black/white movie confederate soldiers gun smuggling

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Overview of the initial edits and cuts to the film and effort made to restore the missing footage

Three years after the Civil War, a U.S. Army cavalry troop is hot on the trail of Virgil Moss (Brian Abercrombie), a Confederate veteran who's hiding an outlawed rebel battle flag. As the cavalry troop pursues Virgil through the rugged and treacherous Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, a freed slave (Charles Black) traps Virgil and uses him as a bargaining chip in exchange for his own freedom.

During the American Civil War, a duo consisting of an optimistic gunslinger and his assistant attempt to safely cross an African escapee to Iowa from Missouri. However, this trek soon becomes a threat when the three are caught by a slave patrol. As a tense conversation slurs, it soon becomes obvious that a shootout is the only result.

Caught selling stolen guns, three Confederate soldiers get a reprieve from the firing squad, provided they go into Mexico on a mission to recover stolen gold belonging to the Confederacy.

A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.

Two slave brothers, one black, one an albino, discover a treasure map which is taken from them by their foreman. They take it back but are pursued by the foreman. Originally, the foreman seeks the aid of two bounty hunters who pursue the protagonists throughout the film. At the end, both the foreman and the bounty hunters catch up with the two escaped slaves, and the foreman has a change of heart, helping to kill the bounty hunters.

A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.

The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.