Alan Ladd plays Jim Hadley, a logger. Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut, they locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells led by Laura Riley (Jeanne Crain) are opposed to the felling of the trees, believing that the loss of the trees would cause mudslides during the heavy rains. Conflict between the towns residents and the loggers is inevitable.
