The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song "A Rollin' Stone" by Lionel Newman.

The film stars Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward with Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam and George Tobias.

A strong-willed woman named Vinnie Holt and her very young niece Callie arrive on a coach on their way east.

The man flashes a deputy sheriff's badge from Huntsville, saying that he is hunting the escaped convicts, so Owens gives Todd the all-clear signal.

However, they soon learn that the man is Rafe Zimmerman, the convict who had escaped from Huntsville the day before his scheduled hanging for the murder of his girlfriend and her lover.

They are hardcore outlaw Tevis, simpleton Yancy and obedient Gratz, all of whom were around Zimmerman when he made his prison break.

Zimmerman knows that they need an official from the company there when the last coach passes through that night, as he will assure the cavalry to the east that all is well, and the best way to convince Owens to do this is to leave his wife and baby alone.

After the last coach passes, Owens manages to grab a kitchen knife, and he and Holt chip away frantically throughout the night at the clay brick wall in the bedroom where they are being held captive.