As a young boy he witnesses the cold blooded murder of his father. He grows up, learning how to shoot - intent of finding his father's killer Now a man he leaves his distraught mother to go in search of the outlaw, wearing his father's Texas Ranger's badge and carrying his ivory handled Colt 45. Face to face there is a classic shootout. Justice meted out, he can carry on - a Texas ranger - 'till he takes his last draw'. The film ends as it began - down by the river.