The Man from Bitter Ridge is a 1955 American Western film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Lex Barker, Mara Corday and Stephen McNally.

A special investigator, Jeff Carr (Lex Barker), is deployed to the cattle town of Tomahawk to collect evidence on a number of stagecoach holdups and killings.

The town’s leading banker-politician Ranse Jackman (John Dehner) and his gunslinging brothers resent Carr’s inquiries, and blame the robberies on the upland sheepherders, led by Alec Black (Stephen McNally).

[2]Film critic Dana M. Reemes reports “without doubt, The Man From Bitter Ridge is one of Lex Barker’s best performances.”[3] Describing The Man From Bitter Ridge as “a superb example of its genre and period,” biographer and film critic Dana M. Reemes notes actor Mara Corday’s merits: The aficionado of fifties popular culture will be highly entertained by Miss Corday’s wonderfully fashionable western attire.

Though supposedly the daughter of impoverished sheep ranchers, she sports the latest in ladies’ riding gear, her orange-red lipstick in perfect color coordination with her neckerchief.