing Robert Taylor and a sneering Richard Widmark star as adversaries in this handsomely mounted western directed by that master of the genre, John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock). It's a tale of two outlaws who once rode together, but now the evil Widmark is back and trying to coerce a reformed Taylor into revealing where their ill-gotten loot is buried. The climax - a Comanche Indian attack on a ghost town - is particularly well choreographed, and Robert Surtees's cinematography is often breathtaking. The clever, laconic screenplay by William Bowers tends to be underrated, as, indeed, was this fine, tense western, sent out on its original release with Tarzan and the Lost Safari.

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.