One Eyed Jacks is a classic western in which Marlon Brando ('Rio') stars with Karl Malden ('Dad Longworth') as two bank robbers on the run from the Federales in Mexico, They are pinned down and only one can get away to get fresh horses for their escape. Dad is the one to go, but greed gets the best of him. He takes off with the money and leaves Rio to be captured and sent to a Mexican Jail for 5 long years.

When he escapes, he goes looking for Dad, finally finding him in Monterey, California, where 'Dad' is now a tough Sheriff and has a beautiful step-daughter, Louisa. The action and the romance heat up as Rio is bent on revenge and falls for the beautiful Louisa.

A remarkably strong cast feature in a 'Cain and Abel' plot redefined with Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley.

Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright, who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). When Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) fathers an illegitimate child, he tried to shift the responsibility and wrath of the vengeance-seeking brothers of the baby's mother (Sally Forrest) on to Owen, whilst Joanne Dru co-stars as Lee's long-suffering wife Jen, who harbors a secret yen for Owen.