The Spikes Gang

Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is an aging bank robber of the fading Old West. He is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends. After enduring a beating from his father, and encouraged by Spikes's reminiscences of the good life, Wil decides to run away from home seeking excitement and easy living. The boys eventually make it to a Texas town, hungry and despondent, and in a moment of inspiration attempt to rob a bank. In the process Tod accidentally kills a man, and Les drops all the money, but they manage to escape and cross