When John gets the note, he rides off alone to the canyon, leaving the vigilantes behind. Meanwhile, Ballard's gang robs the gold from the town bank and sets off for the canyon. Jim sees them ride off, abandoning him, and goes to the hideout, where he frees Mary, who tells him she overheard Ballard saying John is his brother and left Jim behind before he could discover that. Knowing a trap awaits John at the canyon, Jim rides off to the canyon while Mary rides off to get the vigilantes. Jim arrives at the canyon, and as John rides in, yells to warn him of the trap and stalls the waiting outlaws in a shootout. Jim joins John and tells him they are brothers, and the two try to escape on horseback. Their path intersects with Ballard in a wagon with the stolen gold, just as the vigilantes also arrive and engage the outlaws in a mobile shootout on horseback. John jumps aboard the wagon and fights Ballard, jumping off just before the wagon careens down an embankment, killing Ballard. John rushes back to Jim, who was shot in the action. Jim dies in John's arms, poignantly rueful of his bad ways. John tells Mary he is disbanding the group and leaving to become a California rancher. Mary kisses him as she calls him a "muttonhead", their pet name for each other, and it is apparent that she will be going with him. Cast John Wayne as John Wyatt Sheila Bromley as Mary Gordon Frank McGlynn Jr. as Jim Wyatt Jim Farley as Lafe Gordon (herd owner) Jack Curtis as Whit Ballard Bradley Metcalfe as John Wyatt as a child Dickie Jones as Jim Wyatt as a child Mary MacLaren as Ma Wyatt Yakima Canutt as Red (Ballard henchman) Hank Bell as Mark Wyatt Glenn Strange as Carter (singing rider) See also John Wayne filmography References External links } 1935 films 1935 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Robert N. Bradbury Films shot in Lone Pine, California Republic Pictures films Revisionist Western (genre) films 1930s American films