Frontier Badmen (1943)
A country-side up in arms...whole towns terror-stricken...as the most daring desperados in history strike again!
ジャンル : 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 13分
演出 : Ford Beebe
脚本 : Gerald Geraghty, Morgan Cox
シノプシス
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.
バイオレンス映画の巨匠サム・ペキンパー監督が、20世紀初頭のメキシコを舞台に滅びゆくアウトローたちの姿を描いた傑作西部劇。1913年、アメリカ・テキサスでの銀行強盗に失敗したパイクら強盗団はメキシコに逃走する。旧友ソーントンら賞金稼ぎに追われる中、メキシコ政府のマパッチ将軍の依頼で米軍用列車から武器を強奪するパイクたちだったが、マパッチの裏切りに遭い、仲間を人質に取られてしまう……。スローモーションに細かいカットを挿入するペキンパーのアクション演出は後続に大きな影響を与えた。出演はウィリアム・ホールデン、アーネスト・ボーグナイン。
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……。
ニューオーリンズの地方検事であるジム・ギャリソンは、昼食中に大統領暗殺の第一報を受けた。しかし、直後に逮捕されるリー・ハーヴェイ・オズワルドという人物に、彼は大多数のアメリカ人とは別のショックを受ける。ニューオーリンズの法曹関係者の間ではオズワルドという男は有名人であったからである。 オズワルドは不思議な過去を持ち、奇行を繰り返し、キューバ人の団体とトラブルを起こしていた人物だった。彼はすぐにこの人物の調査を始めるも、大統領暗殺事件の二日後にさらに事件が起こった。マスコミや大勢の警官がいるさなか、オズワルドが警察署の中でジャック・ルビーという男に射殺されたのだ。
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
家畜泥棒の濡れ衣を着せられ、9人のカウボーイたちに縛り首にされたジェド・クーパー。連邦法執行官に命を助けられた彼は、自身が執行官となって町に戻り……。男の復讐を描いた西部劇の定番。
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
銀行強盗をしたマッコイは、ギャングに渡すはずの金を持って逃走した。彼を追うギャングをかわしながら、マッコイは妻と共にメキシコをめざす。スリリングなチェイスが全編に渡って展開するサム・ペキンパー監督によるアクション・サスペンス。
An 8-year old boy invents a hand-held computer which can control any electronic device, and uses it to affect the entire town where he lives.
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
A disaffected Texas teen spends his 16th birthday getting high, hanging out and having casual sex.
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama.
A high school teacher in Austin, Texas takes sexual advantage over one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the details of the relationship are exposed.
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
In 1953 the entire population of Wicksboro, Texas vanishes. Forty five years later a witness comes out of hiding to tell the story.
Director Nicole Torre directed this documentary about the America´s oil industry. The Oil Barons, Wildcatters, and roughnecks and their long struggle to feed America's ferocious oil appetite. Step inside the oil culture to understand just how the USA became so addicted and why Houston believes we must go "Green" for a secure domestic energy future. .