Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal 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.
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.
Arizona’da çiftlik sahibi despot bir babanın giderek ailesini felakete sürükleyişi ve oğulları arasındaki kavganın giderek büyümesini konu alan ilgi çekici bir Western. Film gösterime girdiği yıl sinemalarda hasılat rekoru kırarak, öykü dalında da Oscar almıştır.
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.
Çevresindeki hiç kimseyi umursamayan, kuralları kendisine göre yorumlayarak istediğini yapan Hud, herkesin saygı duyduğu bir çiftçi olan yaşlı babasıyla da sürekli tartışmaktadır. Film, Hud’a büyük hayranlık besleyen ölen ağabeyini oğlu Lon’da çok geçmeden onun entrikalarının farkına varacaktır. Bir dönemi ve o dönemin hızla değişen değerlerini genç jenerasyon üzerinden usta bir dille anlatıyor.
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.