****SPOILERS***Scouting out the area of the Red Rock Canyon in the Navada Desert for a manganese mine millionaire Richard Damian, Arthur Hill, after taking a swig of whiskey and throwing the empty bottle away loses his footing and falls from his horse landing on a ledge some 50 feet below with a broken leg. Not wanting any assistance from his wife Key, Diana Muldaur, and hired scout former rodeo rider Andy Folson, James Stacy, in him trying to show them just how macho he is Damian tells them to get back to the nearest town, which is some 75 to 100 miles away, and get a helicopter to rescue him instead. Having no use for him anyway both his wife Kay and scout Folsom decide to let him stay where he is and hopefully have the desert heat as well as the desert creatures, snakes lizards & scorpions, do him in by not reporting him for two days missing to to local sheriffs office.
Expecting or even wanting to be left to die, in proving to him just how rotten they are, by his wife and hired hand Damian lifts himself up broken leg and all and tries to do the impossible survive the broiling desert heat on his own by somehow getting or hobbling, with a make shift crutch, back to civilization before the desert swallowed him up. Back home Kay and Folsom expect Damian to be found dead and then get their hands on his millions as future man & wife. The trouble for Kay & Folsom is that Damian in his will to survive doesn't play along with them. It's after 19 days in the desert that Damian is finally rescued by Sheriff Peter Greeson, Michael Ansara. That after escaping both Folson and Key who feeling that he in fact survived and are out there looking for him in order to do the job on him that the Navada a Desert couldn't.
***SPOILERS*** It was Damian's struggle to survive in the desert that made a new and better man out of him. No more was he looking to avenge what his back-stabbing wife Key & Folsom did to him in feeling that it showed him that money and material, gold silver & manganese mines, was not the road to success or salvation. It also showed Damian that what was done to him was not a crime on both Kay & Falsom's part. But a test, like with Moses when he was exiled in the desert, from God to show him the way. And thus feel what he went through, as bad and terrible as it was, was in the end the best thing that could have ever happened to him!
Expecting or even wanting to be left to die, in proving to him just how rotten they are, by his wife and hired hand Damian lifts himself up broken leg and all and tries to do the impossible survive the broiling desert heat on his own by somehow getting or hobbling, with a make shift crutch, back to civilization before the desert swallowed him up. Back home Kay and Folsom expect Damian to be found dead and then get their hands on his millions as future man & wife. The trouble for Kay & Folsom is that Damian in his will to survive doesn't play along with them. It's after 19 days in the desert that Damian is finally rescued by Sheriff Peter Greeson, Michael Ansara. That after escaping both Folson and Key who feeling that he in fact survived and are out there looking for him in order to do the job on him that the Navada a Desert couldn't.
***SPOILERS*** It was Damian's struggle to survive in the desert that made a new and better man out of him. No more was he looking to avenge what his back-stabbing wife Key & Folsom did to him in feeling that it showed him that money and material, gold silver & manganese mines, was not the road to success or salvation. It also showed Damian that what was done to him was not a crime on both Kay & Falsom's part. But a test, like with Moses when he was exiled in the desert, from God to show him the way. And thus feel what he went through, as bad and terrible as it was, was in the end the best thing that could have ever happened to him!