Fighting Man of the Plains

Classic western from 1949. Scott plays Jim Dancer, one of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. During one raid, Dancer kills the man he holds responsible for the death of his brother. The dead man was innocent, and Dancer becomes a fugitive. Months later, he resurfaces, under a stolen identity, as the Marshal of a lawless Kansas town. With the help of another social outcast, Jesse James (Dale Robertson), Dancer begins to restore order. But the crooked District Attorney isn't overly fond of the new Marshal and his law abiding methods and Dancer's past comes back to haunt him...