An ageing marshal hires his former partner to help him protect a shipment of gold bullion. However, as the two old friends cuss and quarrel over the course of their journey, the lawman comes to realise his buddy is struggling with the temptation to steal the valuable cargo. Sam Peckinpah's Western, with Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, James Drury and Edgar Buchanan.

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.