Marshal Thornton Wilde takes delivery of two prisoners one of whom is the son he hasn't seen for 20 years! Then, just hours later, there is a jail break with the marshal and the town drunk in hot pursuit. Gradually a complicated plot unfolds involving a series of bank robberies and a Mexican peasant with lofty ambitions.Somebody is desperate to keep Wilde and the Texas Rangers away from El Paso but it is there that the amazing truth is revealed and justice meted out.

While Marshal Thornton Wilde and the town drunk are in hot pursuit of two prisoners who have made a jailbreak, a complicated plot unfolds involving a series of bank robberies and a Mexican peasant with lofty ambitions.