A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
Acting
Lon Chaney Jr.'s drunk, broken Kile—wasted potential never looked so good.
Direction
Springsteen squeezes genuine tension from an 81-minute B-western.
Costume
Linda Darnell's saloon dresses working overtime on a clearly tight budget.
Director
R.G. Springsteen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rory Calhoun produced this himself after Paramount dropped him; desperation fuels Santee's edge.
The 'tar and feathers' scene echoes real 1964 Klan violence—unusually political for a B-western.
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