While he is narrating the opening portion, the Virginian comments on how it's funny how little people really know about each other. This is like the pot calling the kettle black, since no one there knew any of his names. It's comical as usual when the character calls everyone he meets by their name yet no one ever says his name.
The plot bears more than a passing similarity to No Name on the Bullet (1959), which Universal had made about a decade earlier; both deal with a notorious gunman arriving into town, with several characters wondering if he's come to kill them.
This was a rare non-singing role for Herb Jeffries, who was best known as a crooner, and an even rarer appearance as a character who identifies as white. Interestingly, he had played a singing cowboy in a few African-American films in the late 1930s.
In a change of pace, the Virginian narrates the opening portion.
To those who knew of Herb Jeffries, the actor, identifying as a light-skinned black man, this episode could be seen as thinly veiled racial commentary. While Frank, the reputed gunman, is seen as nothing other than white, the frequent remarks by townsfolk of not serving him and not wanting his kind in town could just as easily have been applied in towns of the time to Herb Jeffries, the man.