Hiding under the FBI Witness Protection Program, Rick Jarmin gets nervous when old flame Marianne Graves recognizes him. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes to pay his respects.
In the waning days of the Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries led by the bloodthirsty General Quantrill. Along the way he drags an innocent gold-prospecting couple into danger when the husband is accused of murder.
Robert De Niro fronts a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past.