The Pony Express

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

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 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.

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.

1970 yılında John Wayne canlandırdığı korkusuz ve tek gözlü Rooster Cogburn rolüyle Oscar® almış ve unutulmaz bir performans sergilemişti. Rooster Cogburn, genç bir kadın tarafından (Kim Darby), babasını öldüren ve ailenin tüm parasıyla ortadan kaybolan adamı bulmak üzere kiralanır. Genç kadın bu yolculukta Cogburn'e eşlik etmek konusunda ısrarlıdır. Yanlarına tecrübesiz bir Texas polisinin (Glen Campbell) katılışıyla işler iyice karışır. Bu sıradışı Western'e Robert Duvall ve Strother Martin de performanslarıyla katılmakta.