故事产生在二十世纪初的墨西哥革射中。一辆远程马车里，崇高的师长姑娘们对一位缄默沉静寡言的农人大放厥词，然而忽然农人摇身一变，显削发庭式匪帮头子胡安（Rod Steiger 饰）的真脸孔。胡安打劫后路遇爱尔兰反动军爆破专家约翰（James Coburn 饰），后者的爆破才能令抢劫梅萨维德银行如探囊取物，因此胡安苦苦尾随，不经意间却卷进了合营维拉…

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.