Glenn Ford stars as a retired gunfighter, now the marshal of a small Western town, forced to confront a brash young gunslinger bent on proving who's best in The Last Challenge. Marshal Dan Blaine (Ford) recognizes himself as a young man in Lot McGuire (Chad Everett). He tries to show McGuire the foolish mistake he is determined to make and how it will change his life forever. But the two are drawn inexorably to a showdown from which only one man will walk away. Based on the novel Pistolero's Progress by Albert Maltz writing as John B. Sherry.