A rebellious modern-day cowboy breaks out of jail and escapes on horseback - but reckons without the relentlessness of the authorities, who give chase by car and helicopter. A dogged sheriff leads the pursuit, coming to sympathise with his quarry. Western, starring Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands and George Kennedy.

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.