After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Jeff Chandler
as James Gordon Blane
Jeanne Crain
as Diane Blane
Jack Carson
as Sheriff Nick Hoak
Gail Russell
as Carol Morrow
Elaine Stewart
as Charleen Reston
George Tobias
as Billy Giles
Edward Andrews
as Lester Rawlings
Phillip Reed
as Michael Reston
Edward Platt
as Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)
Paul Birch
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Alexander Lockwood
as Paul Vernon
Edwin Jerome
as Judge David L. Johnson
