Two Confederate veterans, broke and homeless, are making their way to Texas to start fresh. After comedic adventures getting into and out of trouble, just trying to make enough move to get to Texas, they witness a stagecoach robbery and manage to hold up the outlaws and take back the cash. At that point they have a difference of opinion; the "good" one Tod Ramsey (Glenn Ford) wants to give it back, the "bad" one Dan Thomas (William Holden) wants to keep it and keep going. Goodness wins out, and both are off the hook.
Tod takes a job with the biggest local rancher (who has a beautiful and friendly daughter, "Mike" King (Claire Trevor). Dan stumbles into a different kind of job—with another rancher who specializes in rustling. They both have heads turned by the lovely lady and the battle of good and evil continues. The key to the action is the need to get the entire town/valley's cattle past all the rustlers up to the railroad at Abilene.
Dan is falsely accused of taking a shot at Tod, but he is dragged by cattle, then shot by Doc Thorpe, the town's dentist. Tod shields Mike's eyes from the sight of the body. Ultimately, the two of them end up back herding cattle together.
Directed by George Marshall
Screenplay by Horace McCoy
Michael Blankfort
Lewis Meltzer
Story by Michael Blankfort
Lewis Meltzer
Produced by Samuel Bischoff
Starring William Holden
Glenn Ford
Claire Trevor
Cinematography George Meehan
Edited by William A. Lyon
Music by Sidney Cutner
Ross DiMaggio
Carmen Dragon
Color process Black and white
William Holden as Dan Thomas
Glenn Ford as Tod Ramsey
Claire Trevor as 'Mike' King
George Bancroft as Windy Miller
Edgar Buchanan as Buford "Doc" Thorpe
Don Beddoe as Sheriff
Andrew Tombes as Tennessee
Addison Richards as Matt Lashan
Edmund MacDonald as Comstock,
Joseph Crehan as Rancher Dusty King
Willard Robertson as Rancher Wilson
Pat Moriarity as Rancher Matthews (as Patrick Moriarity)
Edmund Cobb as Rancher Blaire
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