This film begins with a family in a covered wagon stopping to camp in the wilderness for the day. The scene then shifts to a prospector by the name of "Isaac" (Jim Brown) riding into a small town and carrying with him some gold nuggets he has recently mined. Naturally, this discovery doesn't go unnoticed and almost immediately four lowlifes enter the bank and attempt to steal the money he had just received. Within minutes one of the them is dead and the other three are disarmed-just long enough for Isaac to ride out of town. Not long afterward, this news is reported to the leader of some nearby Mexican bandits and they immediately ride off in pursuit. It's during this time that they happen to stumble upon the family in the covered wagon and that's when real tragedy occurs as the mother is brutally raped but then killed alongside her husband in the process. Additionally, their young teenage daughter "Lisa" (Glynnis O'Connor) is taken by force to be sold as a sex slave in Mexico. What these bandits don't realize, however, is that the family's teenage son "Tom" (Leif Garrett) has witnessed this horrific incident from a distance and he is determined to not only kill every one of these bandits but to rescue his sister in the process as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a fairly entertaining Western which, surprisingly enough, had both Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef (as the bandit leader "McClain") in subordinate roles to Leif Garrett. And even though the young actor performed reasonably well, it was Lee Van Cleef's performance that gave this film the credibility it needed-especially considering some of the implausible action scenes that followed. That being said, while this certainly wasn't a great Western by any means, it managed to pass the time fairly well and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
