Michael Anderson Jr.

An offbeat western adventure film about a Union officer in charge of a jail in the Southwest. Renegade Apaches attack an Army outpost, killing everyone and the officer leads an expedition against them. The prisoners become part of the Union troops.

Ryder Hart (Academy Award-nominee Peter Weller - "RoboCop," "RoboCop 2") is a disgraced ex-cop who is now a low-rent private investigator. His estranged wife, Anita (Alexandra Paul "Christine," "American Flyers"), runs the Sunset Grill and is now involved with Jeff (Michael Anderson Jr. "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "Logans Run") a police detective who used to work with Ryder. When Anita is found brutally murdered, Ryder and Jeff team up to find her killer. The case appears to be related to an immigrant who worked at the Sunset Grill and an old friend of Ryder's named Guillermo. During their investigation, Ryder and Jeff meet Harrison Shelgrove (Emmy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Stacy Keach -"American History X," "Esacape from LA"), a wealthy industrialist who owns a gun club. Meanwhile, Loren (Golden Globe-winner Lori Singer - "Footloose," "Warlock"), an employee at the club, seems to take an unusual amount of interest in Ryder. As Ryder gets closer to the truth, he begins to suspect that a crooked INS agent, Stockton, may know something about the case. What began as a search for the murderer of his wife leads Ryder into a mystery involving illegal immigrants in Los Angeles.

An adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book the "Greatest Story" follows the life of Jesus Christ, played by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting cast includes Dorothy McGuire as Mary, Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Jose Ferrer as Herod Antipas, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, Donald Pleasence as Satan, David McCallum as Judas Iscariot, Sidney Poitier as Simon of Cyrene, Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate and Martin Landau as Caiaphas. Even Robert Blake as Simon the Zealot, Jamie Farr as Thaddaeus, and motorcyle-flick veteran Richard Bakalyan as Dismas, the repentant thief, are well-suited to their roles.

Based on the 1976 science-fiction movie of a hedonistic society living in a huge bubble and taking for granted there is no life outside of it.