Radio warns of a mental patient escaped from a hospital into a severe New Mexico blizzard. At the rail-stop near the sanitarium, a huge, old cowboy boards the train & calms a rattled family with tall tales of the West, as the besieged train grinds to a halt. Totally entranced is the family's young boy, dressed as a gunslinger. Is the patient the old cowpoke?

美国金球奖(1971；第28届) 提名-最佳女新人 Lola Falana；
L·B·琼斯是一个靠承办葬礼而富裕的黑人，他到奥玛的律师事务所寻求法律帮助，他想和自己年轻的妻子艾玛离婚，因为艾玛和一名白人警官威利有染，但他不想把这件事情闹大。奥玛担心这个案件会加剧当地的种族矛盾，他私下去找威利，想把这件事情在庭外和解，但威利和他的兄弟采取了暴力的形式来解决这件事情……

罗克·赫德森是个性温厚的德州牧场主人，他从东部娶了漂亮的伊丽莎白·泰勒回来。詹姆斯·迪恩是个个性倔强的长工，却渐渐暗恋上这个女主人。后来他获赠一块荒地自行开垦，不料因挖出石油而成为富甲一方的石油大亨。直至下一代成长起来，他跟罗克的家族仍然纠缠不清，因为他无法用金钱弥补内心的空虚。

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.