Across the Sierras

Mitch Carew is released from prison and returns to Arroyo intending to get revenge on "Wild Bill" Hickok and Dan Woodworth, who were responsible for his conviction six years earlier. Carew meets Woodworth on the street and cold-bloodily shoots him through the heart. Hickok, who has been away for some time, comes to town with plans to settle down, and learns of the killing and that his old friend, Larry Armstrong, has joined the outlaw's gang. Hickok rides to the gang's hideout, finds Larry alone but can not convince him to leave Carew. When Hickok rides away, Carew, hiding in ambush, takes a shot at him and hits his hat. Spinning around, Hickok sees Larry with a drawn gun, and fires at him, unaware of Carew's presence. He rides back and finds that his dead friend's gun has not been fired, and he throws Larry across his saddle, and escapes the outlaw's ambush. In town, his fiancée, Anne Woodworth denounces the "code of the west" and Hickok agrees to hang up his guns. Carew later rides into town and announces that he is looking for Hickok. The latter, following a bitter argument with Anne, feels he can not refuse to accept Carew's challenge, and straps on his guns and goes to meet Carew.

A quite good Bill Elliott western who as Wild Bill Hickok has a few dilemmas; trying to stop his friend going down the outlaw route and the other is falling for the beautiful Luana Walters who wants him to hang up his guns and not face the bad guy Carew. These elements instills some good drama, eschewing the juvenile strain evident in this 60 mins westerns. There's some good twists, and tense shootout finale.