La ballade de Buster Scruggs est un western d'anthologie en six volets mettant en scène les légendes du Far West vues par les incomparables réalisateurs et scénaristes Joel et Ethan Coen. Chaque chapitre est consacré à une histoire différente de l'Ouest américain.
Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life by their mother but presented to the world by their father. Kino Kopf is the next big sensation and spurs a technological revolution. They are soon forgotten and alone as new models surpass them. Kino Kopf is left alone to contemplate if they ever had a soul, as visions of an electric cowboy dance through their dreams.
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
Tom est un cow-boy dans un ranch au Texax. Il passe son temps à torturer Jerry, quand une belle chatte vient pour une visite. Tom utilise alors Jerry comme un moyen d'impressionner la dame. Naturellement, Jerry essaye de saboter les avances de Tom.
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette et les Sons of the Pioneers vont sous couverture pour aider le gouverneur du Texas Russell Hicks à empêcher les sympathisants de l'Axe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale de faire exploser des entrepôts américains.
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Deux vendeurs de friandises travaillant sur des rodéos ont des ennuis avec leur patron. Pour lui échapper, ils montent dans un train roulant vers le Far West. Là-bas, ils se font engager comme cow-boys alors qu'ils ne connaissent rien au métier …
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
Kincade contrôle la réserve d'eau afin d'obliger les paysans de payer des taxes exhorbitantes pour en utiliser. Agent du gouvernement Saunders décide d'assècher les réserves de Kincade en réouvrant l'ancienne rivière.
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until escaped convict Smitty arrives with plans of taking over and opening the town up as a gambling resort. It's up to Rex Allen and his pals to put a stop to it and sing a few songs along the way.
Hughie Mack, un chanteur de l'ouest, dont le piètre talent est loin d'attirer les foules, est découvert par la productrice Clover Doyle, qui veut faire de lui la vedette de son prochain film. Son nom est changé en Slim Carter, et une campagne de promotion est lancée. Leo Gallagher, un orphelin, gagne le concours pour passer un mois avec Slim. C'est pour ce dernier le début d'un long et terrible calvaire sous le ciel de l'ouest.
Les méchants complotent pour tromper une jeune fille de l'Est nouvellement arrivée d'un ranch qui appartient à sa pupille infantile. Roy, bien sûr, sauve le ranch pour la fille. Les chansons incluent "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral", "It's a No Good Son of a Gun", "Sandman Lullaby", "Song of the San Joaquin" et "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller".
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele et Panhandle Perkins sont envoyés dans le district de Rawhide pour enquêter sur les meurtres de plusieurs éleveurs. Tex entre dans la ville en se faisant passer pour un clochard tandis que les deux autres Rangers rejoignent une troupe de ménestrels itinérants.
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.
In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery. The situation escalates when one of the stage drivers is mortally wounded; so the marshal sends for his friends, the Range Busters, to help him catch the criminals. Meanwhile, even the marshal's fiancee, the editor's daughter, turns against him in favor of an aggressive agitator for law and order - who secretly is leading the robber gang.
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed to the ranch of J.C. Morgan (Shirley Patterson to buy cavalry remounts for the Army. At the ranch, they find out that J.C. is a girl. The nearby town of Dow City is under the control of a lawless trio headed by Trigger (Lee Roberts, Clem Kensington (Foxy Callahan) and Joe Morino (Dennis Moore). A member of the gang is Tucson Brown (Lee Bennett), one of J.C.'s trusted hands. When Eddie decides to buy the horses, Tucson steals the herd to prevent the sale. Soldiers, sent to investigate, are brutally murdered. The aroused townspeople elect Tennessee (William Fawcett, J.C.'s foreman, as sheriff. When the outlaws murder Tennessee, Eddie and Soapy, along with the reformed Tucson, swing into action.