A pair of Indian medicine men encounter a wounded bandit, the Stranger, crawling out from a mass grave; they nurse him back to health.

The Stranger, his partner Oaks, and their gang killed the troops, caught swimming in a river, and stole a strongbox containing bags of powdered gold from the wagon.

However, Oaks and the white members of the gang betrayed the Stranger and the Mexican bandits, and forced them to dig their grave before gunning them down.

In the present, the Indians inform the Stranger that they have smelted his share of the gold into bullets, and that they wish to be his companions so that he can tell them about the happy hunting ground.

Oaks and his gang arrive in a nearby town (referred to by the Indians as "The Unhappy Place"), where they attempt to buy horses and food with their gold.

Templer and Alderman, the town pastor, lead an armed mob in lynching all of the bandits except for Oaks, who barricades himself in a store.

They return to Sorrow's ranch, where he offers the Stranger work, throws a party and sends a messenger to town to inform Templer of the kidnapping.

Alderman invites the Stranger to live with him, and encourages him to have an affair with Elizabeth, his half-mad wife who is kept locked up in her bedroom.

Flory, witnessing the murder, flees and tells the Stranger what has happened, and that the gold is now in the graveyard due to Evan's burial.

Sorrow's muchachos capture the Stranger, crucify him and torture him with vampire bats; he confesses that the gold is in the cemetery.

[11][12] The cut version was also released in UK and US in 1970 by Golden Era Film Distributors with the tagline "Terror from the Depths of Hell!".