Frank S. Nugent

The rugged commander of a small cavalry outpost on the western frontier is faced with imminent retirement. As well as safeguarding the stagecoach routes, he must make peace with his Indian counterparts to avert a needless war and also make sure his troops will be in capable hands when he leaves.

Three stories center on the anarchic tendency of the Irish to resist any kind of externally applied order. In the first story, an old man is marched off to jail for assaulting a seller of bad whisky; in the second, the passengers of a train gleefully sabotage the official timetable; in the third ('1921') a policeman lets a revolutionary escape during 'the troubles'.

An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.

A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.

In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter. In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush. In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody. In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...

The shootist: A dying gunman returns to his friend for medical care in his last days, but becomes involved with a window and her son. El Dorado: An alcoholic sheriff and his gunfighter friend battle cattle barons and businessmen in the Old West. The searchers: When Ethan Edwards returns from the Civil War to find that Comanches have taken his niece and killed her parents, he sets out after them. The sons of Katie Elder: The four sons of Katie Elder...