Sterling Hayden is a roughneck police captain on the hunt for a cop killer in this rarely screened potboiler, partially set on the US/Mexico border. Suspecting skittish baker Gene Barry as a key suspect in a series of police murders after witnessing a hair-trigger interrogation, Hayden tracks Barry to a border town and discovers the other side of this pious, family man. Gloria Grahame shines as Barry’s ill-treated, cantina-singing mistress, caught between two worlds.