A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
Robert Horton
as Kiowa Jones
Diane Baker
as Amilia Rathmore
Sal Mineo
as Bobby Jack Wilkes
Nehemiah Persoff
as Skoda
Gary Merrill
as Marshal Duncan
Robert H. Harris
as Dobie
Lonny Chapman
as Roy
Royal Dano
as Otto
Zalman King
as Jesse
Harry Dean Stanton
as Jelly
Val Avery
as Morgan
