Throughout most of the 1960s, Paramount Pictures gave producer A.C. Lyles free rein to produce a series of small-budget westerns (sometimes as many as four in a single year) featuring familiar faces and fading stars who greatly appreciated gainful employment. Hollywood veteran R.G. Springsteen directed this enjoyably unpretentious opus about a hard-bitten marshal (George Montgomery) and his hot-tempered deputy (Tab Hunter) who are temporarily turned against each other by one of the prisoners — a sly vixen played by Yvonne De Carlo — they are transporting cross-country. — Joe Leydon