Pinky, an orphan misses her parents, writes a letter to god requesting him to send them back so that she can spend time with them. Unfortunately, that letter falls in the hands of the local gangster, whose leader comes up with a plan to kidnap the girl for ransom.
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.
Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.