Overview

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.

Cast

William Holden

Ross Bodine

Ryan O'Neal

Frank Post

Karl Malden

Walter Buckman

Lynn Carlin

Sada Billings

Tom Skerritt

John Buckman

Joe Don Baker

Paul Buckman

N/A

Geoffrey Edwards

Attendant's Son

James Olson

Joe Billings

Leora Dana

Nell Buckman

Moses Gunn

Ben

Victor French

Sheriff

Rachel Roberts

Maybell