They riddled him with bullets.

They strung him up.

They left him to die.

But they made two fatal mistakes: they hanged the wrong man ...

and they Didnt finish the job.

In his first American made western, Clint Eastwood indelibly carves his niche as the quintessential tough guy - cool-headed, iron willed and unrelenting in his pursuit of revenge.

Oklahoma.

1873. Jed Cooper (Eastwood), mistaken for a rustler and killer, is lynched on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley) and a rampaging band of vigilantes.

But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, theres one very important detail Theyve overlooked: Cooper is still alive

Out for justice - and vengeance - Cooper takes on the job of deputy marshal ...

and, one by one, tracks down the nine men who done him wrong. .