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Adapted for the screen by James Lee Barrett, a tenderfoot family is trying to make it across the prairie alone. A gang of good-for-nothings led by Doc Shabitt (close but no cigar on the name) think the family is easy pickins until the guardian angel Con Vallian (Sam Elliott) arrives on the scene. In a confrontation over horses, two of the thugs are killed, including Shabitt’s son, and the gang is hell-bent for revenge. Like many weak jackals, their fury fastens on the wrong party; they seek to take out their anger with Elliott on the dude family.
The thugs, led by the scraggly Matt Clark as Doc Shabitt, are just OK; no real convincing menace exudes from these sleazy goons, but the West was probably populated by just such a bunch of weasely opportunists that would take advantage of a situation out on the lonely trail, so it is probably more true to life than we realize.
Sam Elliott, without hardly letting the smirk fade from his face, helps the tenderfoot family throughout their plight and finally leaves them self sufficient, and therefore better for having known him – not to mention still alive, since they probably would have fallen if he wouldn't have been there to fend off the jackals a few times.
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