In a world where civilization has regressed thanks to an energy drink that can cause people to behave like zombies, three men are given the mission to steal a truck full of the stuff. But the task is not gonna be easy.
“Burlesqueing western conventions, this film has silent movie titles and music and a posse of shetland ponies. A gumnut satire of Westerns with a fine eye for the absurd.” (The Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film)
The towns feared righteous gunslinger gets a son but cowardly one, when he grew up was cast away by for being a coward, till he met a man that changed his life.
A female sheriff is framed for cattle rustling by the real rustlers. The head of the gang brands her with his initials. After she recovers, she sets out to catch the gang and pay back the man who branded her.
An infamous band of thieves continues to succeed in robbing private caravans and government carriages as they pass through the countryside, puzzling the authorities. Soon, though, a mysterious masked man begins to upstage the gang of thieves by robbing the cargoes before the thieves can, and then returning the stolen money after the robbers find the travelers empty-handed. Soon, both the government and the band of highwaymen are trying to discover the identity of the "Jinete Fantasma.
In the western town of Adamstown, things can get pretty rough at times, and at times it seems like everyone is against everyone else: people, animals, old, young, locals, and supposed strangers.
A man named Chandler, claiming to be a novelist in search of local color, arrives at a town near the Mexican border, where he makes advances toward Jo, a girl living a solitary life on a desert ranch. Manning, a cowboy, suspects Chandler's motives, and his suspicions are strengthened when Chandler is caught cheating at cards. Following a gang of Mexicans to their mountain retreat, Manning learns that Chandler and the Mexicans are smuggling opium across the border. Two gang members are killed in the ensuing fight, but Chandler, wounded by Manning after a chase on the cliffs, escapes to Jo's home, where he denounces Manning as a smuggler. Manning arrives and dispels Jo's misgivings about him by revealing that he is a Texas Ranger, sworn to secrecy.
The animated adventures of "Tonka Tom" a gay plastic cowboy. Hitch-hiking, two-stepping at the local gay bar, and enjoying a campfire with a friend and his trusty dog.
A musical stop-motion short in which a devastating drought descends upon a small town in the old west. The lone cowboy resident and a motley crew of animals must rely on the sacrifice of a sentient cactus to survive... if he's willing.
It is 1886 in South Dakota, and Harrius, a 70-year old wounded wanderer, seeks redemption. Through her encounters with a parched landscape and beings both physical and metaphysical (including a virtual labyrinth of mounds, geisha dancers and her pious lace-maker double, Alma), Proud Flesh is no mere re-visioning of the American Western. It is a meditation on the iconography and gestures contained within the genre itself.