The Hard Man

In this western, a Texas Ranger quits his job after he is chastised for bringing back so many dead outlaws. When he gets a deputy sheriff’s job, he soon finds himself mixed up in a range war against an avaricious rancher determined to have the whole range for himself. The deputy simultaneously begins an affair with the greedy rancher’s wife who wants him to kill her husband. In the end, she kills him herself., Guy Madison mixes with a power-hungry rancher. Fern: Valerie French. Rice: Lorne Greene. Dennison: Barry Atwater. Directed by Western-veteran George Sherman.