The Big Land

Below-average western starring Ladd as an angry cattle driver who is outraged at villain Caruso's offered price per head. Caruso happens to be the only buyer in the territory who has access to the railroad, and therefore he can undercut the price of cattle to $1.50 instead of the $10 a head the ranchers were expecting. Ladd meets up with a washed-up, alcoholic architect, O'Brien, after saving him from being lynched. They decide, with the help of Ladd's railroad developer friend Castle, to build their own town where the cattlemen can come to sell their cattle at reasonable prices and ship them by train. Excited by the challenge, O'Brien sobers up and draws up the pl...