One killer. Seven strangers. Zero trust. The desert's about to get very crowded.
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
Acting
Gilbert Roland's Peso—charming, untrustworthy, steals every scene he's in.
Writing
Tight 67-minute whodunit structure, no fat, all suspicion.
Director
Harold F. Kress
Gilbert Roland
Peso Herrera
Glenda Farrell
Fanny Webson
Robert Horton
Tom Herrera
Barbara Ruick
Nancy Dekker
Gene Lockhart
Cyril R. Snowden
Harry Morgan
Ed Cotten
Patricia Tiernan
Lorraine Sayburn
Hank Worden
Amber
Myron Healey
Pike Curtis
Emmett Lynn
Les
Argentina Brunetti
Madre
Robert Blake
Luis Herrera
Douglass Dumbrille
Maj. Dekker
Iron Eyes Cody
Apache with Major Dekker's Hat
Chubby Johnson
Juke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Horton would later star in 'Wagon Train'—this was his western training wheels.
1952 Hollywood treating Apache nation as justified antagonists rather than savage stereotypes? Surprisingly nuanced for the era.
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