comes a horseman

Director: alan j. pakula

Actor: james caan,jane fonda,jason robards,george grizzard

Data Published: Wed Oct 25 1978

Genres: Drama,Romance,Western

Key Words: strong female lead,strong female character,land grab,landowner,bar fight

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077360/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comes_a_Horseman

Description: Comes a Horseman is a movie starring James Caan, Jane Fonda, and Jason Robards. Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her...

Plot: It's the early 1940s in the American west. Ruthless rancher Jacob W. Ewing's (Jason Robards) family has lived in the region for generations, and his dream is to buy up all the land in the area to see the buffalo roam the area like they did when his grandfather was alive. With the help of New York businessman Neil Atkinson whose family also grew up in the region, J.W. has managed to buy up all the land from neighboring ranchers, who have not managed to eke out a living ranching, often with a little unwanted persuasion by J.W.'s henchmen. The one holdout is Ella Connors (Jane Fonda), whose family has also ranched the area for the last two generations with the help of the family's aged longtime hand, Dodger (Richard Farnsworth). One small player is war veteran Frank Athearn (James Caan) to who Ella sold a small plot of land to be able to pay her bills. Ella and J.W. have a history to which Ella is not too comfortable admitting. Although J.W. believes that Ella cannot survive another season financially, Ella and Frank, both of whom are committed to making a living ranching, enter into an uneasy alliance, especially after an incident involving Frank and Frank's partner, fellow veteran Billy Joe Meynart (Mark Harmon), driven by J.W. Also into the mix is Neil, who wants to so some exploratory drilling for oil in the area, he who may call in his unspoken promissory note from J.W. But J.W. seems to be the one who will go to any length required to get what he wants.[1]