Build a movie plot around this: Who is Jake going to settle down with? Peggy Carter
We meet Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) as he sneaks into a jail and holds up the Marshal to spring Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark) who has been imprisoned for robbery and murder. With his aiding Clint in escaping from prison Jake has ostensibly paid back an old debt owed the man from the days when the two rode together as outlaws as members of Quantrill's Raiders, shooting their way into towns after the Civil War to rob and loot for their own profit. Jake has since used his abilities to good use becoming a Marshal himself, but satisfying his own personal justice by taking care of this one last thing before he settles down with the nubile young Peggy Carter (Patricia Owens) for domesticity. Clint still holds a grudge for Jake's running out on him with $20,000 dollars from their last bank job, from which Jake carries guilt from believing he had shot and killed a young boy. Clint gathers together a gang and kidnaps Peggy and coerces Jake into taking them to when he has hidden the money and during the trip the group runs into blood-thirsty Comanche Indians. Will any sense of loyalty emerge from Clint before Jake gives up the money, or will the savagery of the untamed Western landscape take its toll?