A troubled saddle tramp with a penchant for drinking away his pain inherits a ranch from the man who may have been his father. Coming back to the lands of his youth leads him back into the arms of an old flame as well as into the fists some old rivals. As it turns out the ranch is deeply in debt and if they can't drive the cattle to Santa Fe within a week.

A black Philadelphia homicide detective reluctantly assists a white sheriff in solving a murder in 1960s North Carolina.

When Miss Vicki's rich father dies, her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

One of the final cycle of classical westerns of the mid to late Fifties which culminated in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. McCrea plays the legendary Wyatt Earp whose reluctant acceptance of the role of town marshal brings him into conflict with cattle interests and the town's businessmen.