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This movie is based on Owen Wister's novel The Virginian. In the beginning it is the typical woman moving to a small town in the west to go teach when she was originally from a large city in the east. In this movie that woman's name is Molly Wood. When Molly first goes to this small town she is almost run over by a steer, but luckily she was saved by Virginia, the main character of this movie. No on really knows his name, which makes him even more mysterious, all they know is that he is from Virginia so that is what they call him; there is also another man whose name is Nebraska. There is also the typical "bad guy" in this case his name is Trampus and he is a cattle rustler that gets Virginia's friend Steve caught up in rustling as well.

The reason that I put bad guy in quotes was because mostly everyone in this movie uses violence at some time and it makes me laugh that they solve violence with more violence. To them, at least it seems to me, if they cannot solve something with violence then it cannot be solved at all. The end of the movie even comes with a duel; only instead of the duel coming at high noon they have it at sunset. To me this is what ruins the movie, every other western that I can remember seeing, has had the duel at high noon so that it was was fair to everyone shooting. To me having the duel at high noon is like having something that helps the country seem less barbaric. If they make everything as fair as possible, even with violence, then they are keeping the country in control. Would I recommend that others watch this movie? Yes I would; it has a great story line to it, one that includes a friend betraying another and a small love triangle; all in all a good movie.