In his directorial debut, Ray Milland stars as Wes Steele, a gunfighter on the run for his life, accused of crimes he didn’t commit. Escaping a lynch mob, he stumbles into a small Arizona town where the local sheriff Gill Corrigan (Ward Bond) and his daughter Nadine (Mary Murphy) are quarantined for yellow fever. While the mob wait outside the cordon sanItaire , Steele’s only hope of proving his innocence lies with Nadine getting the evidence from the crooked president of the local bank.
cast
Ray Milland as Wes Steele
Mary Murphy as Nadine Corrigan
Ward Bond as Sheriff Gil Corrigan
Raymond Burr as Stanley
Lee Van Cleef as Clanton
Alan Hale Jr. as Jim Anderson
Arthur Space as Doctor Mason
Douglas Spencer as Henry Slocum
Thomas Browne Henry as Maybanks (as Thomas B. Henry)
Grandon Rhodes as Luke Joiner
MartÃn Garralaga as Ortega
Kim Spalding as Sam Hall
Howard Negley as Wilson (as Howard J. Negley)
crew
Director: Ray Milland
Script: John Tucker Battle, Mort Briskin
USA | 96 minutes | 1955
