In Colorado after the Civil War the minds and resolutions were still hot. A somewaht cruel ex- colonel of the federal army became a local judge. He appointed a friend and ex-captain of his army as local marshal. However both started soon to quarrel one another in the first place because both loved the same woman who after a short time married the judge and in second place because the marshall strongly reproached the judge's behaviour to send to the gallows suspect criminals with weak or no proof, Everything evolves itself in several confrontations between them and their men including verbal and physy
ical disputes, shootings and chases. In the bottom of this there was also a previous conflict resultimg of the fact that territorial concessions belonging to men before the war while they were still civilians had been closed while they were in the war as conscripted soldiers and given to a mining corporation in the person of a local magnate. A not bad movie after all.