I was expecting something more like Scooby Doo. A Secret Service agent in 1869 travels to a small town looking for stolen government gold. The thieves would have some trouble disposing of it because the gold bars are marked as U.S. government property which means they'd have to be melted down. An itinerant gambler comes to town, is falsely accused of cheating, tried and executed. Then his ghost apparently starts killing people, shooting them somehow. And, at the scene of one such murder, a .45 caliber rimfire shell casing is left behind, which doesn't really make sense since he shot him with a revolver and there was no reason to reload right there on the spot, but what do I know.
With Jason Robards, Sr, long before his son's career took off and Victor Kilian who looked old even in 1949. He played Mary Hartman's grandfather on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and was the old guy who lost his wallet full of money on The Brady Bunch.
A disappointment even for an old western. Maybe it had an important lesson about capital punishment but they didn't dwell on it. No one was really concerned that they executed an innocent man even when they thought his ghost was killing people.
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