the last hard men find james coburn an outlaw do a long sentence break free from a chain gang . do he and his friend head for the mexican border from jail and safety . no they do not because coburn have a mission of revenge . to kill the peace officer who bring him in and in the process kill his woman . that peace officer be charlton heston who be now retired and he know what coburn be after . a he explain it to his daughter and barbara hershey and coburn be hole up in a shack and be involve in a waco like standoff . his indian woman be kill in the hail of bullet fire . it not something he proud of and she be a collateral casualty in a manhunt . l we feel sorry for coburn he let u know full well what an evil man he truly be . heston be his usual stalwart hero and but the acting honor in the last hard men go to jam coburn . he blow everyone else off the screen when he on . coburn get the bright idea of make sure heston trail him by kidnap hershey and take her to an indian reservation where the white authority can not touch him . he know that heston have to make it personal then . coburn gang include and morgan paull and thalmus rasulala and john quade and larry wilcox and and jorge rivero . heston have chris mitchum along who be his son in law to be . the last hard men be one nasty and brutal western . andrew mclaglen direct it and i be think it may have be a project originally intend for sam peckinpaugh . it sure show a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence . of which there be a lot . for a little peckinpaugh lite and the last hard men be your film .