"The bigger they come, the harder Tom Keene makes them fall!"
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
Tom Keene
Jim Reid
Betty Compson
Roxey Moore
Charlotte Henry
Betty Briggs
Charles King
Red Gentry
Billy Bletcher
Sandy Briggs
James Sheridan
Pete (Red's Henchman)
Eddie Parker
Bill Briggs, RCMP (as Ed Parker)
Robert McKenzie
Ed (Middleton Storekeeper)
Merrill McCormick
Brokaw
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
The slightly cherubic looking Tom Keene is "Reid" - sworn to avenge the murder of his father in a robbery at the hands of "Red Gentry" (Charles King). "Gentry" has abandoned girlfriend "Roxey" (Betty Compson) and so the pair hook up to track him down. En route, they discover some gold too - and with local blacksmith "Sandy" (Billy Bletcher) they agree to share any proceeds from their claim. Still with me? Phew... anyway, "Reid" takes a bit of a shine to their new partner's daughter "Betty" (Charlotte Henry) but must settle with his antagonist (who has fled to Canada where he has become a thorn in the side of the RCMP) before they can settle down and enjoy their new found wealth. Compson probably steals the show, Keene just sort of bumbles along - but it does have quite an enjoyable denouement and kills an hour of anyone's time if you like the genre - and the cheaper end of those productions at that.
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 con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
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.
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Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.