The Walking Hills 1949 Randolph Scott & Ella Rains

The Walking Hills is a 1949 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines. The film's plot has film noir elements in its story of a search for an old treasure by nine men including a detective tracking a fugitive, several others who have things to hide, and a love triangle involving the two leads and the fugitive.

The film was shot in the Alabama Hills of California and Death Valley National Monument, locations Sturges returned to a few years later to film his classic Bad Day at Black Rock.

During a poker game in a Mexican bar, a group of men discover the location of a lost wagon train -- and its cargo of gold. To prevent one man from cheating the rest, it's decided that they will find it together. Among them are horse breeder Jim Carey (Randolph Scott) and rodeo rider Shep Wilson (William Bishop) ; like their cohorts in the treasure hunt, they share a tangled history -- Chris Jackson (Ella Raines), Shep's current sweetheart, is Jim's old flame. Greed and suspicion soon break out.