A western in glorious two color cine color directed by Lewis Foster and the team of Pine and Thomas, producers of Those Red heads from Seattle.The print on the Blu- ray was about the same as the broadcast version. It was remastered from the original two color negatives and positive prints. . John Payne plays and ex confederate soldier with an attitude that he was on the wrong side ,deciding to take on the job in El Paso to have a judge ,up there , to sign some legal papers,since his character was a lawyer. When he goes to El Paso his is confronted by Mary Beth Hues ,playing a pick pocket.That's when he discovers that El Paso is corrupt. Dick Foran noted for playing good guys ,plays a rotten sheriff.,but, it's Sterling Hayden that runs the town..John discovers that that his girl friend ,played by Gail Russell , lives in El Paso only to be the daughter of the judge. He discovers why she has turned him down in in proposal, her father is an alcoholic and the corrupt council keeps getting him drunk so that hey can win against the populous.Eduardo Noriega plays the Mexican who lives across the Rio Grand who rescues john from an assault by the corrupt city council. So John decide to stay in El Paso to practice law..Soon when he gets a rancher and his wife and kid ,portrayed by Arthur Space , Katherine Craig, Robert Ellis,who was getting kicked out of his ranch for forgetting to pay his property taxes while he was a confederate fighting the civil war,not guilty after the sobering the judge up ,with the help of Gabby Hayes, played by Henry Hull,Sterling Hayden and the rest of the city council murders the rancher and his wife.John decides to quit lawyering and to use vigilante force ,with the help of the other ex confederates as a means of stopping the thugs ending up going after some of the wrong people.This was a medium budget film that began in 1948.Pine and Thomas was noted for low budget film making. This was a bigger budget ,except for the fact they uses Cine color instead of Technicolor..The Blu- ray includes commentary by film historian John Roan.The cinecolor cinematography was lush.Worth collecting ,from kino lorber.