Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
Robert Ryan
as Marshal Cass Silver
Virginia Mayo
as Sally
Jeffrey Hunter
as Thad Anderson
Robert Middleton
as Honest John Barrett
Walter Brennan
as Jake
Arthur O'Connell
as Jim Dexter
Rodolfo Acosta
as Chico
Ken Clark
as Pike
George Mathews
as Dillon
Fay Roope
as Markham
Edward Platt
as Dr. Barlow
Whit Bissell
as Mr. Sam Bolton
