Paladin (Richard Boone) and two strangers named Fisher (James Best) and Broderick (William Schallert) find themselves the prisoners of embittered cattle baron Louis Strome (Kent Smith). Strutting around his captives, Strome explains that his wife was recently murdered--and that the suspected murderer was seen skulking around the ranch in the dead of night, dressed entirely in black. Now all three prisoners are slated to hang at sunrise, unless one of the three confesses to the murder! As the minutes agonizingly tick away, Paladin must figure out how to extricate himself from this death-trap. . .and to learn all the facts surrounding the death of Mrs. Strome. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi