Plot: Eager to test his brand-new and very expensive long-range rifles, the affluent and sadistic cattle mogul, Brandt Ruger, leaves for an exciting hunting trip with a team of hand-picked rich friends. In the meantime, the illiterate hardened outlaw, Frank Calder, and his marauding gang of cut-throats mistake Ruger's wife, Melissa, for the town's schoolteacher, and abduct her, unbeknownst to them that no one steals from the powerful rancher. Now, Ruger is after them, knowing that he can take down Calder's men one by one. With such formidable weapons, swift and invisible death comes from afar. Who shall live and who shall die?
Alternative Plot: Brandt Ruger (Gene Hackman) is a rich cattle rancher. He has a bad relationship with his wife, Melissa (Candice Bergen), whom he treats like a possession. While Brandt is away from home on a hunting trip, Frank Calder (Oliver Reed), a brazen outlaw, kidnaps Melissa and holds her for ransom. Frank, however, treats Melissa better than her own husband does, and before long she begins to develop feelings for him. When Brandt returns, he's enraged and vows to take violent revenge against Frank.
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