After years on the East Coast, former boxer Jack Mahoney returns to New Mexico and finds himself framed for murder. Though the only evidence is circumstantial, in the face of vicious prosecutor Kiefer, Mahoney's girlfriend—defense lawyer Gail Kingston—fails to convince the jury of his innocence. Determined to clear Mahoney's name, postal worker Steve Reynolds transforms himself into the masked rider known as the Durango Kid.
After years on the East Coast, former boxer Jack Mahoney returns to New Mexico and finds himself framed for murder. Though the only evidence is circumstantial, in the face of vicious prosecutor Kiefer, Mahoney's girlfriend—defense lawyer Gail Kingston—fails to convince the jury of his innocence. Determined to clear Mahoney's name, postal worker Steve Reynolds transforms himself into the masked rider known as the Durango Kid.
Texas Marshal Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) aspires to become a U.S. senator and believes that to do so, he must capture the gunslinger Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern). Recognizing a dangerous foe, Nightingale gathers a posse of ruthless law enforcers to track him down. His triumph seems imminent after the posse apprehends the outlaw's gang, though Strawhorn himself escapes. Nightingale's confidence is shaken, however, when arresting the elusive bandit proves politically complicated.
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.
A U.S. marshal (Kirk Douglas) leads a lynch-mob survivor, his daughter (Virginia Mayo) and others across the desert to justice.
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.
As the wealthiest and most powerful man in the Wild West town of Gun Hill, cattle rancher Craig Belden (Anthony Quinn) has come to believe he's above the law. When his son, Rick (Earl Holliman), rapes and murders a Native American woman (Ziva Rodann) married to U.S. marshal Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), Belden arrogantly declines to allow his son's arrest. The marshal, once a friend of Belden's, takes on the rancher's henchmen and Rick's accomplice (Brian Hutton) to bring the killer to justice.
Chased to a ghost town by a posse, an outlaw (Fred MacMurray) and his gang end up surrounded by Apaches.
A man whose life was saved by an outlaw shows his gratitude by reluctantly assisting in a stagecoach robbery.
In the early 1840s, cattle baron Devereaux Burke (Clark Gable) is tasked by President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) with an important diplomatic mission. Devereaux must convince soldier Sam Houston (Moroni Olsen) to help bring about the addition of Texas to the union. Along the way, Devereaux battles a pair of senators (Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley) who would rather create their own republic, and locks horns with a feisty newspaper reporter, Martha Ronda (Ava Gardner).