O frio e impiedoso James Devlin (Steve Forrest) é um pistoleiro corajoso e cínico que, após sobreviver a seu próprio enforcamento, decide usar sua habilidade no manejo das armas para ajudar Carrie Gault (Sharon Acker), uma jovem viúva amargurada que está sendo ameaçada por Lew Halleck (Cameron Mitchell), um latifundiário que quer suas terras. Durante os arrepiantes tiroteios um confronto final tenso e empolgante entre James e Lew é inevitável.
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?
