[1] This Eastmancolor film is one of Boetticher's so-called "Ranown cycle" of westerns, made with Randolph Scott, executive producer Harry Joe Brown and screenwriter Burt Kennedy, beginning with Seven Men from Now.

Carrie Lane, the absent station master's wife, emerges holding a rifle and orders the men to leave.

Boone tells Brigade that he and Whit intended to capture Billy and earn an amnesty for all their past crimes by turning him in.

Next morning... as Brigade is preparing to take Carrie to the next weigh station (where he expects to find her husband), a band of Indians approaches and one indicates he wants to talk.

That night... Boone tells Whit that he thinks Brigade is making it easy for Frank to follow them, but doesn't know why.

Brigade kills Frank and shoots the rope hanging Billy from the tree, while Boone and Whit chase off the rest of the gang.

"[5] In the original script, the characters played by James Coburn and Pernell Roberts were meant to die.

However Boetticher felt the actors were too charming to kill off and claims that during filming he contacted the studio executive, Sam Briskin, asking that they be allowed to live.

"[8] Filmink argued "Coburn is lanky, confident, cool, dangerous, humorous – a screen natural.

"[9] In 2008, a DVD box set of five Budd Boetticher films starring Randolph Scott was released by Sony Columbia.

In 2021, the Scott/Boetticher films, along with other Randolph Scott features, were also released on Blu Ray by Mill Creek Entertainment.