Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
Acting
Lawrence Tierney's unhinged henchman energy
Direction
Rod Amateau squeezing scope into 67 minutes
Practical Effects
Real Missouri locations, fake everything else
Director
Rod Amateau
John Ireland
Jefferson Waring
Wayne Morris
Marshal John Harding
Lawrence Tierney
Sam Tobin
Dorothy Malone
Cathy Sharpe
Lon Chaney Jr.
Artemus Taylor
Myrna Dell
Norah Taylor
Frank Marlowe
Peter Sharpe
Jack Elam
Cree
Ward Wood
Henchman #2
Charles Trowbridge
Justin Stone
Norman Leavitt
Deputy Yale
Stuart Randall
Slocum
George Lynn
Guthrie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rod Amateau later directed The Dukes of Hazzard and Married... with Children pilots—this was his grindhouse apprenticeship.
Released during the 1951 Hollywood labor wars, its anti-corporate rancher villain accidentally echoed real studio-system tensions.
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