NEVADA SMITH is a rugged innocent boy born in the 1890s during Californias gold rush days to a native American mother and white father.

When he finds his parents have been murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.

While the film is Western, and has plenty of action, it is also a powerful and revealing study of the regeneration of a man, in this case a lone gunslinger who is so blinded by his compulsion that it obscures any other motive for living.

Steve McQueens dynamic presence as Nevada Smith is memorable.