Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.

Western

Characters

John Lund

Lance Horton

Brian Donlevy

Charles Quantrill

Audrey Totter

Kate Quantrill / Kitty McCoy

Joan Leslie

Sally Maris

Ben Cooper

Jesse James

James Brown

Frank James

Nina Varela

Mayor Delilah Courtney

Ellen Corby

First Townswoman

Fern Hall

Second Woman

Minerva Urecal

Mrs. Stuart

Jim Davis

Cole Younger

Reed Hadley

Bitterroot Bill Maris

Ann Savage

Glenda

Virginia Christine

Jenny

Marilyn Lindsey

Rose

Gordon Jones

Yankee Sergeant

Nacho Galindo

John Pablo

Frank Ferguson

Bartender

Richard Crane

Yankee Lieutenant (uncredited)

Carl Pitti

Bourreau - Hangman (uncredited)