Hardened wanderer Jim Slater rides the range, seeking to avenge his father's death. He meets Karyl Orton, a frontier widow whose husband died in the ambush and who is now being pursued by gunslinger Johnny Cool. As the unlikely duo faces attacks, Slater begins to suspect that his father died from something more sinister than an apparent Apache ambush, and he soon discovers the shocking truth. © 1956 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.