**The only thing a man can trust is his gun in this gripping Ralph
Compton western....
**
Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is
taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks. While Grady
Haskell sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie, the
ruffian pushes all feelings aside for a potentially big score.
When Haskell's bold daylight bank job in prosperous Bakersfield turns
bloody, Charlie attempts to thwart the heist--and ends up the only gang
member caught alive. Sentenced to swing, Charlie makes a daring escape,
determined to track down Haskell and prove his innocence.
But with a mysterious marshal and a party of angry townsmen hot on his
heels, Charlie must track the killer thieves through a vicious winter
storm in the High Sierras--before the seething posse gets the chance to
hang him high.
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