An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

Bud Spencer
as Hiram Coburn

Jack Palance
as Sonny Bronston

Francisco Rabal
as Sheriff Franciscus

Renato Cestiè
as Chip Anderson

Dany Saval
as Mary Bronston

Luciano Catenacci
as James

Roberto Camardiel
as Mole

Franco Giacobini
as Professor Dirteater

Serena Michelotti
as Widow Warren

Manuel Guitián
as Uncle Anderson