A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950) Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun

The daughter of a railroad executive, Kit Dodge Jr. (Anne Baxter) is a nononsense gunslinger, but she finds that she could use a little help when she has to compete with Dakota (Rory Calhoun), the ruthless representative of a stagecoach company. Handsome and smoothtalking traveling salesman Johnny BehindtheDeuces (Dan Dailey) turns out to be just the ally that she needs, as she attempts to defeat Dakota in a race that pits train against stagecoach.