Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
Gary Cooper
as Link Jones
Julie London
as Billie Ellis
Lee J. Cobb
as Dock Tobin
Arthur O'Connell
as Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
as Coaley
John Dehner
as Claude Tobin
Royal Dano
as Trout
Robert J. Wilke
as Ponch
Joe Dominguez
as Mexican Man (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
as Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
as Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
