The Silver Whip is a 1953 American Western film directed by Harmon Jones and starring Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun and Robert Wagner.
[2] Cocky young drifter Jess Harker (Robert Wagner) wants to be a driver on the stagecoach's main line, just like Race Crim (Dale Robertson), his hero.
Jess is ordered to return home by an angry Bowen, but he joins the posse led by Sheriff Tom Davisson (Rory Calhoun) and is eventually deputized instead.
Jess is ready to ride again with Kathy (Kathleen Crowley) going with him while the sheriff is pleased that his friend Race is recovering from the gunshot wound to the chest.
[3][4] The film was announced in August 1952 as Stage to Silver City with Wagner, Robertson and Calhoun attached and Jesse L. Lasky Jr. writing the script.