Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.
Bobby Darin
as Cal Wayne
Emily Banks
as Amy Martin
Leslie Nielsen
as Grant Evers
Donnelly Rhodes
as Joe Slade
Don Galloway
as Ward Kent
Frank McGrath
as Ned Martin
Michael Sarrazin
as Cord Decker
Don Dubbins
as Rod Sprague
William Phipps
as Frank Norton
Barbara Werle
as Leann
Johnny Seven
as Loop
William Mims
as Ed Scovie
