Raton Pass

The story

Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.

• #female villain
• #hasty marriage
• #inheritance
• #stagecoach
• #hired goons
• #father's property
• #based on novel or book
• #new mexico territory
• #adulterous wife
• #land dispute
• #ambitious wife
• #business deal