On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
Randolph Scott
as Ben Brigade
Karen Steele
as Mrs. Carrie Lane
Pernell Roberts
as Sam Boone
James Best
as Billy John
Lee Van Cleef
as Frank
James Coburn
as Whitt
Bennie E. Dobbins
as Outlaw (uncredited)
Roy Jenson
as Outlaw (uncredited)
Dyke Johnson
as Outlaw (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
as Outlaw (uncredited)
Boyd Stockman
as Indian chief (uncredited)