Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins and mining engineer Grady Mathews find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams. Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancée. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
Direction
Pre-gimmick Castle keeps it surprisingly tight.
Production
They really said 'uranium' fifty times per minute.
Director
William Castle
Dennis Morgan
Bradford "Brad" E. Collins
Patricia Medina
Jean Williams
William Talman
Grady Mathews
Tina Carver
Gail Windsor
Philip Van Zandt
Navajo Charlie
Frank Wilcox
Floyd Gorman
William Henry
Joe McGinnus
Gregg Barton
Phil McGinnus
Henry Rowland
Harry
S. John Launer
Mac
Michael Bryant
Peterson
Kenner G. Kemp
Cafe patron
Herb Vigran
Hotel Desk Clerk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at peak uranium fever — the real Colorado rush made overnight millionaires and overnight ghost towns. This cashed in hard.
Castle later admitted he shot this in twelve days to fulfill a contract obligation. The hunger shows, and somehow works.
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