Alejandro del Pelado is a convicted murderer, sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. But at his execution things go horribly awry and he escapes to terrorize an unsuspecting town. When a mysterious telegram draws Jim Hannigan and his lovely partner Angela 'Tootie' del Pelado into a twisted plot of kidnapping and revenge, the ex-manhunter begins to suspect an old enemy has come back to haunt them.