Plot

The wealthy Joe kills his brother and then weds the widow, Gertie. Gertie's son, the taciturn Hawk, has a hunch that something is rotten and hires a theatre troupe to perform a play rewritten to provoke Joe into admitting his guilt.

In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother's widow, Gertie. Gertie's son, Hawk, decides that something's rotten in this state of affairs and thinks about taking action—dinky-4 of Minneapolis