Filmen skulle eftersigende have været instrueret af Sam Peckinpah (hvilket nok ville ha' gjort filmen bedre, eller hvertfald mere interessant), men han blev fyret og ind kom Buzz Kulik, der vist gjorde filmen lidt mere mild i tonen. "Villa Rides", er en gang underholdende men også ret typisk 60'er western, der forgæves søger efter en snært af realisme. Yul Brenner har igennem tiden haft et par fantastiske roller, som han bør huskes for, men han passer altså ikke rigtig ind i billedet som mexicaner, og så kunne jeg heller ikke lad være med at kigge på den sorte paryk, der vist fik lidt for meget opmærksomhed.
Trucker Jack Crews har tre regler: Tænk ikke over, hvad du kører med. Spørg ikke, hvorfor det skal derhen. Og har du lyst til at forblive i live, så hold foden på speederen. Netop løsladt fra to år bag tremmer tager han en tur, som enten kan indbringe ham en formue eller sende ham direkte tilbage til fængslet igen: lasten er brandvarme AK47 rifler, som det viser sig, at nogen vil gøre alt for at få fat i. Nu starter en halsbrækkende jagt over det amerikanske kontinent, som efterlader et spor af ødelæggelse i kølvandet. Patrick Swayze er bag rattet i en højeksplosiv blanding af Speed og Convoy, der trykker speederen i bund og leverer ren og uforfalsket 18-hjuls action. I andre roller ser vi bl.a. Meat Loaf (Fight Club) og Randy Travis (The Rainmaker). Filmen er instrueret af Kevin Hooks (Passager nr. 57).
An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
Cuba, 1959: Batistas korrupte regering står for fald, og derfor hyrer den lejesoldaten Robert Dapes, en britisk eks-major, som skal berede troperne på at nedkæmpe de revolutionære kræfter. Dapes er udmærket klar over, at opgaven er håbløs, men han bliver alligevel hængende i Havana, da han render på sin gamle flamme, Alexandra, som nu er gift med en aristokratisk playboy.
A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beautiful government agents is sent to put him out of business.
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.