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The only law I believe in is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. And I was discharged for a wound that didn't matter.
Even with Billy Joe being an all-out bad dude, Sarah has a secret that she has not been toldm and it may be too late before another murder occurs around Dodge City. However, the real story has not been told. This does not set well with Major and Seth as they wait outside the jail waiting for the opportunity to kill the convict.
The Marshal takes Billy Joe to jail before getting word that Billy Joe has to go back to Federal prison before being tried on the murder of Ham. There was already a wanted poster out on him for the escape and the killing of the guard, but Billy Joe protests his innocence of it all, reminding Matt that it's his duty to protect him from the would-be lyncher. While Matt and the convict are talking, Major Owens and his son Seth come riding up claiming that Billy Joe shot and killed Ham Owens (the Major's other son) and abused Ham's wife, Sarah. Just so happens he finds Billy Joe with broken ribs after being thrown from his horse. The very next day, Marshal Dillon gets a wanted poster with Billy Joe's picture and goes out to find the convict. When Sarah's husband, Ham, winds up dead, Billy Joe finds himself accused by the family of the murder, and the father Major threatens to administer "justice" to Billy Joe himself Army officer, and resented by his equally cowed brother Seth (Ed Nelson). He arrives at a farmhouse near Dodge where he diverts a pretty woman named Sarah Owens (Nancy Gates) who is the unhappy wife of Ham Owens (William Phipps) a sodden man dominated by his father Major Emerson Owens (Conrad Nagel), a retired former U.S. Billy Joe Arlen (Andrew Prine) escapes from federal custody, leaving his guard dead and his fellow prisoner dying. A military prison escapee shows up in Dodge.Ī charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.