When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace. There he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.

In the dusty town of Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for a brutal murder. Joe's brother Nathan bottles up the town so Chance can't get his prisoner to justice.

Darby hires the drunken, one-eyed, overweight marshal Rooster Cogburn, played by Wayne, to find and kill the man who murdered her father and stole all the family's money. She accompanies him on his journey to find the killer, as does Campbell, a Texas Ranger who wants a reward.

Our heroes come to the aid of a modern-day Robin Hood, Will Parker, who's taking refuge in the mountains of Wyoming. Hotheaded Will is thrown in jail for violating the local game laws. Busting out, Parker scurries to the hills, hotly pursued by the Mesquiteers and the law. Running against time, the threesome try to capture the corrupt politician Balsinger who's responsible for the recession and save Will from the gun-happy policemen and townspeople....

Captain Rockwell Torrey pursues nurse Maggie Haynes and attempts to reunite with his estranged son in the aftermath of the bombing at Pearl Harbor.

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is the commander of a cavalry outpost on the Rio Grande. When Yorke's estranged wife arrives to pull their teenage son out of the army, they decide to give their marriage another try. Meanwhile, a risky plan to outwit a tribe of warring Apaches puts Yorke in danger of being court-martialed.

With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.

A pharmacist moves to California during the Gold Rush and serves the community as a doctor. His life is complicated by unscrupulous political bosses and by the dance hall girl whom he loves.