It stars Yul Brynner as a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a Confederate gold heist.

[3] Nimoy mentioned this film in both of his autobiographies because it gave him a chance to break away from his role as Spock on Star Trek.

Offering to turn himself in, Catlow joins Cowan on a stagecoach to Fort Smith, but his men stage an ambush.

Catlow heads for Hermosillo, Mexico, where a woman named Rosita is in love with him and a $2 million shipment of gold is arriving soon by mule train.

After a later confrontation, Catlow tosses the bound marshal across a horse with a badge pinned on his backside and turns him loose.

Meantime, a smiling Catlow puts on his friend's badge and gives an indication that he will turn to the right side of the law.

[5] In June 1970, L'Amour said the film would be the first of five made from his novels starring Stephen Boyd, the others being Down the Long Hills, Flint, Radigan, and Hanging Woman Creek.