The Showdown (1950)

Shadrach Jones exTexas State Policeman has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them At the saloonhotel run by Adelaide Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man He takes the job of trailherd boss to find the killer McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer Shadrachs hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated