Run for Cover (1955)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Grant Withers, Jack Lambert, James Cagney, Jean Hersholt, John Derek, Ray Teal, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis:

Western that starts when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town’s sheriff shoots the kid he’s riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own.