Sheriff Dusty Barnett is prepared for trouble when a traveling theater troupe arrives in Dawson, Arizona to perform a melodrama, The Phantom Killer. The actors are an eccentric bunch, so Dusty isn't surprised when shooting erupts after one of the actors romances the daughter of the town's doctor. The lawman is shocked, however, when someone wearing a dark, caped costume similar to one worn by the play's villain robs the stage depot and kills the manager. In the mayhem that follows the murder, Sheriff Barnett finds he must also deal with two stagecoach robberies and an angry lynch mob while stalking the mysterious phantom killer, who seems intent on striking again.
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