Appaloosa (2008)


Viggo Mortensen         Everett Hitch
Renee Zellweger         Allison French
Jeremy Irons            Randall Bragg
Timothy Spall           Phil Olson
Ed Harris               Virgil Cole
Robert Knott            Vince
Timothy V. Murphy       Vince
Daniel T. Parker        Mueller
Lance Henriksen         Ring Shelton
Tom Bower               Abner Raines
Ariadna Gil             Katie
Luce Rains              Dean
Girard Swan             Bragg's Man
Boyd Kestner            Bronc
Erik J. Bockameyer      Fat Wallis
James Gammon            Earl May
Robert Jauregui         Marshall Jack Bell

Directed by:            Ed Harris
Produced by:            Ginger Sledge, Michael London, Cotty Chubb


When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless 
town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses, 
and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg they find an 
unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch 
to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.

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1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns 
as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher 
with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to 
arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in 
town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there 
may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain 
and green-eyed jealousy?

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The tough friends and partners Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in the town of Appaloosa and they are 
hired as marshal and deputy by the local politicians with absolute power to rule the city. In their first 
assignment, they face the gang of the powerful rancher Randall Bragg, who had killed Marshall Jack Bell and 
his two deputies, and they kill three gunmen. When the refined piano player Allison French arrives in Appaloosa, 
she stays close to the needy Virgil and they decide to live together. Meanwhile one employee of Bragg offers 
to testify against his boss and Virgil and Everett bring him to court, where he is sentenced to death by 
hanging. While transporting Bragg in the train to be executed, two gunmen abduct Allie to force Virgil to 
release the criminal. Bragg escapes with his men and Allie through the desert, with Virgil and Everett on their tail.