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1972

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

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A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

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1940

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1968

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