[2] Cass Bunning (Richard Lapp), a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie (Anne Randall), a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel.

Cass helps Nellie escape and the two are forced into marriage by Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory).

Cass is killed in a shootout with the outlaw Billy Pimple (Bob Random), and Neillie is left on her own in the brothel.

Money was tight and by the time filming was completed the movie was several minutes shorter than scripted.

Boetticher later said "Audie got in real trouble with some people in Las Vegas, and he needed a director to make a picture, and he would be the producer.