Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.

Burt Lancaster
as Valdez

Susan Clark
as Gay Erin

Frank Silvera
as Diego

Jon Cypher
as Frank Tanner

Richard Jordan
as R. L. Davis

Barton Heyman
as El Segundo

Héctor Elizondo
as Mexican Rider

Phil Brown
as Malson

Ralph Brown
as Beaudry

Werner Hasselmann
as Sheriff
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Proof, if it were ever needed, that scorning Burt Lancaster is a dangerous thing to do. Town deputy “Valdez”, a Mexican American veteran of the US cavalry, is tricked into killing a man accused of murder by local bigwig “Tanner” (Jon Cypher) and so he demands some compensation for his pregnant widow...