Westerner Ken McTavish, posing as a deaf fiddle-player, comes to the Kettle Creek area of Kentucky, searching for the killer of his father. It is the home area of two long-feuding clans, the Harlands and the McTavish, neither of which trust the other nor any outsiders. Ken is brought before a vigilante midnight court of mountain-men as he is suspected of being an internal-revenue man looking for illegal moonshine-stills. The Harland clan-member responsible for the death of Ken's Father wastes no time in making problems for him, and further complications arise when Ken falls in love with Coral Harland.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>