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The Missouri Breaks

1976 · 126 min

Drama, Western

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.

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Appeals to viewers drawn to revisionist westerns with morally compromised figures, eccentric menace, and an unsettling collision between frontier justice and personal revenge.

Tone
tense, bleak, darkly comic
Payoff
unease, catharsis
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
lawlessness, vengeance, power, justice, violence
Setting
nineteenth-century frontier, ranches and open range

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