The Wrath of God is a 1972 American Western film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring: Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth and Victor Buono.

In 1922, in an unnamed country south of Mexico torn by revolution, Emmet Keogh, an Irish patriot and political assassin, is coerced into transporting a truckload of Scotch whiskey for English gunrunner, Jennings.

After subjecting Keogh, Van Horne, and Jennings (who was actually smuggling arms, not whiskey) to a mock execution by a firing squad, Santilla offers to spare them if they will assassinate Tomas de la Plata, who lives with his mother in a well-protected region in Mojada, which is under his control.

Once there, Van Horne sets about cleaning the church, assisted by orphaned choirboy, Pablito, while Keogh and Jennings dine at de la Plata's hacienda.

It is revealed that during Mojada's liberation in his absence, de la Plata's father was brutally murdered and his sister (who later committed suicide, out of shame) and mother were violated by Santilla's men, while the corrupt local priest stood by and did nothing.

He also tells the townspeople he will perform: marriages, masses, communion, sacraments, baptisms and hear confessions that night, hoping that they will be grateful enough to join the trio into taking up arms against de la Plata.

Later, Nacho, all wounded, comes to inform the three men that de la Plata has taken hostages, including Chela and Pablito, and threatens to shoot them, one by one every half hour, until Van Horne comes to him.

However, Keogh, Nacho, and several Aymara men sneak in to save Chela, the only hostage kept in to be used as bait; the former blasts the main entrance with grenades, weakening the doors enough for Jennings to drive Van Horne's car through them.

The film is a lighthearted adaptation of the western noir novel The Wrath of God written by Harry Patterson and published under the pseudonym of James Graham in 1971, and later as Jack Higgins.