Build a movie plot around this: Which place is Regret being returned to? New Orleans
The story opens in 1843,New Orleans.Roguish gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) has a duel with a man and despite attempting to just try and wound him when he fires at him,he kills him.When he discovers that the man is in fact the son of a Louisiana judge,he goes on the run to escape the death penalty.Whilst on a riverboat,he meets a mysterious woman called Pilar (Ina Bolin), who is in the company of a man called Amelung (Michael Ansarra).In their brief meeting,they fall for each other.The next morning,Texas ranger,captain Jake Cutter (John Wayne) turns up in his room to arrest him.His assignment is to take him to the Texas rangers headquarters ready to be picked up by a Louisiana marshal.Before they depart the boat,Regret wants to say goodbye to Pilar but she's gone.With Jake on horse and Regret on a mule,the two travel across the plains.They come to a ranch that Jake used to own.Once his wife died,he decided to sell it to a family.As Jake is looking at the family home,he notices some trouble.The ranch has been attacked by a tribe of Indians and the family have been massacred.After helping Jake to bury the victims,Regret sees an opportunity to escape.He knocks Jake out with a shovel to his head and takes the horse,leaving Jake with the mule.A while later in Texas,a man is arrested for gun running and he tells Jake and Major Henry (Bruce Cabot) that he was on his way to a town called Sweetwater to sell the rifles to a contact that he's never met before.Jake goes undercover and takes the man's place as a gunrunner,in order to go and meet the contact.He buries the rifles and arrives at an hotel in Sweetwater to meet Tully Crows (Lee Marvin),an half-scalped man.Crows tells Jake that his scalping was the act of a Comanche tribe and before he was killed,he was saved by a group called the Comancheros - the gunmen he's now working for.Jake tells Crows that he's buried the guns because he wasn't sure if he could trust him.The two go on a night out to get to know each other before they make a deal.First they get...