This film is an expanded version of a TV episode from The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. The series about a wagon train in 1849 told from a youngster's point of view. Charles Bronson and Kurt Russell go up against some bad guys who run the town to which the pair have gone for supplies. Bronson runs into an old girl friend, played by Susan Oliver, who is now married to his enemy Merlin. Bronson had long ago broken Merlin's arm and now the man wants revenge. Merlin has Bronson jailed but Oliver frees him. Bronson along with Russell and Fowley, an elderly townsman, shoot it out with the gang. The bad guys are killed but so is Fowley who gives Russell a map just before dying. The map leads the way to a gold mine and the man and boy, along with Oliver, set out to find it. Filmed in Germany where it was released in 1965 it was reworked and released in the USA in 1997.