Silver City (1951)
Larkin Moffatt (Edmond O’Brien) is a mining engineer blamed for the theft of a valuable assay and branded untrustworthy by partner Charles Storrs.
He finds refuge as an assayer in Silver City, where Dutch Surrency and his pretty daughter Candace (Yvonne DeCarlo) have struck it rich.
The problem — they’ve got a short-term lease on their mine, courtesy of R.R. Jarboe (Barry Fitzgerald).
And if he learns of the assay, he’ll do his best to keep the Surrencys from mining the silver until the lease runs out.
Candace wants Moffatt to serve as mining engineer. Though fearful that his past will come back to haunt everyone involved, he reluctantly agrees.
Whereupon the old partner and an old love (Kasey Rogers as Josephine) show up in Silver City to further complicate matters.
And by that time, Jarboe suspects the silver mine is very rich, and has henchmen Bill Taff resort to every dirty trick to keep Jardoe from becoming “poorer by the hour.”