"This is raw country... gun country," grumbles ornery freight magnate Beau Santee. And sure enough, the irons start blazin' when lawman-on-the-lam Dan Beattie ambles into the sleepy town of Sundown. Beattie's looking for war buddy Curt Warren - but finds only a beaten, broken man who's terrified of big boss Beau. No stranger to danger, Beattie poses as a reviled railroad agent and dallies with Warren's dame to dig up the dirt on Santee.