Following the Civil War, brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas, where ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he's rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, now the Marshal, but they have an inevitable falling-out.

• Universal International Pictures
• Robert Ryan
• Julie Adams
• Rock Hudson
• Judith Braun
• John McIntire
• Raymond Burr
• James Arness
• Dennis Weaver