Bernard F. Pincus

Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

When a military plane is shot down in uninhabited jungle in an unknown Asian country, the men aboard have to contend with a mysterious house which, once entered, proves difficult to leave.

A fisherman is found strangled and investigators come to believe it may have been by the irradiated skeleton that was found near his body. The film is often erroneously listed as an alternative title for 1971's "Blood Thirst."