[1] It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role.

In southern Arizona Territory, hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay, from an ambush.

Bob then decides to talk and reveals that Donavan has fled to Mexico, and admits Arrila was raped and tortured before her murder.

Chris rides to the Mexican border and finds Jim with armed farmers from Magdalena, hoping to ambush De Toro.

Chris assumes the women of Magdalena have been left unprotected and Jim will have returned there, and rides into Mexico with the uncertain Noah.

Laurie Gunn explains that the women were defenseless against De Toro and his more than forty men who arrived the previous day.

Although Laurie and the women plead with Chris to help them escape before De Toro's return, he points out there are no horses and a desert trek would kill them.

Not far from Magdalena, the pair come upon the bodies of Jim and Donavan (with McKay having avenged Shelly's betrayal of the ambush to DeToro's gang).

At the mission where De Toro's woman and the town children are hiding, Chris tells Laurie his last resort: they will lure the bandits inside and blow up the church.