The hunting partí

Brandt Ruger (Gene Hackman) is a millionaire in the Old West who amuses himself with a hunting trip, leaving his neglected wife Melissa Ruger (Candice Bergen) alone back at the ranch. This gives Frank Calder (Oliver Reed) an opportunity to plan and carry out a kidnapping of Melissa, but it is a case of mistaken identity. Calder thinks he has taken a schoolteacher whom he can treat well and from whom he can receive an education. She likes his kindly nature and falls for him. Alas, Brandt Ruger is not a happy man and, with his high-powered hunting rifle, decides to hunt down the gang who took her. To his shock Ruger learns Melissa is staying willingly with the bad guys. Tragedy ensues.