The Black Swan

Jim Douglas relentlessly pursues the four men who murdered his wife. When he finally finds them, they are in jail and bound for the gallows the next day. As they await their execution, someone helps the prisoners escape. Douglas won’t rest until he hunts them down.

A powerful indictment of the rigid class barriers emerging in the prosperous postwar United States of the 1920s. Stella marries a banker’s son “above her station,” but is unable to adapt her dress and behavior to the bourgeois standards of her new husband. When her daughter gets engaged to a boy from a “good family,” Stella sees the picture clearly: only by straying from this lifestyle can she ensure her daughter’s happiness.

Jimmy Ringo, a reformed gunfighter, is on his way to a sleepy town in hopes of reuniting with his estranged sweetheart and the young son he has never seen. On arrival, a chance encounter with old friends gives the repentant Jimmy some respite. But his reputation haunts him yet again—this time in the form of three vengeful cowboys and a local gunslinger hoping to use Jimmy to make a name for himself.