The Loafer
The forceful reformation of a lazy scrounger.
The forceful reformation of a lazy scrounger.
Arthur Mackley
Joe Simmons - the Town Loafer
Julia Mackley
Mrs. Joe Simmons
Marguerite Todd
Simmons' Daughter
Harry Todd
Jim Wrayburn
Margaret Joslin
Mrs. Jim Wrayburn
Brinsley Shaw
Kite Robinson
Augustus Carney
Victor Potel
The forceful reformation of a lazy scrounger.
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
A scorned woman enlists the help of five strangers to execute a bank robbery. Tensions rise as the men anxiously await her arrival with the money, leaving the crew to wonder if they have been betrayed.
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.