This Audie Murphy western suffers from low budget, slack handling, incredibly intrusive (and not needed) narration, but does have a good story: a gang of outlaws break out prisoners, get them to lead their hold ups, then kill said prisoners to collect the reward. Audie goes undercover to bust them, during the course of which the baddies kill an innocent deputy and a fellow agent tracking Audie in a scene right out of T Men (which the writer of this clearly seems to have seen - the narration is even reminiscent).
Audie is given a sexier image here - in his opening scene he's kissing some hot tramp whose boyfriend interrupts, he sexually harasses the female lead after dark (in one of those this-is-supposed-to-be-charming scenes). It doesn't suit him. He's better with the bang-bang. De Forest Kelly gives the support cast some class as one of the main baddies.
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