
Journeying from Mexico back home to West Texas, mercenary Tom Buchanan takes a break for the night in the border town of Agry. He soon discovers that almost every resident -- from the crooked sheriff to the shifty-eyed innkeeper -- is a member of the prominent Agry family. When Buchanan defends Juan de la Vega, a young man about to be lynched for shooting the town drunk, he himself is accused of murder and must struggle to escape town alive.
Journeying from Mexico back home to West Texas, mercenary Tom Buchanan takes a break for the night in the border town of Agry. He soon discovers that almost every resident -- from the crooked sheriff to the shifty-eyed innkeeper -- is a member of the prominent Agry family. When Buchanan defends Juan de la Vega, a young man about to be lynched for shooting the town drunk, he himself is accused of murder and must struggle to escape town alive.

Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife (Valerie French) threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand (Rod Steiger) complicates matters by spreading lies.

Panic strikes Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) when her outlaw husband John returns to their farm with bullet wounds. Expecting the worst, she brings her young daughter to safety and travels to the home of Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton), a boozing ex-lover who may be her only hope. With Dan now on her side, Jane prepares for a showdown with the vengeful John Bishop and his gang of thugs. Looking to settle an old score, Bishop must now contend with the gun-toting Jane and her new partner.

After an outlaw named Tom Chaney murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross hires Rooster Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney and avenge her father. The bickering duo are not alone in their quest, for a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf is also tracking Chaney for reasons of his own. Together the unlikely trio ventures into hostile territory to dispense some Old West justice.

After his family moves to a frontier town in Kansas, city-bred teenager Billy Bonney (Michael J. Pollard) finds he has no appetite for farming. He runs away, taking up with local outlaw Goldie (Richard Evans), who operates a saloon in town with the help of a prostitute named Berle (Lee Purcell). The three form a gang of sorts, menacing the locals until the townsfolk collectively decide to drive the outlaws away. Bonney escapes and begins the life of crime that makes him famous as Billy the Kid.
A federal agent (George Montgomery) and two colleagues infiltrate a gang of gold-rush gold smugglers.
After lying about being a stuntman, a blowhard (Buck Jones) gets the chance to prove himself to a movie studio.
A bounty hunter kills a wanted criminal but can't collect the reward because townspeople refuse to identify the victim.
Shawnee chief Tecumseh (Jay Silverheels) helps a government agent (Jon Hall) catch traitors before the War of 1812.