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On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.
Terwijl hij met de trein onderweg is om een lerares aan te trekken, wordt de voormalige outlaw Link Jones betrokken bij een treinoverval door de bende van de oude Dock Tobin. Na de overval blijven Link, de voluptueuze saloon-entertainster Billie Ellis en de onfortuinlijke gokker Sam Beasley in een onherbergzaam gebied achter. Het trio vindt onderweg een verlaten ranch, maar deze ranch blijkt de schuilplaats te zijn van Tobin en zijn bende. Tobin wil Link weer in zijn bende opnemen, maar de andere bendeleden vertrouwen hem niet. Link gaat akkoord om samen met Tobin en zijn bende een bank te overvallen in de hoop i...
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n elk geval het leven van Billie en Sam te redden. Onderweg kunnen echter conflicten tussen Link en de bendeleden niet uitblijven.
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Anthony Mann's final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man's baser instincts, rising in intensity to the level of Shakespearean tragedy. The film begins as seemingly naive Link (Gary Cooper) leaves his family to take a train to Fort Worth. Also on the train is saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London), who is compelled by con man Sam Beasley (Arthur O'Connell) to cheat Link out of his money. But the con comes to naught when the nefarious Dock Tobin (Lee J. Cobb) and his gang rob the train. Link takes Billie and Beasley to Tobin's cabin, where it is revealed the mild-mannered Link is Tobi...
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n's nephew and a former member of his cutthroat gang. Dock Tobin draws up a plan to rob a bank which the outlaws find agreeable, but they're reluctant to have Link rejoin their group. Soon it becomes apparent why they feel this way; when Link rejoins his old gang, his shy demeanor falls away and his outlaw instincts rise to the surface.
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