George Montgomery is a Civil War Veteran and it shows in the black patch he wears over one eye. He's also the local sheriff and works hard at maintaining the peace. So it's a pleasant reunion when old army buddy Leo Gordon comes to town, and he invites him home to dinner with his wife, Lynne Cartwright; they had competed over her affections.
However, it's not so amusing when Gordon tries to rob the local bank and Montgomery stops him by shooting him. Suddenly, that's who he is: the man who shot his best friend in the back. That Miss Cartwright is one pretty woman, isn't she?
The growing disrespect for Montgomery threatens to break out into gunplay, and that's the story. It's the sort of late 1950s B Western that Montgomery was trapped in, one that wished to show how people would react; however, it showed the modern reaction, and so looks false and heavy-handed.
Montgomery was a good actor, but given the shrinking opportunities in Hollywood, it was either this profitable but unregarded oaters, or get out of town by sundown. Montgomery stayed, and continued to make westerns until 1969. In all, he appeared in 93 movies over more than half a century, dying in 2000 at age 84. But the grace he showed in what was to have been the movie that got him out of B Westerns permanently, THE BRASHER DOUBLOON, never led anywhere.
