Marked Men (1940 film)

Marked Men is a 1940 American film directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Sherman Scott") for Producers Releasing Corporation.

Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is a man wrongfully imprisoned after being framed by gangster Joe Mallon (Paul Bryar).

The attempted break fails, and Mallon and his gang are soon caught by the police and put back behind bars—except for Bill, who escapes to the Arizona desert and picks up a stray dog he names Wolf.

In the small town of Tempe, he meets Linda (Isabel Jewell), who offers him work with her father, Dr James Prentiss Harkness (John Dilson).

Because of the lack of water and the dangers in the desert at night, only Bill, his dog and Mallon remain when they come close to the border, as during the trek he has brutally killed his henchmen for arguing with him when trying to quench their thirst from the dwindling supplies they are carrying.