A drifter (Henry Fonda) riding the boxcars on the railway gets off in a small railroad town looking for a girl (Madlyn Rhue). When he asks about her, the townspeople get nervous and refuse to talk or they threaten him but when she turns up dead, he is accused of the killing. This pedestrian western was directed by Don Siegel (
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS)
, who clearly wasn't interested in the material and who can blame him? It's negligible stuff and there wasn't much anyone could do with the material. Fonda goes through the motions and the other performances range from good (Dan Duryea) to bad (Michael Parks). The generic score is by Leonard Rosenman. With Anne Baxter (who looks great), Sal Mineo (wasted as a hired gunslinger), Lloyd Bochner, Bernie Hamilton and Michael Burns.
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