J.D. Cannon

Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of the Donner and Reed families as they became victims of madness, death and cannibalism.

A father moves his daughter across the country for a fresh start. When she is brutally murdered by a gang, her father vows to avenge her.

At the height of the Cold War, a secret agent who wants out of the CIA finds himself on the hit list of the French assassin he mentored.

Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa (Barbara Hershey), a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck (David Carradine), the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.