Gunman Sterling Hayden rides into a small frontier town in search of his mother's killer. William Bishop is a wealthy ranch owner who has married Karin Booth, Hayden's former girl friend. Hayden has reason to suspect that Bishop is the man he is gunning for. When the town marshal is shot down, Hayden takes his place, which establishes once and for all who the real hero is in this film. It is superfluous to add that this 1955 Top Gun bears no relationship to the 1985 stud-in-the-skies adventure film of the same name.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide