
Set in the immediate post-Civil War era The Mc Masters stars Brock Peters (The L-Shaped Room To Kill a Mockingbird) as Benjie a black Union soldier & former slave who returns to his southern hometown He quickly learns that nothing has really changed he is a &free& man in name only Benjie&s one true friend turns out to be Neal Mc Masters (Burl Ives The Big Country Day of the Outlaw) the rancher who raised Benjie & is now offering him a half-share in the Mc Masters& land In need of help Benjie befriends Native-American White Feather (David Carradine Kung Fu Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2) & his starving tribesmen who end up working on the land In return White Feather offers Benjie his sister Robin (Nancy Kwan) to be his wife as a token of their gratitude But things come to a violent turn when the local bigots& racial hatred launch a reign of anger led by the chilling Kolby (Jack Palance) & Benjie will have to fight to keep his land This action-packed western is notable for being one of the first in the genre to deal with the racial prejudice of whites against blacks & Native Americans