""Robert Mitchum plays a jaded Civil War hero who`s pursued into the barren frontier wilderness by inner demons from his childhood past and real killers in the present. His passion for Teresa Wright who plays his stepsister leads to a fatal gunfight with her brother. Embittered and intent on seeking revenge on their wedding night Wright marries Mitchum but the arrival of a mysterious stranger out to settle an old score with Mitchum sidetracks her and leads to a startling climax of treachery murder and shocking revelations.""