After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
Tom Selleck
as Mac Traven
Sam Elliott
as Dal Traven
Ben Johnson
as Uncle 'Black Jack' Traven
Geoffrey Lewis
as Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
Jeff Osterhage
as Jesse Traven
Gene Evans
as Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
Katharine Ross
as Kate Connery / Sister Katherine
Dominique Dunne
as Sissy Traven
Scanlon Gail
as Yankee Officer
R.G. Armstrong
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
Marshall R. Teague
as Lieutenant Butler
Jane Greer
as Ma Traven