John C. Champion, Bruce Balaban, Columbia Pictures.
Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys, Aldo Sambrel, Antonio Casas
Former sheriff Jess Carlin (Murphy) is living in Mexico but must return to the Texas town of Rim Rock when his newspaperman brother is murdered. Town boss Luke Starr (Crawford) is behind the crime but the townspeople are too scared to help Carlin out--except for saloon gal Kit (Lorys).