The Tall Stranger

In "The Tall Stranger," Joel McCrea stars as Ned Bannon, a former Union soldier who finds himself caught in the middle of a bitter land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders heading to California. A Union soldier returns home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders. The plot is driven by Bannon's encounter with cattle rustlers, who leave him for dead before he joins the wagon train to help them settle their claim on disputed land.