Posse from Hell

Four convicts escape from death row, ride into a town, kill four people including the sheriff and take a woman with them. Deputy Banner Cole tries to put together a posse to go after them. Most of the townspeople do not want to come; the ones who do either cannot handle a gun or want to come for the wrong reasons. The longer the pursuit drags on through the desert, the more the group falls apart from within. Herbert Coleman's film uses the classic pursuit shape of westerns of the early sixties, but does something unusual for its time: it also takes up how the town looks at the rescued woman after the assault she survived. Audie Murphy plays Banner Cole and John Saxon a bank clerk out from the city. Vic Morrow and Zohra Lampert are also in the cast.