Phil Karlson

A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison. Gambler Ron Lewis wins the jackpot but is ambushed later on the street outside. In self defense he kills a cop and is sentenced to four years of prison. He vows to make a bloody revenge on the mayor and the police commissioner. —Mattias Thuresson

Confederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased by Union troops with both parties oblivious to the fact that peace was declared. During the Civil War Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way they kill a Union courier who has a message that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the Captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end. —Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is a ex-con delivering flowers to the local businesses in Kansas City. When disgruntled ex-cop Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster) cases a local payroll armored car for a holdup he takes into account the schedule of Rolfe and his deliveries as he plans his robbery. Foster contacts three crooks separately to help with the crime while keeping his own identity secret with a mask he blackmails them with past crimes and a guarantee of a $300 thousand-dollar payout for each. Pulling in Peter Harris (Jack Elam), Boyd Kane (Neville Brand), and Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef), Foster as Mr. Big pulls off the robbery of the armored car right after one of Rolfe's deliveries by using a duplicate flower van. Rolfe is arrested and brutally interrogated by the police. Eventually cleared when the police find the duplicate robbery vehicle Rolfe is determined to clear his name and sets out to find the crew that set him up. He tracks Harris to a gambling joint in Tijuana Mexico and takes on his identity after Harris is killed and travels to a resort town of Barados Mexico to confront the rest of the crooks. Once there he meets Foster's daughter Helen (Coleen Gray) who has come to surprise her father. Rolfe and Helen develop an immediate attraction for each other and Foster attempts to keep them apart, as he knows Joe is an ex-con and is impersonating Harris. As the time for splitting up the money draws near Kane and Tony are aware Rolfe is not Harris and a dangerous confrontation with Mr. Big appears inevitable.