Sheriff Bill Jorden faces opposition from the cattlemen's association, who had hired Hall to kill the farmers as part of a plot to acquire more grazing land.

Fearing violence between the ranchers and farmers, Jorden tries to call for additional help but discovers that the telegraph line serving the town has been cut.

One of the movie's scenes features Coleen Gray and Randy Stuart fighting for possession of incriminating letters hidden in a suitcase.

The actresses invited their husbands to watch the scene's filming, which lasted over 50 seconds and included both women punching and wrestling each other.

At the conclusion of the choreographed scene, Gray recalled in a later interview, the women simply dusted themselves off, but the two husbands ..."were pale and clammy and weak in the knees" having watched their wives engage in a lengthy fistfight.