无论驾驭何种类型片，霍华德·霍克斯始终遵循自己的艺术法则，这一点在其首部西部片中体现得尤为深刻。这部粗犷不羁又睿智犀利的作品，让约翰·韦恩迎来了演艺生涯的重要突破——他将一位饱经风霜、性情专横的得克萨斯牧场主演绎得入木三分。影片中，韦恩与初登银幕便光芒四射的蒙哥马利·克利夫特饰演的独立养子矛盾不断，在前往密苏里州的贩牛旅程中，两人的冲突逐渐升级为史诗级对决。本片改编自小说，其原型是十九世纪末沿奇泽姆牧道发生的真实远征，但霍克斯无意还原历史细节，而是着力颠覆那些驱动美国西部神话的男性准则。阳刚气概十足的韦恩与敏感稚嫩的克利夫特形成了奇妙而完美的反差，二者在层次丰富的机智对白与霍克斯精湛的导演调度下相得益彰。
John Wayne
Thomas Dunson
Montgomery Clift
Matthew Garth
Joanne Dru
Tess Millay
Walter Brennan
'Groot' Nadine
Coleen Gray
Fen
Harry Carey
Mr. Melville
John Ireland
Cherry Valance
Noah Beery Jr.
Buster McGee
Harry Carey, Jr.
Dan Latimer
无论驾驭何种类型片，霍华德·霍克斯始终遵循自己的艺术法则，这一点在其首部西部片中体现得尤为深刻。这部粗犷不羁又睿智犀利的作品，让约翰·韦恩迎来了演艺生涯的重要突破——他将一位饱经风霜、性情专横的得克萨斯牧场主演绎得入木三分。影片中，韦恩与初登银幕便光芒四射的蒙哥马利·克利夫特饰演的独立养子矛盾不断，在前往密苏里州的贩牛旅程中，两人的冲突逐渐升级为史诗级对决。本片改编自小说，其原型是十九世纪末沿奇泽姆牧道发生的真实远征，但霍克斯无意还原历史细节，而是着力颠覆那些驱动美国西部神话的男性准则。阳刚气概十足的韦恩与敏感稚嫩的克利夫特形成了奇妙而完美的反差，二者在层次丰富的机智对白与霍克斯精湛的导演调度下相得益彰。
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
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.
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.
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
