A dirt farmer's past rides in like a storm—will his harvest survive the bullets?
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Acting
Robert Arthur's wide-eyed farmboy innocence sells the melodrama.
Direction
Kurt Neumann keeps this train moving at 73 minutes flat.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Robert Arthur
Lonny Kesh
Kathleen Nolan
Alice Rutherford (as Kathy Nolan)
Rhys Williams
Jud Collins
Rhodes Reason
Frank Banner
Dave O'Brien
Dock Lapman / Mr. Brown
Kelly Thordsen
Big Tobe Lapman
Mae Clarke
Jane Kesh
Robert Osterloh
Deputy Sheriff Mike Broome
William Challee
Tom Kesh
Carol Kelly
Hattie
Frank Sully
Carl Branch
Morris Ankrum
Mr. Rutherford
Dick Wessel
Hank Green (as Richard Wessel)
Dorothy Granger
Molly, Saloon Girl (as Dorothy Grainger)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kathleen Nolan was credited as 'Kathy Nolan' here, early in her career before she became a TV fixture on The Real McCoys.
This 1956 programmer arrived as TV was devouring the B-western market—notice the compressed runtime designed for eventual broadcast slots.
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