Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, and Walter Brennan star! In an amazing career that spanned 70 years, this movie is Kirk Douglas’s very first Western! After rescuing a cattle rustler from a lynch mob, United States Marshal Len Merrick vows to keep Tim “Pop” Keith alive long enough to stand trial. But local cattle baron Ed Roden wants to take care of Keith himself, since he believes that Keith killed his beloved son, Ed, Jr.—and his idea of justice includes murdering Keith! Can Merrick get Keith and his pretty daughter, Ann, across the desert safely—and see that justice is served?