Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
Bill Elliott
as Joaquin Murietta aka The Black Shadow
Tex Ritter
as Marshal Captain Lake
Frank Mitchell
as Cannonball Boggs
Adele Mara
as Anita Morell
Dick Curtis
as Jeff Gorman
Robert Fiske
as Gil Kirby
Ted Mapes
as Henchman Mason
Eva Puig
as Maria
José Luis Tortosa
as Florencio
Guy Wilkerson
as Long John
Stanley Brown
as Carlos Murietta
Steve Clark
as Henchman
