Several Confederate soldiers steal a Union payroll at a small train station only to learn afterwards that the war has ended. They decide to keep the money anyway and split the loot and go their separate ways.
The Reno Brothers Vance (Richard Egan), Brett (William Campbell) and Ray (James Drury) head for their home and find their mother Martha (Mildred Dunnock) and their younger brother Clint (Elvis Presley) waiting for them as well as a young woman named Cathy (Debra Paget) also waiting.
Cathy is the woman Vance was going to marry until they received word he had died. Cathy then married Clint and they must now tell Vance, who accepts the news with a slight bit of bitterness and understanding.
All seems well until Vance's strong feeling for Cathy start to come back and this causes a bit of strife which is then made only worse when the Fed's show up looking for the stolen money.
Vance and his brothers deny having the money but are arrested anyway. Their other comrades in the robbery led by Mike Gavin (Neville Brand) cause even more trouble and everything seems to fall apart.
Clint turns on his brothers and helps Gavin and his plans to steal all the money from the Reno brothers. Clint pays for his turncoat behavior at the end of the movie.
This was the first movie Elvis made and you can see that he does have acting chops and he does a great job here. The title tune was and still is a HUGE smash. It was great to see this on Blu-ray and of course, I recommend it to any Elvis fan and also to western fans as it is an excellent movie with a great cast which also includes Ken Clark and Barry Coe.
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
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