The Plunderers

The Civil War crippled Sam Christy's right arm and broke his will to fight. But Sam, now a Texas rancher, may find there are still some things worth fighting for. Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawlessness if decent folks like Sam don't take a stand. Jeff Chandler (Broken Arrow, Merrill's Marauders) champions for justice in a Western morality tale directed with purposeful pacing by TV veteran Joseph Pevney. A number of familiar faces peer out from under those cowboy hats: John Saxon, Jay C. Flippen and Ray Stricklyn among them.

THE PLUNDERERS is a fairly slow-paced, uneven western about a group of young toughs who run amok until they are brought up short by a one-armed Civil War vet. The leader Jeb (Ray Strickland) is accompanied by his three cohorts, Mule (Roger Torrey) a hulking Paul Bunyan type, Rondo (John Saxon), and Davy (Dee Pollack), the most innocent of the quartet. When the young men arrive in the small town, they take it over and rule the roost like four despots. Sam (Jeff Chandler), a shell-shocked veteran of the Civil War, slowly gets his act together and begins to take the four down, one at a time.