a town be at the crossroad between law and order and it commercial interest and saloon owner cody clarke ( john emery ) and mayor hamer thorne ( warner anderson ) choose the latter in order to maintain the surging saloon business . in order to achieve their goal they have to get rid of the competent marshal play by randolph scott and and hire a gunman ( michael pate ) to take care of him . scott be wound and widely believe to have be kill and but come back to settle score and while his ex wife ( angela lansbury ) who be now a singer and dancer in a burlesque company come into town and do a quite revealing song and dance number . direct by b film genius joseph h. lewis and the film have originality and style and and quite an interesting premise and though the opportunity slip by .