Plot: Cynical Secession War veteran Hogan (Clint Eastwood) is in Mexico to earn a fortune trading arms to the Juarista rebels against the French troops of Emperor Maximilian. He takes pity, with ever more mixed feelings, on maverick nun Sara (Shirley MacLaine), who is pursued by French cavalry. Godless Hogan never picks up that she's ignorant in religious matters, while obviously the contrary in anything profane. Stuck on the wrong side of Mexican law and facing the semi-hostile Yaqui tribe, they mutually confide and find both to be heading for a French fort to be taken by the Juaristas, whose rustic "Colonel" Beltran (Manolo Fábregas) only leads a bunch of war-ignorant peasants and requires him to fetch explosives from Texas. Only after they bond in several adventures, he learns her true crime and identity.
Alternative Plot: When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he shoots them dead and rescues the woman. The two escape to a nearby camp of Mexican revolutionaries, who have hired Hogan to help fight the invading French army. En route, Sara turns out to be surprisingly crude for a nun, drinking, smoking and using curse words. When she also proves to be handy with a gun, Hogan begins wondering if she is telling him the whole truth.
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