A gang of bandits with a somewhat chivalrous leader kidnap who they think is a schoolmarm because the leader wants to learn to read. However, their victim is actually the wife of a rich and psychotic rancher who rounds up his buddies and hunts down the gang with high powered sniper rifles. Candice Bergen is very young and beautiful and Oliver Reed is incredible at projecting haunted desperation. A surprisingly bloody and nihilistic western.

As with the Clint Eastwood western High Plains Drifter, this has also got a rapist portrayed sympathetically, which to me is just too much. In general there's just too much wrong with this western scriptwise despite the fact that It's fairly involving and has decent acting (not necessarily from little Murphy Brown though).