Audie Murphy's last film only features him for around 20 minutes or so but it's not a bad one for him to go out on - he produced it, the director was Budd Boetticher, Murphy gets to play Jesse James (who he played in Kansas Raiders years ago), it's a decent story, Victor Jory does a cameo as Judge Roy Bean.
The star is some guy called Richard Lapp in the role that Murphy would have played 20 years earlier - a fresh faced kid who is deadly with a gun and keen to make his reputation. He decides to become a bounty hunter but winds up in marriage with a pretty young thing, meets Jesse James, and gets in totally over his hand.
The film feels cut-about and too short, or missing something, the two leads are poor (she is pretty) and it's got that late 60s feel where it feels like a late 60s TV show. But it's consistently interesting, and Murphy really shines in his small role.
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