Left afoot, outlaw and card sharp Johnny Sweet (Mark Damon) swipes a horse from a bounty hunter known as The Owl (John Ireland), who, naturally, tracks him down in El Paso, where he's just been taken for a sucker in a card game. Soon, Johnny and The Owl find themselves forged in alliance in the search for four stolen boxes filled with bars of solid gold. Only an Indian named Copper Face knows where the gold is hidden...
Other people are searching for the loot, which includes Mexican bandits Jose Gomez and Paco Nunez, Carranza (Fernando Sancho) and his army of pistoleros, a pretty woman named Maria (Monica Randall), who was once married to Copper Face, but abandoned him for a more comfortable life with Carranza.
The Owl, Johnny, Maria, Copper Face and the bandits wind up with the bounty, but soon discover that - with that much loot at stake - they can't possibly trust one another. And they still have Carranza and his men on their trail.
Mark Damon and John Ireland strike up a good chemistry in a father and son way and that's part of the appeal in this spaghetti western - of course, there's the usual hidden gold, bandidos, duplicitousness, double crosses and triple crosses you would find in this genre, but it's done either with panache. A slow start but it picks real quick and delivers a decent entertainment. The action is well done, the body count going high as the film progresses.
