Five Guns to Tombstone

In Tombstone, outlaw Ike Garvey enrages businessman George Landon by demanding seventy percent of his profits. In retaliation, Landon directs his henchmen, Mel Dixon, Rusty Kolloway and Hoke, to break Matt Wade out of prison and bring him to their hideout at the Snakeskin Mine. There, Landon informs Matt that he can earn half a million dollars robbing a Wells Fargo stage, but only if he can convince his brother Billy, a brilliant, reformed outlaw, to join them. Billy currently lives on a struggling ranch with Matt's teenage son Ted, and has just learned that he must sell his herd to pay off the ranch loan, which will leave them penniless once again. Despite the bad news, Billy's fiancée, Arlene, wants to wed the next Sunday, and offers to sell her shop to help pay off the debt. At the ranch, Matt has arrived and embraced Ted, who is thrilled to see his father. When Billy refuses to become embroiled in the robbery, Ted, convinced that breaking the law is the only way to save his father, agrees to join Matt. Matt returns to the mine and informs the others that he plans to follow Billy the next morning when he goes to the bank to repay his loan, then rob the bank and frame Billy, forcing him to join them. In the morning, they carry out their plan and bring Billy to the mine, where Ted is waiting. Out of eyesight of Ted and the gang, Billy punches Matt, and as they struggle, Matt's gun discharges, killing him. Ted runs over and, assuming Billy has murdered his father, vows vengeance. Billy returns to town to clear his name of the robbery, but the townsmen, aware of his earlier criminal ways, assumes he is guilty and organize a lynch mob. Marshal Sam Jennings stops the mob from hanging Billy, but Billy, fearing he will not get a fair trial, flees. He visits Arlene, informing her that he must join the gang in order to gather evidence against them, and asks her to relate his plan to Jennings. Affecting a cruel, indifferent swagger, Billy goes to the mine and announces that he is now in charge, and hoping to extricate Ted, attempts to throw him out. However, Ted refuses to leave. Later, Landon explains to Billy that Garvey will rob the stage, after which Billy and his men will hijack and, preferably, kill Garvey. Billy then goes to Jennings, promising to deliver Garvey's gang and the Wells Fargo payroll to Red Canyon the following day. Meanwhile, Ted visits the local saloon, where Garvey takes advantage of his anger by hiring him onto his gang. After learning from Ted that Landon has hired Billy, Garvey, realizing Landon wants him dead, shoots the businessman. Billy hears about the murder and, deducing that Garvey knows he is being set up, devises a new plan to join forces with Garvey in the robbery and trap him afterward. The next morning, he takes his gang to Garvey's and convinces the outlaw to work together rather than engaging in an immediate shoot-out. On the trail, however, Garvey changes the original plan and demands that they rob the stage at a rest station. As Billy holds up the stage guards, Garvey instructs one of his men to grab the stage reins and take off. Billy manages to jump aboard and take control, but Garvey's men follow and knock Billy off the stage. As Garvey unloads the payroll and flees into the hills, one of his men goes to Red Canyon to tell Jennings that Billy has joined Garvey and double-crossed the lawman. Soon, Garvey, Dixon, Kolloway and Hoke are attempting to steal each others' portion of the payroll. In the confusion, Billy leaves his vest as a signal to Jennings and sneaks up behind the gang. A shootout ensues, during which Jennings, seeing the vest, hurries to join them. Garvey sends Ted to circle around behind Billy and murder him, but upon spotting his nephew, Billy counsels him that Garvey will soon kill him and take all the money. To prove this, Billy has Ted shoot into the ground, and as soon as Garvey hears the shot and assumes Billy is dead, he shoots at Ted. Billy grabs Ted out of harm's way and pretends to be hit, which allows him and Ted to surprise the gang and gun down all but Garvey. Just then, Jennings arrives and arrests Garvey. Now aware that Billy was innocent all along, Jennings wishes him well with his upcoming wedding.