James Garner is the frontier scout on a mission to find the men who killed and scalped his Native American wife, Sidney Poitier is a former Army Sergent who is now some kind of gunslinger, Bill Travers is the army lieutenant looking to make a name for himself, Dennis Weaver is the racist owner business man looking to make a buck and Bibi Andersson is Weaver's wife who was kidnapped by native American Indians. That's a strange cast to put it mildly.
Besides the tough violence, the film was noted for Poitier's color blind casting and the odd sight of Ingmar Bergman regular Bibi Andersson showing up in a western of all things.
The film wants to make a reasonable statement about the treatment of Native Americans but it basically descends into just another shoot em up western, although a well done shoot em up western.
The film was shot on impressive Utah locations, the rather strange score is by Neal Hefti of The Odd Couple fame.
The film was written by Marvin H. Albert and Michael M. Grilikhes the running time is 103 minutes
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