Starring

The film opens with Major Charles Rane (Devane) returning home to a small Texas town with Corporal Johnny Vohden (Jones) after spending seven years as a POW in Hanoi. The town is intent on giving Rane a hero's homecoming and at a grand celebration, he is presented with a Cadillac and 2555 silver dollars, one for every day he was a captive plus one for luck, by the Texas Belle Linda Forchet (Linda Haynes), who has worn his bracelet throughout.

The gang escalate the violence and put Rane’s hand down the garbage disposal – it is at this point that his wife and son return. Rane lies with a mangled arm on the kitchen floor while his son locates the silver dollars.

His first move upon discharge from hospital is to saw-off a shotgun, sharpen the prosthetic hook which has replaced his hand and set off in his Cadillac.