Western

A “big” western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander.

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a ‘girl biographer’.

This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn.

A laconic drifter, who calls himself Nebraska, is hired as a ranch hand by Marthy Hillman and his wife Kay who are under pressure from a ruthless landowner

Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war…and for Taza’s betrothed, Oona.

Saloon entertainer Vermilion O’Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline.

Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory’s Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest.

Edward Beale is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west.

Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan.

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry.