Luke Billings Lionel Jeffries and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis Richard Todd so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know so is forced to lay low As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeepers wife Priss Dobbs Anne Aubrey Having had enough her husband Ernie Jamie Uys takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone An act that prompts Hargis to join him Slowly the townsfolk turn up to back them up