With dreams to finance, Jim Kane (Paul Newman) takes his tough but dim friend Leonard (Lee Marvin) to Mexico in a get-rich-quick cattle scam. When they're cheated out of their cut by the crooked cattle baron, Jim and Leonard try to get what's theirs so they can go back home. Based on the novel by J.P.S. Brown, this quirky character study comes from director and frequent Newman collaborator Stuart Rosenberg (Cool Hand Luke).