After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind.
Acting
Kristofferson's weary gravitas elevates every scene.
Direction
Guillermin's final film—workmanlike but competent.
Director
John Guillermin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director John Guillermin made The Towering Inferno and King Kong '76—this was his final film before retirement.
Part of a brief late-80s wave of gritty TV westerns trying to revive the genre for VHS audiences.
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