- Crown leads a posse after Ace Coffin's gang. The posse is endangered by one of its members known as "Screamer" who is only interested in the bounty on Coffin's head.
- One bright, sunny day, a drunken cowpoke only known as "Screamer" ploughs through Cimarron on his horse, wrecking everything in his way, announcing to the crowd that he is going to have himself a party, and whooping wildly. Marshal Jim Crown arrives to interrupt Screamer's drunken binge. Screamer thinks that the Marshal is going to kill him, but Crown just wants to discipline him. In the Marshall's office, Screamer complains that Crown is putting him out of a job. Crown simply shoves him into a jail cell, while Screamer threatens and protests. In the adjacent cell lies a surly, laconic man named Rocky, who had been arrested for a bank robbery. Crown interrogates Rocky for information on who he's working for, but Rocky refuses to talk. That night, in his office, Crown is leafing through "Wanted" posters. He pauses on one- Ace Coffin- a man with 10,000 dollars on his head. He goes to check on his prisoners. At the inn, Dulcey is playing a tarot card game with MacGregor and Francis. She notices a few ominous and strange signs- death, a journey, money. Back in the jail, Rocky lies in wait, glancing at the window. A man arrives at the window, and calls his name. Unbeknownst to Rocky, Screamer, who had been sleeping it off in the adjacent cell, wakes up and lies on his bunk listening. "Coffin?" says Rocky. "I thought you'd never come!" "Knowing you, I had to come", sneers the stranger, before killing Rocky. Screamer recognises the name of the killer: Ace Coffin. Crown arrives at the jail, inspects Rocky's body, and demands to know where the man went. He presses Screamer for information, but Screamer, too scared to talk, claims that he was asleep the entire time and didn't hear anything. Noticing Screamer's nervous expression, Crown doesn't buy it but offers to go after the man who killed Rocky. MacGregor offers to night track. Screamer's pride gets to him and he offers to night track as well, agreeing to work for little pay. They let him out and allow him to join their posse, to MacGregor's chagrin. Sauntering into the Marshal's office, Screamer comes across the poster of Ace Coffin and finds an even better reason than pride to go after Coffin. At Coffin's hideout, Coffin nominates one of his gang, Latch, to be a spy for them. The posse arrive at Coffin's hideout by morning. They begin to ambush the outlaw, but Screamer tries to get a first shot at Coffin, blowing everyone's cover and getting MacGregor wounded. MacGregor is taken over to an inn, where Crown flirts with a Mexican waitress and questions her on where Coffin and his gang went. Screamer strides in, declaring he has a lead on Coffin. Seeing the waitress, he seduces her and accidentally reveals the price on the head of Rocky's killer. As MacGregor is taken back to Dulcey for healing, Crown and Screamer go on ahead. They are almost ambushed by one of Coffin's men, but Latch kills him and offers to join Crown and Screamer on their journey. Night falls and the path to Coffin is covered by cattle tracks. They hear cries for help and find a man tied upside down to a boulder, a cattle rustler named Smitty, who hears about Coffin and joins the posse for the 10,000 dollar reward. As the posse bunk down for the night, Smitty prepares to abandon them to go after Coffin himself, but Crown catches him. They hear Coffin's gang go by. Screamer charges after them but is shot in the leg. As the gang prepare to kill him, Crown goes in to save him, but he's knocked out. Screamer isn't killed anyway, and is moved to a boulder. Latch and Smitty arrive to save them and chase Coffin's gang away. Smitty goes after Coffin and his gang. Safe in that clearing, Crown reveals that the 10,000 dollar reward on Coffin is to capture him alive. Screamer is horrified that Crown would keep this information from him. He tries to get himself up to go after Coffin, but he's in no shape to do so. Patching up Screamer's leg, Crown asks the cowpoke what he would need that money for. Screamer confesses to Crown that he wants to become respectable, and open up a little saloon. As he's talking, Screamer falls unconscious. Crown leaves him to heal and goes with Latch after Coffin's gang. The next morning, they find Smitty dead, and Coffin's gang hiding in a cluster of rocks. They have a shoot-out, and Latch is killed. Finally, only Crown and Coffin are left. Back in the clearing, Screamer wakes up to find Crown gone. Fortunately, there's a horse nearby, so he hauls himself up onto the horse, despite his busted leg, and tracks Crown to the rock cluster. Crown and Coffin fight among the rocks. Crown is out of bullets and Coffin has him at his mercy. Screamer, cursing his own worthlessness, shoots Coffin from behind, killing him. Screamer finds himself back in the jail, this time with his leg suspended in a leather strap, and owing even more money for the damage he's caused, even with his salary for tracking Coffin. Dulcey offers for him to help her plant rutabagas. The belligerent Screamer protests, but agrees. As they leave the jail, Screamer scoffs to himself, then a smile spreads across his face. Crown thinks it's the wrong time of the year to plant rutabagas, but he's wrong. Dulcey reasons with Crown that a man who would give up ten thousand dollars to save someone like Crown "has a very green thumb".
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Journey to a Hanging (1967) in Australia?
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