A ruthless young working-class Englishman takes a job in a North Country village controlled by a local millionaire. The young man resents the magnate's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, while having an affair with a Frenchwoman.. Though he regards his lover as a mere self-gratifying conquest, she takes their romance seriously enough to kill herself when he impregnates the daughter. Only as he leaves...

When Gina Meyers finds out that both of her parents were killed and that wealthy contractor Preston Randall is to blame, she vows to get even. Securing a job as a nanny to Preston's troubled stepson, Gina moves into Randall's house with plans to make him confess his part in the crime, but soon realizes that the ruthless Randall has very dark plans of his own.

"The outlaw Joe Lehigh (Broderick Crawford) a ruthless killer, hides out in a deserted ghost town outside Cimarron City. After kidnapping Marshall Jim Crown's Deputy, Lehigh vows to kill the Deputy unless Crown (Stuart Whitman) releases the outlaw's former gang from a prison train which will pass through the ghost town. The action unfolds when Marshall Crown, facing insurmountable odds, stands his ground to save the Deputy and stop Lehigh from ambushing...