Winter 1839. LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery (Jasen Wade) is tasked with watching Missouri's most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians' increased drive to remove the prisoners, and the prisoners' desperate efforts to survive, Tillery is pushed beyond what any lawman can endure. Based on actual recorded accounts, OUT OF LIBERTY is an intense, evocative western, with an outcome you have to see to believe.

　　天堂之门”似乎一直笼罩在票房惨败导致联艺公司破产的阴影之中，使得多数观众失去了对它的兴趣，甚至完全忽略了影片的本质。然而，迈克尔西米诺对美国中西部景致的壮美抒写，剧情一反主流电影善用紧张花哨的噱头，平实却不乏味，充满了对日常的诗意描写，也有许多有趣味的段落，一个边溜冰边拉小提琴的音乐家，在餐桌上迫不及待的脱光衣服享受性爱的女孩，火车上满载的西装革履的枪手……如果光以票房来衡量一部电影的优劣，未免太武断了，可怜这部作品白白背负了这么多年的骂名——BY:Herbsttag

　　After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.

　　本片描述一位刚退休的侦察兵，由于好心收留了一位曾经被印第安俘虏多年的白人女子及她那混血儿子，于是受到儿子的神秘杀手父亲追踪寻仇。全片三分之二以上的时间，是发生在西部山巅之间的追踪和暗杀。导演罗伯特．马利根扬弃一般西部片惯见的激烈枪战场面，着力以沉缓的镜头运动和富于悬疑色彩的构图来酝酿紧惊险的气氛。但是，由于导演过分着重惊险悬疑的气氛营造，对于剧情的充实，和角色内心世界的刻画就相对地显得简单而浮泛。格利高里．派克扮演老斥侯华纳，演来十分卖力，但表情稍嫌刻板化，不及扮演尼克的罗伯特．弗斯特那么灵活和讨好。

　　Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

　　Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.

　　Griff Bonnell (Sullivan) and his brothers arrive in a small, Arizona town. He is a U.S. Marshal looking to arrest Howard Swain (Chuck Roberson), coincidentally one of landowner Jessica Drummond’s (Stanwyck) 40 guns. The town is being terrorized and trashed by Brockie and his boys. He’s an arrogant drunk and bully but when he shoots an old buddy of Griff’s, he and his brothers intervene.
　　Griff strides purposefully towards the action, unconcerned at the mayhem going on. Brockie’s buddies recognize the lawman and flee but the drunk Brockie doesn’t know or care. Fuller cuts back and forth between a close-up of Griff’s eyes and Brockie’s gun repeatedly until the climax when Griff finally reaches Rocky and knocks him unconscious with a punch. Griff and Jessica inevitably cross paths and their relationship starts off as antagonistic but eventually blossoms into a romance.

　　故事发生在1897年，Print Ritter 和他的远方侄儿Tom Harte不情愿地成了5个被虐待和抛弃的中国女孩的保护神。Ritter和Harte运送马匹、照料女孩们的同时，还要避开一帮为了私利想要绑架女孩们的仇恶对手……

　　In this Western starring Tom Berenger and Trace Adkins, the action begins as Kansas Red (Drew Waters, "True Detective") rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout. The boy asks Red for help protecting his family from outlaw Thorn (Adkins), who's just kidnapped Billy's mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into beautiful, tough-as-nails Leslie, who's managed to escape Thorn's men. The three race to stop Thorn's wedding to Carol with guns a-blazing -- but does she want to be rescued?

　　三个好朋友被他们的老板派到到一个偏远的小饭馆去阻止一起毒品交易，他们想也没想就上路了。可是当他们到了地方，完成了工作，却发现自己已经走进了老板设下的圈套。而事情也绝非是看上去那么简单。

　　故事发生在1906年的俄克拉荷马州，亨利（蒂姆·布雷克·尼尔森 Tim Blake Nelson 饰）带着儿子怀亚特（加文·刘易斯 Gavin Lewis 饰）来到这里定居，开始经营农场。早在十年前，亨利的妻子就去世了，这些年来，亨利一直希望自己能够教会怀亚特如何自食其力，亨利的姐夫艾尔（特雷斯·阿德金斯 Trace Adkins 饰）是这个家庭唯一的帮手。
　　一天，亨利在路边遇见了一个受伤的男人科里（斯科特·黑兹 Scott Haze 饰），和他在一起的，还有一把枪和一袋子钱。亨利将科里带回了家，藏起了武器和钱，但很快，他就知道自己惹了麻烦，因为一群自称是警察的人来到了亨利家要讲科里带走，他们正在调查一宗银行抢劫案。

　　作为一个在得克萨斯州长大的年轻女孩，汉娜曾躲在隐蔽的角落，亲眼目睹法兰克·麦克墨菲为了偷窃他们的马匹而屠杀她的家人。她因失去双亲被送入孤儿院，不久之后便遇见艾瑟姆·达特，此人传授给她赏金猎人的全部技巧。艾瑟姆·达特毫无疑问是一位闻名遐迩的边境枪手。他不是唯一一位出现在汉娜的法律这部电影中的真实历史人物。我们将看到她在两位潜在追求者之间徘徊犹豫——警察局副局长怀亚特·厄普和牙医约翰·亨利。两位都是真实的历史人物，因其无比紧密的羁绊以及参与极具传奇色彩的O.K牧场枪战而被人们所熟识。汉娜最好的朋友则是一位名叫玛丽的脾气火爆的赏金猎人。

　　男孩Rio（Jake Schur）被迫穿过美国西南部，试图从他暴虐（克里斯·帕拉特）的叔叔手中，救回他的姐姐Sara（莱拉·乔治）。另一边，著名的不法之徒比利小子（戴恩·德哈恩）正遭到警长派特·加勒特（伊桑·霍克）的追捕。
　　Rio与这两人相遇，目睹了比例和警长之间关于逃跑、追捕、斗争的故事，并渐渐卷入其中。但最终，Rio要做出选择，他要成为哪种人，法外之徒还是正义代表？另外，他将如何从恶舅舅帕帕手中救下姐姐？

　　影片故事以1886年新墨西哥州为背景。詹纽瑞·琼斯饰演一位年轻寡妇，她的丈夫被一个大农场主谋害，为了报仇，她冒着所有风险踏上复仇之路。艾德·哈里斯在片中将饰演一名司法长官，帮助詹纽瑞达成复仇的心愿。

两位享乐女士被赶出城，遇到一名被射入地狱的赏金猎人。在恢复健康后，女士们决定他需要她们的帮助来追查吉拉·格莱姆斯，一个残忍、凶残的强盗，以获得一半的赏金。

　　影片讲述大卫(海姆斯沃斯饰)在海伦娜镇调查谋杀案时，却惊人发现了20年前杀害自己父亲的凶手亚伯罕(哈里森饰)。亚伯罕也将与大卫上演一出精彩对抗。

　　南北战争爆发后，尼森扮演的南方军官卡弗，带着四个跟班走上了杀人之路，皮尔斯·布鲁斯南饰演的基甸则一路逃窜。双方的战斗从内华达州的洛基雪山开始，一直杀到荒凉的新墨西哥州大沙漠。在这一过程中，卡弗的跟班相继死去，两位主角也被折腾了没有人样……
　　身穿笨重皮衣的基甸窝在雪山上面对火堆取暖，身旁是无精打采的老马和用来保命的来福枪，这哥仨一声不响地倾听着风声，直到卡弗的子弹从基甸的脑袋边上飞过去，才激起了基甸的慌忙逃窜。正当他惊慌失措地向丛林深处跑去时，随后赶到的第二颗子弹还是狠狠钻进了他的左臂。他失去了平衡，踉踉跄跄地从瀑布载了下去……当基甸从刺骨的河水中奋力爬起，用尖刀从血肉中挑出子弹时，一个原始状态下的美国社会，便在这残酷的一幕中表现出来，且向观众抛出了硕大的问号--两人的仇怨因何而起？导演向观众的暗示是：卡弗对基甸的刻骨仇恨，或许正象征了这场内战的爆发根源。

　　While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
　　Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
　　Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
　　After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
　　Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
　　Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
　　Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
　　After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.

　　19世纪的爱尔兰，英俊健硕的佃户青年约瑟·多尼利（汤姆·克鲁斯 Tom Cruise 饰）遭遇丧父之痛。为给父亲报仇，这个莽撞的青年决心杀死地主丹尼尔·克里斯迪（Robert Prosky 饰）。阴差阳错让他功败垂成，不过却因此邂逅了地主美丽的女儿夏莲（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）。与保守的父母不同，个性张扬却又娇贵单纯的夏莲一心离开故土，到外面闯荡天地。
　　偶然机缘，夏莲和约瑟结伴而逃，登上了开往美国的轮船。但是他们的旅途从一开始便充满了不幸，夏莲的家当被人或骗或抢，口袋空空。两人暂住波士顿大亨凯利管辖的破旧公寓里，娇傲的夏莲放下身段进工厂打工，而健壮的约瑟则靠打拳赚取营生。在此过程中，他们经历了人生的大起大落，彼此的心间也渐渐埋下爱情的种子……

　　约翰·福特导演早期作品，此时还在使用杰克·福特作为导演名，尽管福特曾拍摄过六十多部默片，但如今大多数都已遗失，本片是少数存留下来的几部之一，讲述了一个非常简单的西部小镇故事，故事主角比姆（Buck Jones）是一个流浪汉，某天他偶然认识了同样是流浪汉的男孩比尔（Georgie Stone），两人成为了亲密无间的好朋友。比姆一直暗恋着学校老师玛丽·布鲁斯（Helen Ferguson），然而她已经有男友哈维·卡希尔（William Buckley），再加上自己流浪汉的身份，他平常只敢远远地望着她。为了更好地照顾比尔，比姆打算寻找工作，却被雇主出了一个十分刁难的要求，比尔为了帮助比姆不幸摔伤，比姆在伤心之余又发现自己暗恋的玛丽也陷入了大麻烦。

　　美国南北战争期间，三位留守在家的南方女子（一对白人姐妹和一位女黑奴）在南北战争这死寂又危险的年代流浪奔波着。她们必须设法在两个残暴的离队士兵的铁拳下逃脱并活命，在未知的黑暗未来中杀出一条保卫家乡的血路，一场猫鼠游戏，就此展开。影片曾入选多伦多电影节展映。

　　茫茫西部，一个路经农场的过客肖恩（艾伦·拉德 Alan Ladd 饰）引起了主人斯塔雷特一家的警觉。原来当地恶徒雷克一伙为了吞并自耕农的土地，不停骚扰斯塔雷特等居民，男主人乔·斯塔雷特弄清了肖恩的身份后，将美丽的妻子玛利亚和儿子乔伊介绍给对方，并邀请肖恩留在自己的农场帮忙。肖恩入住小镇不久，就在镇上的酒馆遭到了雷克一伙的折辱，自耕农们不愿放弃辛劳工作换来的家园，集合商讨对付雷克的办法，最终却只能旁观肖恩肉搏雷克的众打手。肖恩在农场辛勤工作，并不时传授给乔伊战斗的方法，另一方面，雷克仍然不放弃赶走斯塔雷特等人的计划，肖恩决定奋力反抗……

　　在这个弹药充足，潜藏着不法威胁的小镇里，海姆斯沃斯将演绎经典西部英雄比尔·希科克与他的枪战传奇。

　　一部美国史上最成功的亡命之徒真实故事。原来是穷困无名的四个小子，一起火车抢案使这群男孩蜕变成男人。这群小子用硝化油做炸弹连抢了80家银行，足迹遍及德州和加拿大。