Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.
故事发生在美国内战结束后,当时随着铁路的兴建。大量移民涌向西部淘金,由于修筑铁路,令沿线大批农民失去家园。杰西与法兰克·吉姆斯带领一伙破产农民专门抢劫火车,以表达他们对修筑铁路的不满,并与政府抗争。但是起初单纯的动机渐渐被贪婪及暴力所取代。而杰西亦被手下的叛徒所杀……
Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks as a planner He plots a holdup in meticulous detail; but things go wrong, a cop and two robbers are killed, and Purvis hides out with the money while Lieut. Cordell, friend of the dead cop, investigates. Purvis's new getaway plan shows promise, but may have one tiny flaw.
故事述说在美国南方,庄稼汉特克·萨姆认为庄稼汉理所当然的在种地,在自己的地里生活,更自由,更像男子汉。所以他租了块闲置三年的农地,不料一场暴雨袭击了他的农地,全部收获毁于一旦。但萨姆还是投入新的劳动,他是永远不会离开土地的。在导演处理上,他用秋、冬、春、夏、秋五个段落来叙述故事,既简明又富于表现力。这部影片的电影配乐也是非常出色的,取得很好的剧情效果,整个影片音乐用得不多,却恰到好处。
An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion of foul play.
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film ...