Stars:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Cate Blanchett,
Evan Rachel Wood,
Val Kilmer,
Heath Ledger,
Orlando Bloom,
Naomi Watts,
Geoffrey Rush,
Robert Duvall,
Thomas Haden Church,
Greta Scacchi
Director:
Walter Hill
Summary: A collection of the westerns THE MISSING, NED KELLY, and BROKEN TRAIL.
A collection of the westerns THE MISSING, NED KELLY, and BROKEN TRAIL.
THE MISSING centres on life in 19th Century New Mexico. Samuel Jones walked out on his family many years before when his daughter was just a child. He decides to return home and make up with his now grown-up daughter Maggie. What he finds on his return is that Maggie's eldest daughter Lily has been kidnapped by a group of outlaws. Maggie must now enlist the help of her estranged father in a rescue attempt. Lily's existence is now threatened by a life of enslaved prostitution in Mexico City.
NED KELLY is a film about Australias' most notorious outlaw, Ned Kelly. It is 1871 and Ned, along with his brother Dan and two other men, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, form a gang, the Kelly Gang, and set out to rob banks using primitive armour as protection. Kelly soons finds himself being seen as a Robin Hood figure by the local population and a price on his head and the police chasing him. However, whilst hiding out in a pub, the gang are betrayed by a local teacher and the scene is set for a dramatic showdown with dozens of armed police who are taking no chances.
In BROKEN TRAIL, an uncle-and-nephew team of cowboys are charged with running a herd of horses through the Wild West. The pair encounter a group of Chinese girls who are being sold into prostitution, and after saving them from that bitter fate, they find themselves charged with their care.