Not a particularly memorable western but it's skillfully if routinely directed by Ray Enright. A sheepman (Errol Flynn) ventures into cattle country in Montana where sheepherders are shot on sight. He enters the town under the guise of being a peddler where he falls in love with a cattlewoman (Alexis Smith) who runs the town with an iron fist. With a little duplicity (like not telling her he's a sheepman), he gets into her graces. But it's only a matter of time before there's a showdown between the cattlemen and the sheepherders. The three strip Technicolor lensing is handsomely shot by Oscar winning Karl Freund with Calabasas, California subbing for Montana and the redhaired Smith looks as fetching in Technicolor as Maureen O'Hara or Rhonda Fleming. It's also notable for the strong female protagonist that Smith plays, rare in a western, though the film lets her down with its silly final clinch. With S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, Douglas Kennedy and Dorothy Adams.
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