The Far Country

(1954)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 175 votes

Genres: Western

Year: 1954

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Anthony Mann

Cast: Джеймс Стюарт, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Jay C. Flippen, Гарри Морган, Steve Brodie, Connie Gilchrist, Robert J. Wilke

Plot

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.

In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef, and woe betide anyone standing in his way. He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness, until it finally strikes home.