Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette.

The movie is a prequel to The Carpetbaggers, a highly successful film from two years earlier based on the 1961 Harold Robbins novel.

In the 1890s American West, outlaws Bill Bowdre, Jesse Coe and Tom Fitch seek to rob Max's father of the gold they believe he has.

When it becomes evident that there is none, they torture and brutally kill the white father and Kiowa mother of young Max Sand.

With help from Neesa, a Kiowa dance hall girl, he identifies and confronts Coe in a saloon.

Pilar, a local Cajun girl working in the rice fields near the convicts' camp, agrees to help Max.

Unaware of Max's plan to kill Bowdre, she obtains a boat and navigates the trio through the swamp.

Still blinded by revenge, Max infiltrates Fitch's gang, calling himself Nevada Smith.

As the gang rides out to commit a gold-transport robbery, Max is spotted by Cord, who calls out his name.

The music is by Alfred Newman and the cinematography, shot in Eastmancolor and Panavision, by Lucien Ballard.