Trigger Law (1944)

J・ウェイン、D・マーティン共演、町の実力者の弟を逮捕した保安官チャンスが、わずかな手勢で一味の勢力に立ち向かう、ハワード・ホークス監督の傑作娯楽ウエスタン。 メキシコ国境の町リオ・ブラボー。保安官チャンスは、酒場のゴタゴタから人を殺したジョーという男を逮捕した。ジョーの兄ネイサンは手下を集め、釈放を求めてチャンスを脅迫する。チャンスはわずかな手勢で、ネイサン一派を迎え撃つが……。

アパッチ族におびえながら荒野を走る駅馬車に、脱獄囚リンゴが同乗、アパッチの追撃をかわしてゆくが……。映画史に残る西部劇の決定版として知られるジョン・ウェイン主演の名作。

巨匠ジョン・フォードが、近代化の波が押し寄せ、時代が移り変わる西部を舞台に、素朴な人間性と男の友情を詩情豊かに描く、名優ジョン・ウェイン×ジェームズ・スチュワート共演の傑作西部劇。 東部の大学で法律を学び、西部の小さな町シンボーンへやって来た青年弁護士のランスは、途中、無法者のリバティ・バランス一味に襲われて重傷を負う。牧場主で銃の名手トムとその恋人ハリーに救われたランスは、町の新聞社編集長のピーボディと協力して無法者一味に対抗することを決意する…。

雪が降りしきる中で馬を失った賞金稼ぎマーキスは、同業であるジョンと彼が捕らえたデイジーを乗せた駅馬車に同乗する。途中で保安官を名乗るクリスを拾った馬車は、猛吹雪から避難するためにミニーの紳士洋品店へ。メキシコ人の店番ボブや怪しげな絞首刑執行人オズワルドなどの存在にジョンが強い警戒心を抱く中で事件が起こる。

荒唐無稽なものから深遠な話まで、コーエン兄弟ならではの味わいあふれるアンソロジー。アメリカ西部を駆け抜けた無法者や開拓者たちの6つの冒険物語。

悪徳牧場主・マッキューンが牛耳るワーロックの町。人々は凄腕の雇われ暴力保安官を呼び寄せるものの、町は思わぬ代償を払わされることになり……。リチャード・ウィドマーク、ヘンリー・フォンダ共演による異色西部劇。

牧場主が殺されて牛が盗まれた、という街に通りかかった2人の放浪者。彼らは町民と協力して自警団を組み、牛を連れた怪しい3人組を追い詰めるが……。実話をもとに製作された重厚な西部劇。

白人でありながらアパッチ族に育てられたジョン。養父から遺産としてもらった下宿屋を売り払い、駅馬車に乗って南へ向かうが……。ポール・ニューマン、フレデリック・マーチの熱演も見ものの異色ウエスタン。

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

私生児として育ち町中からバカにされていたスコットは、憧れのガンマンに弟子入りする。厳しく非常なガンマンの心得を身に付けたスコットは、しだいに人柄が変わり、師匠のやり方に疑問を持ちはじめ……。

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.

Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher. When Usher learns that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to hold her for ransom. Tension builds over the next 24 hours as Usher awaits a response to his demands and as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta.

サム・ペキンパー監督が、古き良き開拓時代への惜別を込めて描く異色の西部劇。時代の流れに取り残された一人の男の風変わりな復讐譚がセンチメンタルに綴られてゆく。仲間に裏切られて砂漠の真ん中で一人取り残された主人公ケーブル・ホーグ。着の身着のままのケーブルは4日間歩き続けてついに水を掘り当て命拾いした。近くに駅馬車の通り道があると知ったケーブルはそこに給水所を作り、裏切り者が現われるのを待伏せるため、たった一人で砂漠生活を始めるのだった…。

Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.

A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go round that these men have been caught. Can you guess where the outlaws decide to hide out while they plan a large gold robbery? What follows is a film that concentrates on small details (like attempts to slip a warning note to a passing stage, or to reach a hidden gun that the bad guys don't know about) as the captives try anything to get away from the outlaws.