War on the Plains

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

เรื่องราวของหนังดำเนินขึ้นระหว่างปี 1839 – 1889 แบ่งออกเป็น 5 ตอน นำเสนอผ่าน 4 รุ่นของครอบครัว Prescotts นำโดยพ่อ Zebulon (รับบทโดย Karl Malden) พาครอบครัวออกเดินทางล่องเรือจาก New York ผ่านคลองขุด Erie Canal มุ่งหน้าสู่ดินแดนตะวันตก

Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.

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 group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

ยูล บรีนเนอร์นำแสดงในบทหนึ่งในเจ็ดสุดยอดมือปืนที่ต่อสู้กับกองทัพโจรปล้นสะดม ในภาพยนตร์แอ็กชันระทึกใจเรื่องนี้ ซึ่งเป็นเรื่องที่เริ่มต้นอาชีพของสตีฟ แม็คควีน, ชาร์ลส์ บรอนสัน และเจมส์ โคเบิร์น

ไมเคิล วินเนอร์ในบทบาทนายอำเภอแถบตะวันตกที่มุ่งมั่นที่จะนำความยุติธรรมมาสู่ชาวไร่และลูกน้องของเขาที่ดันพลั้งมือฆ่าชายชราโดยไม่ได้ตั้งใจเพราะความเมา ร่วมแสดงโดยโรเบิร์ต ไรอันและโรเบิร์ต ดูวัล

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

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.