Someone has killed a local car mechanic, and everything points to his
in-law August (Stanley Adams), who never got along with the man,
especially after his sister to whom the mechanic was married, had died.
Furthermore, the two were seen fighting only hours before the killing. In
a seemingly unrelated story, a harmless young man living on his father's
money, Dillon (Myron Healey), has taken a room at the local resort, and
somehow he seems to be attracting trouble like a magnet - so much so that
Frank (John Bromfield), sheriff of Cochise, has to intervene more than
once. Eventually, though, Frank finds out that Dillon is not the harmless
good-for-nothing everybody has been taking him for but a dangerous
criminal on the run, whom Frank only manages to arrest after a wild
shoot-out - and in the end it's also revealed that it was Dillon who shot
the mechanic, not August. Very routine crime drama that could
have been greatly improved if it hadn't given all of its plottwists (like
that it was really Dillon who killed the mechanic) away way too soon. As
it is it's jut a boring exercise of ... of nothing in particular,
actually.
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