Mike Whitney and Emory Parsons are business partners in a land estate business. Only Mike is killed during a hold up. Emory managed to kill the gunman.
His widow Fran Whitney is not happy. She thinks that Emory arranged the hold up. Why go to their office when there was a bank next door.
Emory's younger brother Boyd was conveniently out of the way as he went to the bank to deposit some money.
Clay Culhane decides to help out the widow. She wants to inspect the books of the business, certain that Emory was cheating her husband.
In a dispute, Clay ends up shooting Emory Parsons dead and Fran is not a reliable witness.
Lon Gillis (Hampton Fancher) gets more to do as the deputy as Marshal Gib Scott needs to leave town. He needs to decide whether to let Clay out of jail in order to clear his name.
There is a lot of story here, it is almost noirish with a femme fatale.
His widow Fran Whitney is not happy. She thinks that Emory arranged the hold up. Why go to their office when there was a bank next door.
Emory's younger brother Boyd was conveniently out of the way as he went to the bank to deposit some money.
Clay Culhane decides to help out the widow. She wants to inspect the books of the business, certain that Emory was cheating her husband.
In a dispute, Clay ends up shooting Emory Parsons dead and Fran is not a reliable witness.
Lon Gillis (Hampton Fancher) gets more to do as the deputy as Marshal Gib Scott needs to leave town. He needs to decide whether to let Clay out of jail in order to clear his name.
There is a lot of story here, it is almost noirish with a femme fatale.