Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others disply only revulsion.
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Universal's music director, Joseph Gershenson, reused the music scores from This Island Earth (1955) and It Came from Outer Space (1953) in this picture's music score, much to the chagrin of the original uncredited composers Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein, Henry Mancini, and Irving Gertz. By 1961, they were all out of their old 1950s Universal Studios contracts, and only heard about this when they got notices in the mail from the Musicians' Union. They would have appreciated checks in the mail even more, but there were none, since their old contracts considered all their studio work as 'works for hire' and this precluded them from getting any further royalties from their work. Universal continued this practice until a lawsuit from the Musicians' Union stopped it in 1966.
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Last film for Allan Lane
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Allan Lane later became the voice of Mr. Ed the horse in the sitcom Mr. Ed starring Allan Young.
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The direction Audie Murphy is directed is "North" but shadows make this unlikely if not impossible.
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Austria: Die gnadenlosen Vier
Brazil: Quadrilha do Inferno
Canada (English title): Posse from Hell
Denmark: Dødsridtet
Spain: Justicieros del infierno
Finland: Lännen nopein ase
Finland: Neljä armotonta miestä
France: Les cavaliers de l'enfer
Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title): To apospasma tis Kolaseos
Italy: La squadra infernale
Mexico: Cadenas de odio
Portugal: Quadrilha do inferno
Romania: Potera din iad
Sweden: Djävulsritten
West Germany: Die gnadenlosen Vier
Yugoslavia (Serbian title): Potera iz pakla