Dan Duryea

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

Two Confederate soldiers steal a Union Army payroll at the end of the Civil War. After one goes to prison for five years, he returns to find his wife has died of poverty and seeks revenge on his partner who has become a powerful outlaw.

Gary Cooper (1952's "High Noon") gives a marvelous, tongue-in-cheek performance as a fumble-fingered cowpoke who is mistaken for a notorious bandit and almost gets killed by both sides of the law all while managing to capture the attention of Loretta Young. William Demarest co-stars as Cooper's trusty sidekick and Dan Duryea plays the villainous Monte Jarred for whom Cooper is mistaken.

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

From joining the New York Yankees to wedding his sweetheart to the brutal disease that would end his life, this is the story of a baseball legend.