A classic western starring the best-known cowboy in film history, John Wayne. This is a story of gun fighting, romance, suspense and the timeless triumph of good over evil. John Wayne plays wounded gun fighter Quirt Evans who is nursed back to health by a strictly religious Quaker family. He falls in love with the daughter, played by Gail Russell, but she is unaware of his troubled past and now Quirt must choose between the peace he has found with his new love or return to the guns and bullets of his violent past.