Henry Hathaway

A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.

"Night after night": A successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. "I'm no angel": The bold Tira works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. "Goin' to town": Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich and falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman. "Go west young man": A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee": Rightly...

Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....

With a band of outlaws on the loose, stationmaster Sam Todd and his tenderfoot underling Tom Owens force beauty Vinnie Holt and her infant niece off an incoming coach to wait in the safety of the station until law can be restored. But when the murderous bunch arrives to take control of the station, it will be up to the reserved Owens to outsmart the outlaws before they can execute their deadly plans.

A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.

Follows three generations of one family and their struggles in the west.