Seven Ways from Sundown

"He stalked him... fought him... befriended him... but in the end he knew he'd have to kill him !"

Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.