Rory Calhoun is "Martin Penalosa" a man found guilty of murder who is sentenced to serve his time in the army. It doesn't take him long to realise that this isn't the life for him, and so he absconds and joins a band of banditos where, alongside his now pregnant girlfriend (a smouldering and sultry Gene Tierney), he tries to start a whole new - and eventful - life for himself as freedom fighter "Val Verde". Richard Boone always excelled as the nasty piece of work in these kind of films, and here - as the pursuing "Salinas" - who was his commanding officer before he deserted - he is on good form as a newly appointed police chief whose whole mission in life is now to nail Calhoun's slats to the mast! It does run a bit to language - and pretty clunky language at that, but there is enough action to keep this moving along well, some decent chemistry on the romance front before quite a fitting conclusion. This could have been better with a bigger star - Calhoun was always just a bit wooden, but it is still well worth watching - if only for Boone, Tierney and some lovely Argentinean cinematography.