After a bank robbery, Heller and his small gang are on the run from the posse. The gang intends to cross the border into Mexico but their horses are tired. The outlaws decide to make a stopover in the town of Quantez to rest and feed the horses.
Heller is a brutal and cynical man who treats his woman, Chaney, with disdain and contempt. When Heller treats Chaney bad, Teach defends her, causing violent clashes between himself and Heller. Gentry has to step in and separate the two before they kill each other over Chaney.
When the gang reaches the town of Quantez it is shocked to see a deserted ghost town. Nevertheless, they decide to rest there for the night. Gato, the gang's scout, scouts around at night and finds an Apache spear with a message that anyone still found in town after sunrise will be killed. Gato realizes there are Apaches around but decides to keep this information to himself. With Apaches lurking around and Heller trying to kill Teach over pretty Chaney it doesn't look like the gang will ever reach Mexico.
Bank robbers holed up in a deserted ghost town? Apaches nearby - sounds exciting, but Quantez fails in the shoot 'em up department ( well accept the lively action-packed finale). However, it has an interesting dialogue, good characters and ok tension. What plays against it is too much gabbing and not anything exciting happening, but I still thought it was ok. Diverting enough if you have nothing to watch. I guess I liked its brooding atmosphere and the psychological discord in the characters - Fred MacMurray is excellent as always. Dorothy Malone sizzles. Shame the plot wasn't sharper and had more action.
