Johnny Reno

Johnny Reno is a 1966 American western film made by A.C. Lyles Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by R.G. Springsteen, produced by A.C. Lyles, with a screenplay by Andrew Craddock, Steve Fisher and A.C. Lyles. The film features Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, and Lon Chaney, Jr., and involves a frontier marshal who finds himself desperately trying to stop a man he had brought to jail from being lynched by the furious townspeople. A lone horseman, US Marshal Johnny Reno , is riding through the American West, observed by two men hidden in behind rocks. Taking him to be... a lawman despatched on their trail, they try to kill him. He manages to evade them, creeps up them behind and kills one of them, wounding the other whom he takes prisoner. The captive reveals himself and his dead companion to be the Connors Brothers, on the run from a posse and a Native American war party both of whom are out for their blood. Reno takes the man prisoner and heads for the town of Stone Junction, where the Connors were alleged to have committed the murder of the son of a local Indian chief.
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