A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.

When the outlaw Pinto Sykes is gunned downed after being ambushed by the men in his hometown, Pinto vows revenge on the gun-for-hire that the men sent after him. When Conny Miller, the man hired to bring Sykes to justice arrives in town following the ambush, he is told of Sykes deathbed vow: if Miller ever comes near his grave, he'll reach up and have his revenge. Thinking that Miller was scared of Sykes, the men of town bet him to go to his grave, and soon discover that vengeance, even from beyond the grave, is a powerful thing.