Raw Edge (1956): Cast & Plot

In 1842, a wealthy Oregon man named Montgomery, Herbert Rudley, rules with an iron hand, enforcing a stark law: any unmarried woman must go with the man who lays claim to her. After his wife Hannah Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, is attacked by an unseen assailant, Montgomery points the finger at his rival, Dan Kirby John Gavin.

Dan Kirby’s Indian wife, Paca, Mara Corday, pleads with Hannah to save her husband, but they are too late. Paca makes a break with Hannah to return to her people but is pursued; an Indian named Five Crows attempts to help but is murdered. Paca is captured by a white man, Sile Doty, Robert J. Wilke, who makes her his property and returns her to his house.