Death Valley Gunfighter is a 1949 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Robert Creighton Williams.

The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, James Nolan, Gail Davis, William "Bill" Henry, Harry Harvey, Sr. and Mauritz Hugo.

[1][2][3] A wagonload of quicksilver on its way from the Lucky Brothers Mine to Panamint Wells is raided by the Death Valley Gang, the third shipment to be stolen in two months.

At the mine the 2 remaining brothers, ailing Les and crotchety Nugget, are about to tell the miners their pay is ready when the bandits arrive.

When he goes to find Tony to tell him get Snake back on their side, McKnight panics and gets ready to steal the bank's money and run away.

Rocky's plan, though he tells Trudy it is Nugget's, is to send the quicksilver across the desert and for Keith to drive a decoy wagon along the road.

Rocky then disarms Keith, confirms with him that Tony knows about the quicksilver and races off to find Nugget and the wagons.

When they get there Rocky escapes, leaving 2 of he gang dead, and rides back to town and frees Keith.