Sure there are elements we've seen before but there's enough novel touches and pretty good performances to make this worthwhile. Glenn Ford is an earnest hard-working laborer with good qualifications for mining out of luck - till he careers into a small town where opportunities seem to abound. There is a nice contrast between the workaday Mike Lambert (Ford) and the more upper-class Steve Price (Barry Sullivan) who has risen to the post of bank manager by dubious means; the former wholesome, the latter dastardly. Janis Carter is the shining light here and the lightning rod for men and money - who schemes, deceives and proves deadly! This is a worthy entry and will satisfy you on a nice quiet night in.