Things have changed in the Alaska salmon fishing industry since the government stepped in and limited the river-wide traps. But the desires of the old hands are still the same. Brian Keith wants to marry Jan Sterling and run the salmon fishing/canning cooperative. Gene Barry wants the old monopoly on canning. And Robert Ryan. Keith's old partner who walked out, wants to get out of jail and go back to his boat.
It's a fairly standard men-against-the-world story, with Ryan occupying the middle ground between Keith's too-good-to-be-true position, and Barry's greed. Ryan wants things the way they were, back when he could do what he wanted, but the $1000 lien on his boat for docking owed to Timothy Carey is a real impediment. So which way is he going to go?
In the meantime, there's some nice shots of glaciers calving into the sea, and strong men pounding each other with their fists, but everything shot on the Paramount lot with some moving mattes. Jerry Hopper shoots this programmer with efficiency. Keep an eye out for Ralph Dume, Ross Bagdassian, and Aaron Spelling in the cast.
