Widower Lee Hackett (Van Heflin), a cattle rancher who is a product of the old west, tries to bring up his two sons, Ed (Tab Hunter)and Davy (James Darren), in his image, but Ed is wild and unruly. The two brothers are both attracted to Clee Chourard ('Kathryn Grant(I)') but she prefers Davy. Ed's efforts to outshine his father and brother and everyone else leads him into a car...
Successful middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford returns to the town where he attended college many years previously. His conscience has been bothering him since whilst a student, he fathered an illegitimate son who was given away to the local orphanage. He returns to the orphanage and meets its current head, Ann Dempster, hoping to persuade her to help him find his son. She r...
Taken from a review at Time Out: Excellent, factually based Civil War Western, in which Heflin's Confederate officer leads a group of soldiers, with whom he has escaped from a Union prison camp, in a plan to avenge the destruction of Southern communities by first taking over, and then sacking, a Northern town close to the Canadian border. Tension is slowly but surely built up a...
卡迪（罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰）是一个无恶不作的无耻混蛋，刚刚结束了十四年牢狱生活的他满脑子只有一件事情，就是去向一位名叫萨姆（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）的律师寻仇。原来，在曾经的庭审中，萨姆手握这一份对卡迪有利的证据，然而萨姆了解卡迪邪恶的本性，于是选择隐藏了证据，导致卡迪被判了重刑。
卡迪很快就找到了萨姆的住所，他的阴魂不散让萨姆一家人终日生活在担惊受怕之中，不仅如此，卡迪还屡屡骚扰卡迪的妻子佩吉（波莉·伯根 Polly Bergen 饰）和女儿南希（Lori Martin 饰），忍无可忍的萨姆找了一名打手对付卡迪，然而卡迪太过强壮，打手根本就不是他的对手。
