“Offers the anticipated measures of doomed love and sudden death but surprises with its dramatic richness.” (New Yorker)

Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jessica Drummond, a powerful landowner who, with the help of forty hired gunslingers, rules her Arizona county with an iron fist. That is until former outlaw-turned-US Marshall Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) comes to town looking to overthrow Drummond and set her town straight.