The Elder boys ride back to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a good known cowboy gunner and problem follows him wherever he rides. The boys try to return their ranch from the city's gunsmith who won it from their father in a cheat fight with which he was shortly killed there after but not before getting through the problems that come with the Elders name.CAST
JOHN WAYNE (JOHN ELDER), DEAN MARTIN (TOM ELDER), MARTHA HYER (MARY GORDON), MICHAEL ANDERSON Jr (BUD ELDER), EARL HOLLIMAN (MATT ELDER), JEREMY SLATE (BEN LATTA), JAMES GREGORY (MORGAN HASTINGS), PAUL FIX (SHERIFF BILLY WILSON), GEORGE KENNEDY (CURLEY).