Charles Bronson is at his steely best as Pardon Chato, a half-Apache who kills a white lawman in self-defense in a saloon argument, then finds himself being trailed by a posse headed by former Confederate officer Capt. Quincey Whitmore (Jack Palance). Chato manages to make his way back to his family, but when his pursuers catch up to him, and his wife (Sonia Rangan) is brutally raped, he vows bloody revenge. James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, and Richard Basehart co-star.