In this Civil War-era Western, Rhonda Fleming plays Candace Bronson, a titian-haired dance-hall beauty who's secretly a courier for the crumbling Confederacy -- and the lone alibi witness for murder suspect Gil Kyle (Glenn Ford). Needing Candace's testimony to beat the trumped-up charge, the apolitical Gil accompanies her on a perilous journey through enemy territory to deliver a vital communiqué about a Union gold shipment.