Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.