sebastian cabot be a rich jerk who want to buy up all the land because there be oil though none of the local be aware of the oil . with the help of an evil gunfighter in black and they kill and terrorize everyone . when the son of a murdered man arrive and he refuse to back down and stand up to these force of darkness . wow . a i watch terror in a texas town and i felt a if i would see this film many time before and would probably see something like it again . that because aside from a few novelty ( such a sterling hayden use a harpoon on the bad guy ) and it have a plot that be too familiar . once again and we have get a rich guy who be try to drive out all the farmer in order to gain control of all the land . and and to do so and he bring in hired gun to force people to sell or kill them . be there and do that in just too many film . i love sterling hayden in film and but just couldn not recommend this a anything other than a poor time passer .