Heritage of the Desert (1939)
Zane Grey's pen... again sends a devil-may-care youth... on an exciting trail of adventure and romance.
ジャンル : 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 13分
演出 : Lesley Selander
脚本 : Norman Houston
シノプシス
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
何かとトラブルを引き起こしてばかりのアラン。そんな彼の父親が心労を募らせて急死したのを機に、フィル、ステュ、ダグはアランの施設収容を決行することに。だが、施設へと向かう途中でギャングに4人が誘拐されてしまう。困惑するフィルたちに、ギャングのボスはアランがメル友として親交のあるアジア系ギャングのチャウが盗んだ金塊を取り戻すよう命じる。
ネバダの砂漠地帯にある小さな田舎町に突然出現した未知の生物。地中を自在に移動する巨大な蛇状モンスターと住民の攻防が、白昼の下で展開される。「JAWS／ジョーズ」のプロットを使った作品は数限りないが、地表を波立たせて襲い来るこのモンスターは文字通り“陸のジョーズ”で、映画の出来も本家に迫るものがある。モンスターの設定から、それを有効に生かしきったストーリーまで、とにかくアイディア豊富で、存分に楽しめる怪獣映画の快作。TVムービーによる続編「トレマーズ2」も製作された。
激しい豪雨が降り続く夜、人里離れた一軒のモーテル。管理人ラリーがくつろいでいるところへ、ひとりの男が飛び込んでくる。彼、ジョージは息子ティミーを伴い、交通事故で大ケガをした妻アリスを運び込む。救助を要請しようとするが電話は不通だった。アリスをはねたのは女優キャロラインの運転手で元警官のエド。彼は病院へ向け車を走らせるが、途中で立ち往生し、やむなくモーテルへ引き返すことに…。ある時、ある一室で、既に死刑判決の下った事件について再審理が行われようとしている。ポイントとなっているのは、その事件の連続殺人犯である囚人が書いた日記だった。
人間にペットとして飼われているが、TV番組のヒーローに憧れるカメレオン。車で飼い主と移動中に事故に遭い、入っていた水槽ごと砂漠に放り出されてしまう。初めて広い世界に出たカメレオンは途方に暮れるが、寂れた荒野の町“ダートタウン”にさまよい着く。酒場で町の住人たちにランゴと名乗ったカメレオンは、でたらめな武勇伝を語った結果、町の保安官に任命されてしまう。その頃、町は深刻な水不足に見舞われていた。
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The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
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。
Mitch Robbins 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
アメリカ西部の砂漠で、突然、夫と別れたドイツ人旅行者ジャスミン。その砂漠で、家庭も仕事もうまくいかず、日々ストレスを抱え込むカフェ＆モーテルのボス、ブレンダ。打ち解けるはずのない二人が、やがてかけがいのない友情で結ばれていく。
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A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel premiered "Ghost Adventures," a raw documentary in which 3 men go to Virginia City, NV and Goldfield, NV on a ghost hunting expedition. Virginia City is rife with macabre lore and reputed to be one of the most haunted cities in America. Ghost Adventures has won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary that was given by the New York International Film & Video Festival.
A group of women contracted a strange fever and a former sheriff is responsible for taking them to the hospital in the nearest town, but in their way they will encounter a gang of murderers. His only hope is a woman whose beauty is matched only by his skill with weapons.
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
