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Outlaws
It's true when they say that blood's thicker than water. Take the Kelly brothers, for instance. Zim Kelley set out to write his name in blood clear across the Oklahoma Territory, and he used all the strength of a crippled hand to drive his brother Maury with him. Zim Kelley is one bad hombre. He is spoiled and mean. When he gets into a fight in a Guthrie saloon and it leaves another man dead, his slow-witted, mild-mannered, big brother Maury comes to the rescue. Zim tells Maury that it was an accident, but that he will probably be hanged. When Will Foreman comes to arrest Zim, Maury hits Will over the head, allowing his little brother and himself to escape.
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Zim
Kelley: Richard Rust
Marshal
Frank Caine has a little fun with this. He tells an obviously uncomfortable
Will sitting in a chair before him in the Marshal's Office the next morning,
"Why don't you let me go along and watch you arrest a man, sometime.
You...always back up to him, do you?" "Very funny, Frank," retorts Will. "It
wasn't Zim. It was his brother Maury." Will promptly goes in pursuit of the
Kelly brothers. Although Maury is not technically a wanted man at the time, he
becomes one the longer the two brothers remain free. Zim goes on one rampage
after another, and in the process, he kills any number of people. In the eyes
of the law, Maury Kelley becomes an accomplice.
Will
tracks the two brothers across several counties, where he finally encounters a
saloon owner willing to help set a trap. In the meantime, Maury has fallen for
Persis, a pretty hostess in the saloon, and she convinces him that his brother
is no good. Although he knows this, he has made a promise on his parents'
deathbeds to look after his little brother, so he refuses to leave when she
urges him to do so. The result is that the two brothers get into a falling out
over the girl, and Maury ends up killing his brother, just as Will catches up
with them.