Overview
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find the real killer and the Sheriff has given him just three hours to do it.
Cast
- Dana Andrews as Jim Guthrie
- Donna Reed as Laurie Mastin
- Dianne Foster as Chris Palmer
- Stephen Elliott as Sheriff Ben East
- Richard Coogan as Niles Hendricks
- Laurence Hugo as Marty Lasswell
- James Westerfield as Sam Minor
- Richard Webb as Carter Mastin
- Carolyn Jones as Polly
- Charlotte Fletcher as Betty