 The screenplay concerns a band of reprobate outlaws who flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town.In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and flees into the desert.Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman called "Mike" (Anne Baxter) and her prospector grandfather (played by James Barton).