The Big Land (1957)
Oh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock.
Gênero : Romance, Faroeste
Runtime : 1H 32M
Director : Gordon Douglas
Escritor : David Dortort
Sinopse
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
Duas famílias de fazendeiros texanos, lutam durante anos pela posse de um sítio pequeno, de onde vem água necessária a seus rebanhos e plantações. A personagem principal é a Terra e, como pano de fundo os grandes latifúndios do Texas, motivo pelo qual este primoroso filme foi fotografado em tela larga, pelo processo Technirama. Faroeste de alto nível, dirigido pela mão segura de Wyler, com elenco vigoroso, trilha sonora e música excepcional de Jerome Moross. Oscar de coadjuvante para Burl Ives.
John Wayne lutou contra índios, domou cavalos selvagens, lutou guerras e pilotou aviões. Mas foi neste filme que ele pode demonstrar todo o seu talento em uma performance arrebatadora. Desta vez, ele é um vaqueiro experiente que abandonado por seu ajudantes, contrata um grupo de 11 garotos para ajudá-lo a levar seu gado em uma jornada emocionante que irá mudar a vida de todos. E quando a poeira baixar, você vai saber por que John Wayne é um dos maiores astros que o cinema já viu. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
O jovem Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) fica encarregado de cuidar do rancho da família, junto com sua mãe e seu irmão mais novo, quando o pai dele viaja para levar uma boiada, na década de 1860. O pequeno Arliss Coates (Kevin Cocoran) acha um cão amarelo perdido na fazenda e resolve dar abrigo, mesmo com a resistência do irmão mais velho Travis. Logo, o cão passa a ser muito amado por todos, mas o seu tempo junto à família pode não durar muito.
A high school science teacher takes his students on a field trip to see a UFO sighting. What they didn't expect, was that it was a flying saucer that crashed a farm house, and an alien predator feeds on humans, killing each student one by one!
O barão de gado John Chisum (John Wayne) junta forças com Billy the Kid (Geoffrey Deuel) e Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett) para lutar na guerra por terras no Condado de Lincoln. Como um dos fundadores da cidade de Lincoln, John Chisum (John Wayne) fica cada vez mais preocupado quando Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) começa a controlar as lojas locais, o banco e as terras por meios questionáveis. Chisum e o honesto proprietário de rancho Henry Tunstall (Patric Knowles) tentam usar a lei, mas Murphy também controla a justiça. Com a ameaça de confronto Billy Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel), um vaqueiro de Tunstall, logo se envolve. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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.
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Há 6 anos atrás a NASA enviou uma sonda para o espaço para recolher amostras de possível vida alienígena. Ao regressar a sonda caiu na América Central, e pouco tempo depois uma nova forma de vida apareceu no México, colocando metade do México com zona de quarentena na tentativa de conter as criaturas.
Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex Allen and Gabriel Horne to Pete's lifeless body. They set out to find the killer and run into trouble near Silver City, Arizona, when they rescue Katie McIntosh from a gang that is chasing her buckboard.
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Depois de cinco anos preso, acusado de destruir a cidade quando estava bêbado, um homem é contratado pelo mesmo fazendeiro para quem trabalhava cuidando de gado. Porém, um fazendeiro rival contrata o mesmo homem para guiar seu rebanho, declarando uma guerra na cidade
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who intercepted his mail, rustled the Warren cattle, took over the Warren ranch, and is now after Ted's girl friend. When Kent's henchmen fail to kill Ted, Kent shoots Ted's father and leaves him for dead. But only wounded, the plan is to have Warren appear as a ghost to get a confession from Kent.
Spencer Tracy, é o patriarca de uma família de criadores de gado que vê tudo desmoronar quando seu filho mais novo é preso por defender as terras da família contra um grupo de mineiros que polui a região.
Quando Santee (Rory Calhoun) descobre que a mulher que ama se casou com o xerife de uma cidade, ele se une a um desonesto latifundiário e faz de tudo para destruir a reputação do lugar, impedindo que uma nova ferrovia seja construída por lá.
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
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A rancher's (George Montgomery) foreman (Peter Graves) schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother
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Durante os últimos meses da Guerra Civil, o irmão de Joe é injustamente morto por Clifford, um capitão do exército do Norte. Joe decide juntar-se a um grupo de sulistas determinados a resistir até ao fim.
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
1877, the tribe of the Nez Percés Indians are driven into the reservation by a white cavalry force. So that they can not escape, their horses are requisitioned. Sub-chief "White Feather" has no choice but to make a scout with the cavalry and retrieve the stolen horses through his life.
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Para encontrar o ouro roubado, agente do Governo trabalha secretamente com um fora da lei.