The Washerwoman's War
The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western about the title character's battle against the various men making her life difficult.
The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western about the title character's battle against the various men making her life difficult.
Nell Shipman
The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western about the title character's battle against the various men making her life difficult.
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.
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.
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
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.
เรื่องราวของหนังดำเนินขึ้นระหว่างปี 1839 – 1889 แบ่งออกเป็น 5 ตอน นำเสนอผ่าน 4 รุ่นของครอบครัว Prescotts นำโดยพ่อ Zebulon (รับบทโดย Karl Malden) พาครอบครัวออกเดินทางล่องเรือจาก New York ผ่านคลองขุด Erie Canal มุ่งหน้าสู่ดินแดนตะวันตก
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?
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
จอห์น เวย์น เป็นผู้ผลิต กำกับ และแสดงในภาพยนตร์ที่เล่าขานเกี่ยวกับศึกอลาโม ศึกนี้มีคนเข้าร่วมรบถึง 185 คนเพื่อต่อสู้กับกองทัพทหาร 7000 นาย การถ่ายทำทั้งหมดเกิดขึ้นในเทกซัส "ศึกอลาโม" เป็นผลงานที่น่าทึ่ง และเป็นการเฉลิมฉลองความกล้าหาญตามประวัติศาสตร์
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.