An amiable Western, whose tagline is “Don’t mix with Sam Whiskey. It’s risky!”, that nevertheless proves tiresome under the belabored direction of Arnold Laven (“The Glory Guys”/”Geronimo”/”The Monster That Challenged the World”). The flat screenplay is by William Norton. It’s set shortly after the Civil War, where itinerant gambler and saddle tramp Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds) is seduced by pretty widow Laura Breckenridge (Angie Dickinson) into getting paid $20,000 to retrieve a quarter of a million dollars in gold bars from a sunken riverboat in Colorado’s Platte River and then returning the stolen loot to the Denver mint. The gold was stolen by Laura’s late husband and she wishes to have it returned before the theft is found out and her illustrious family name is disgraced. The enterprising Whiskey recruits local blacksmith Jedidiah Hooker (Ossie Davis) and O. W. Bandy (Clint Walker), an Army friend turned inventor, to go along as partners on this mission.