
Deputy Jess Carlin (Audie Murphy) leaves his Texas hometown in disgrace, framed by corrupt saloon owner Luke Starr (Broderick Crawford) for a crime he didn't commit. When his brother, muckraking newspaper editor Roy Carlin (Víctor Vilanova), is murdered after printing an exposé of Starr's crooked deals, Carlin returns home from the Mexican border town where he's been holed up and enlists his brother's fiancée (Luz Márquez) and saloon dancer Kit O'Neal (Diana Lorys) to bring Starr down.
Deputy Jess Carlin (Audie Murphy) leaves his Texas hometown in disgrace, framed by corrupt saloon owner Luke Starr (Broderick Crawford) for a crime he didn't commit. When his brother, muckraking newspaper editor Roy Carlin (Víctor Vilanova), is murdered after printing an exposé of Starr's crooked deals, Carlin returns home from the Mexican border town where he's been holed up and enlists his brother's fiancée (Luz Márquez) and saloon dancer Kit O'Neal (Diana Lorys) to bring Starr down.
Circumstances transform a mild-mannered accountant (Johnny Depp) into a notorious Old West gunslinger.
The luck of Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) is about to go from bad to worse; after gambling his horse away, he gets a ride from Willard (John Hubbard) and Doretta Mims (Maureen O'Sullivan). Soon, their stagecoach is hijacked by a trio of merciless bandits, led by the especially heartless Frank Usher (Richard Boone). As Usher holds the coach passengers hostage, Brennan falls in love with Doretta and develops a risky plan to free himself and the Mimses, leading to a bloody final standoff.
Lawman John Corbett (Lee Van Cleef) searches the U.S.-Mexico border for a Mexican peasant (Tomas Milian) accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
The Cisco Kid and Pancho track an outlaw responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies and masquerading as the Kid.
Desperate for money, an outlaw (Jarret LeMaster) must spring a beautiful criminal (Michelle Acuna) from jail to collect a bounty.
When the local sheriff is killed after a bank robbery, ex-lawman Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray) collars the apparent killer, Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn). Because of his background as a local youth who spent time living with the Cutlers, Eddie gets the benefit of the doubt from Ben's daughter and his wife-to-be, Ruth (Margaret Hayes). Ben is firm in his belief that Eddie is guilty, and as the matter is debated in a divisive court battle, it will soon become clear whether he's right.
There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land's owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but Frank kills him instead and pins it on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a mysterious gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson) and McBain's new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town.
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.