While Director Hugo Fregonese starts the proceedings at a brisk pace, it becomes obvious that both he and the three scenarists... intended to fashion a medium-sized Duel in the Sun, piling on the same contrived tawdriness.

The plot is hackneyed, the playing unconvincing and the direction stereotyped.

Though smoothly directed by Mr. Hugo Fregonese, it has little new to offer on the hoof situation.

Get that horse out of the corral, pardner, saddle him, and start riding hard, cause we're in the middle of another of those settlers- versus-cattlemen oat operas.