Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
En el verano de 1870, Averill e Irvine terminan sus estudios en la Universidad de Harvard. Veinte años después, viven en circunstancias muy distintas. Averill, más serio y visiblemente más viejo, se ha convertido en un "marshall" federal. Por su parte, Irvine, destruido y arruinado por la bebida, pero todavía en su sano juicio, es miembro de la asociación Stock Growers Agricultores, que está involucrada en un conflicto.
Jim Garry, un jinete solitario, tiene un encuentro fortuito con John Lufton y sus hombres. Lufton recela de él, creyendo que es uno de los pistoleros que está reclutando Tate Riling, un desalmado especulador que codicia el ganado de Lufton. Garry y Riling son viejos colegas y efectivamente Riling pretende contratar a Garry para llevar a cabo sus planes. Riling, además, se ha encargado de manipular a Carol, una de las hijas de Lufton; la otra, en cambio, la aguerrida Amy, se enamora de Garry, quien no tardará en enfrentarse con su antiguo amigo.
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
Spencer Tracy y Katharine Hepburn en una película sobre una rivalidad entre ganaderos y agricultores. Robert Walker es el crío gandul. Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry Carey, Edgar Buchanan, Robert Armstrong. Dirigida por Elia Kazan. Basada en la novela de Conrad Richter.
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.