The mouth-watering Western combination of James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea and Brandon de Wilde doesn't quite produce the fireworks you'd expect in this railroad oater, in spite of Murphy doing well with his unusual casting as a good-bad guy. The treatment sorely misses the touch of Stewart's normal Western director, Anthony Mann, who refused to do the film after reading the script. Even so, it remains a workmanlike action picture, with Stewart contributing his usual double dose of sincerity, and Duryea just walking away with the film as the blink-eyed, double-dyed Whitey Harbin.

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