The Bounty
A reclusive old man with an Apache bodyguard is wanted for a crime committed long ago.
A reclusive old man with an Apache bodyguard is wanted for a crime committed long ago.
When phony wanted posters put a price on the head of a retired Confederate officer, Colonel Sykes daughter summons Josh Randall to help keep the bounty hunters at bay.
While pursuing Carl Martin, Josh stops at a marshal's office where Carl is being held.
A decidedly different and dangerous assignment awaits Josh when he agrees to go into the Apache camp and compete in their contests to win the hand of a woman.
Josh is knocked out by a posse who wants his prisoner who is wanted for killing his step-daughter.
Thieves are lying in wait to ambush mail carriers and eventually Josh is hired to help insure that the mail will get through.
On Christmas Eve Randall receives his most daunting assignment yet from a young boy who has eight cents to pay bring in Santa Claus.
Following an Indian attack on their stagecoach that kills his prisoner,Randall and an eastern gentleman unaccustomed to the ways of the West must trek to safety across many long,hot miles of hostile Apache territory.
A sadistic pair of killers escape from prison who have no qualms about killing.
Josh is bushwhacked by bounty hunters in cahoots with the local sheriff,who now must keep Josh from blowing the whistle on their illegal but lucrative"bounty game".
Josh sets out to help a heartbroken wife locate her missing husband,but his mission of mercy meets with a resistant and tight-lipped townspeople.
Owing a favor to a sheriff,Josh agrees against better judgment to go to the lawless town of Bent Horn to bring back a man wanted for bank robbery and murder.
Josh is asked by Stacy Torrance for help when she finds a wanted poster under her door for her murder.
When Josh, as a favor to a friend, escorts a beautiful woman to a trial that could see her hang for killing her husband, her lover, and a foreman. She charms him to convince him she is innocent.
Randall brings a suspected murderer to Pot Hole, but fears the man won't receive a fair trial when he finds the townspeople in the grip of a power mad bully.
Randall is deputized to transport a ruthless killer to Tucson, but exchanges him for the nun kidnapped by the killer's gang.
A bounty hunter is not a hero in his own hometown, as Josh learns when he honors a dying friend's request to return his body to Cameron and the townspeople rush to judgment, believing Josh killed him for the reward money.
At the request of his friend's wife, Randall comes to assist and protect a war buddy in his bid for the town's mayoralty, quickly running afoul of the established political machine and its corrupt mayor and wanted sheriff.
A grieving father who is the town drunk hires Josh Randall with his last $30 to find his murdered son's body, but Josh's search for clues runs up against a cowardly conspiracy of silence.
Josh is resting in Benson when two bounty hunters bring in a man - the mayor - dead.