It stars Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Myrna Fahey, James Coburn and Dorothy Green and was based on the short story "Long Gone" by Peter Dawson, the pen name of Jonathan H. Glidden (older brother of Luke Short).

[3] Bank robber Jim Larsen is handcuffed to Deputy Marshal George Allison on his way to prison.

Boarding the train, Larsen overpowers the deputy, takes his pistol and handcuffs him to the rear car.

After Danny dies, Larsen puts his body in a mail sack and throws it off the train.

Jim changes into his father's business suit, which Danny brought, and reboards the train as a passenger at the next stop.

Using the name Ray Kincaid, Larsen plays along and gathers information on the next town, Tangle Blue, Wyoming.

Mark Riley, an earnest but inexperienced sheriff who is Alice's uncle, and a group of deputies stop the train to search for the deputy's murderer; they are satisfied with "Ray Kincaid the mining inspector" due to his travelling with Alice.

Mark is having problems with rich landowner Reed Williams fencing off open range government land.

Larsen/Kincaid finds all the roads away from Tangle Blue are guarded by deputies who prevent anyone from leaving until the wanted poster comes.

The film was shot at the Bell Moving Picture Ranch,[4] Corriganville (the ghost town)[5] and on the Sierra Railroad.