Toughest Man in Arizona is a 1952 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen, written by John K. Butler, and starring Vaughn Monroe, Joan Leslie, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Jean Parker and Harry Morgan.

The army officer notices the crickets stopped chirping, a sign that the Indian attack is imminent.

The Indians attack and the army officer tells Mrs. Kimber to take the 2 children and head down the gulley.

Landry and his prisoner Girard arrive at the wagon train the next day and to bury the dead.

Kimber recognizes the picture of his wife in the newspaper as a survivor of the Apache attack.

Jim Hadlock visits and suggests they send Girard out of town sooner than later.

Landry writes a telegram for Jim to send, requesting the transfer to Prescott.

Matt and Mary discuss her moving to the local boarding house and taking a job at the newspaper.

Frank decides to steal the gold and agrees to give Verne 1/4 of the haul.

Mary tells him she needs to get past the idea that Verne died to save her life, although she may not have loved him.

Matt goes to the sheriff’s office and Jim tells him that the Girards stole the silver shipment.

She admits Frank had the wires tapped and identifies Verne Kimber as the one intercepting the telegrams.

Parts of the film were shot in Snow Canyon State Park in Utah.