Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) is an aging gunslinger who wants to retire peacefully to Europe. After watching him quickly shoot three gunmen who attempted to ambush him in a barbershop, the barber's son asks his father if there is anyone in the world faster than Beauregard, to which the barber replies, "Faster than him? Nobody!" Beauregard pauses to watch a down-and-out (Terence Hill) catching fish before continuing to an old goldmine.