Internationally acclaimed, but one of the biggest and most expensive box-office flops in movie history. As the rich cattle barons legally kill the poor immigrant farmers who have taken to illegal rustling to feed their starving families, the local law can only uneasily enforce what has become a mockery, or lapse into alcoholism. Moral compromise on a national scale is in question here and the US media hated this film. A portrayal of the problems faced by the first European immigrants in the Wyoming farming community of the 1890s. Epic.