Year: 1959
Runtime: 85 mins
Language: English
Director: Nathan Juran
Teenager Eddie joins a gang that robs a bank, is caught and sentenced, but Marshal Ben intervenes and helps him become an honest citizen. Years later the same gang returns for another robbery; during their flight they kill Ben. Eddie alone can identify the shooter, yet he struggles between his new loyalty to the town and his old criminal ties.
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