Saddle Sores

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

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.

จากนิยายของโธมัส ฮาร์ดี้ กลายเป็นภาพยนตร์ที่ว่าด้วยเรื่องราวของความรัก การต่อสู้ ความเสน่หา และการไถ่บาป โดยมีฉากหลังคือภูมิประเทศที่กว้างใหญ่และแสนหฤโหดของเทือกเขาร็อคกี้ เพียงเพื่อคว้าโชคของเขา ชายหนุ่มคนหนึ่ง นาม ดิลลอน (ปีเตอร์ มูลแลน) ได้ตัดสินใจครั้งใหญ่อันนำมาซึ่งชะตากรรมของคนหลายคน เมื่อเขายอมขายเมียและลูกเพื่อแลกกับทองคำเพียงถุงดียว 20 ปีต่อมา ดิลลอนกลายเป็นเจ้าของเมือง คิงดอม คัม เมืองเหมืองแร่ที่เจริญรุงเรือง ทว่าโลกของเขากลับถูกคุมคาม เมื่ออดีตอันเลวร้ายที่พยายามลืมมัน ได้กลับมาทวงถามดิลลอนอีกครั้ง

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.