The same script, derived from a novel by Clifton Adams and written by Daniel Mainwaring, was used four years later for Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958). Silvermine Productions made the original, which was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures. Allied both produced and distributed the new film itself in 1958.
At the Post Office was a wood box in the back of the store with .44WCF marked on it. .44 Winchester Center Fire which came out in 1873.
Prologue: "There is one dark and grim page in Texas history; it concerns the three years 1872 to 1873, during which Texans suffered and smouldered under the carpetbag administration of Governor E. J. Davis."
"Texas law was administered and enforced by a despotic organization called the Texas State Police--known as the 'Bluebellies.' Constitutional rights were ignored--such as the right to keep and bear arms, the right to have public meetings, private property rights and most of the other expressions of human dignity and freedom of which Texas has always been so rightfully proud."
"Naturally, they did something about it..."
"Texas law was administered and enforced by a despotic organization called the Texas State Police--known as the 'Bluebellies.' Constitutional rights were ignored--such as the right to keep and bear arms, the right to have public meetings, private property rights and most of the other expressions of human dignity and freedom of which Texas has always been so rightfully proud."
"Naturally, they did something about it..."
Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef would work together on screen again two years later in the Roger Corman ultra-low-budget sci-fi cult film It Conquered the World (1956).