SAm Paxton(Borgnine) and his wife Dora(Adams) return home to find their son shot to death and their teenage daugter kidnapped by a mysterious raiding party.

When a posse led by local sheriff Naylor proves ineffective, Paxton sends for an old Confederate war buddy named Charlie Gordon.

But in a scene the precludes BLAZING SADDLES, what arrives is Ekeziel Smith; an Abilene,Texas lawman who is substituting for a badly injured Gordon.

The two-man posse stops to pray at a monastery and Father Gomez promises them shelter there if they ever need it.The solution turns out to be a mix of the two suspected criminals---white crimelord El Grande operates out of Mexico and usually hires starving renegade Indians to do his dirty work.

Paxton barges in unannounced, and Ezekiel has to pretend he's a cop and starts a bar brawl to divert suspicions.