The Vanquished is a 1953 American Western film directed by Edward Ludwig, written by Lewis R. Foster, Winston Miller and Frank L. Moss, and starring John Payne, Jan Sterling, Coleen Gray, Lyle Bettger, Willard Parker, Roy Gordon and John Dierkes.

[1][2][3] The war over, civil administrator Roger Hale has become the scourge of the Southern town of Galeston, exacting his own kind of justice.

Rose's greed leads her to purchase a nearby plantation with Hale's ill-gotten gains and offer to cut Rock in on their profits.

Rock is shot and reveals his true purpose to Jane, who forgives him and threatens Rose with a pair of scissors.

[6] By June the film's title had been changed to The Lion's Share and then Violence at Thunder Run.