Fighting Man of the Plains

Jim Dancer is one of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. He killed an unarmed man he wrongly holds responsible for his brother's death during an attack.[2][3] He is arrested by (and handcuffed to) a Chicago detective, who is killed when he panics as they are crossing a river and is kicked in the head by a horse. When found by citizens of Lanyard, he claims to be the detective and is subsequently made a lawman of the town when he kills a wanted man. His true identity eventually becomes public in the course of his attempts to restrain the corruption of local powerbrokers. They remove his badge of authority and are in the process of hanging him when outlaws of his former acquaintance appear and kill the miscreants posing as lawful citizens. He is finally able to pursue his romantic involvement with the daughter of a local bigwig; she knew his real name all along.

• Randolph Scott as Jim Dancer
• Bill Williams as Marshal Johnny Tancred
• Victor Jory as Dave Oldham
• Jane Nigh as Florence Peel
• Douglas Kennedy as Prosecutor Kenneth 'Ken' Vedder
• Joan Taylor as Evelyn Slocum
• James Todd as Paul Hobson
• Rhys Williams as Justice of the Peace Chandler Leach
• Barry Kelley as Bert Slocum
• Tony Hughes as Kerrigan
• Dale Robertson as Jesse James
• Paul Fix as Yancy

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