Roger Corman's first picture as a
director, shot in nine days, using a plot that Corman would reuse
several times in his career: hardened criminals who are pardoned
so they can do the government's dirty work. In this case they are
Civil War prisoners, pardoned by the Confederacy so they can
carry out a secret and dangerous mission, traveling through
"Indian country." (Unfortunately, Roger had to make do with only
one Indian, who repeatedly leaps off the same rock.) John Lund is
the good guy, Touch (later Mike) Connors the bad guy, and sexy
Dorothy Malone is the love interest.
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