Cold Nerve

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.

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

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.

En çok at çalmakla bilinen bir çetenin reisi olan Tom, Missouri'de, Montana bölgesinde geniş bir arazi alır. Amacı buraya yerleşmek, sonra öldürülen arkadaşının intikamını almak için fırsat kollamaktadır. Bölgenin güçlü adamı durumu farkedince hızlı ve acımasız Clayton'u çağırır, böylece Tom ve Clayton karşı karşıya gelir. Penn'in tipik western öğelerini kullanıp bir anti-western yapmaya çalıştığı filmde Marlon Brado'nun ilginç tiplemesi ve Jack Nicholson'un oyunculuğu dikkat çekiyor..

Arizonalı emektar bir şerifin karısının öldürüldüğü sırada, olay yerinde bulunan bir meksika göçmeninin üzerinden, hem bireysel silahlanma, hem son yılların en önemli problemlerinden biri olan göçmenlik müessesesine değinen film; bireysel sorularını cevaplandırmak için bu çorak coğrafyayı altını üstüne getiren şerifin mücadelesini anlatıyor!

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.