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莎莉是一个坚强的职业女性，丧夫后与10岁儿子安仔相依为命。但她不幸患上血癌，只有6个月的寿命。安仔自幼依赖母亲，性格柔弱。为了培养安仔独立生活的能力，她把儿子关到郊外的孤儿院。安仔在孤儿院与其他儿童过着群体生活，培养出自立的性格与领导才能。

十九世纪的美国西部，一辆马车在荒漠中行驶着。车上有九个素不相识的乘客。其中有被镇上驱赶的妓女Dallas（克莱尔·特雷弗 Claire Trevor 饰），一个酒鬼医生Doc Boone （托马斯·米切尔 Thomas Mitchell饰），寻找丈夫的孕妇Lucy Mallory，威士忌商人Samuel Peacock，逃狱为父报仇的Ringo Kid（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）。一路上危险重重，马车要躲避印第安人的追杀，Dallas要忍受他人的轻视和冷落，除了对她有好感的Ringo。而Ringo则要处理他和警察的关系。孕妇Lucy在半途就要分娩了，醉醺醺的医生能否化险为夷？一段充满了艰险的旅程过后，最后Ringo和Dallas这两个社会边缘人能否走到一起？本片获1940年奥斯卡五项提名，赢得了最佳男配角和最佳配乐两个大奖。

In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.

一部描写盗匪的影片。汉弗莱博加特饰演一名刚服刑完满的犯人,遇上昔日拍挡, 此人由于身染重病,想在临终前联同他再做一次大买卖…