Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
William Holden
as Ross Bodine
Ryan O'Neal
as Frank Post
Karl Malden
as Walter Buckman
Lynn Carlin
as Sada Billings
Tom Skerritt
as John Buckman
Joe Don Baker
as Paul Buckman
Geoffrey Edwards
as Attendant's Son
James Olson
as Joe Billings
Leora Dana
as Nell Buckman
Moses Gunn
as Ben
Victor French
as Sheriff
Rachel Roberts
as Maybell
