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Sam Elliott, Linda Fiorentino, and Craig Sheffer in The Desperate Trail (1994)

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The Desperate Trail

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  • After a failed stagecoach robbery, Sarah, a convicted killer, frees herself and steals the money from the strongbox, but Jack robs her. The marshal sets after both of them so they become partners.
  • After years of suffering under her beating husband, Sarah decides to no longer take additional humiliation or battery, and kills him. For that, Marshal Speakes, her father-in-law, sentences her to the gallows. During a failed hold-up on the stagecoach, she escapes, but Jack Cooper manages to snatch away the transported twenty-five hundred dollars from her, which she would have needed to start a new life. So she follows him to get it back. Soon they have to team up against the Marshal, who wants her dead so badly, he doesn't mind breaking the law.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
  • A stagecoach is transporting the snobbish fop Jack Cooper;Mamie Hollister and her abusive husband Zeb Hollister; Marshall Bill Speakes and his prisoner Sarah O'Rourke who will be hanged. Out of the blue, three robbers attack the stagecoach and kill the driver and the guard. But Speakes assumes the control of the stagecoach and shoots the bandits, killing also one robber that climbs on the back. But the handcuffed Sarah grabs his gun and surprises and dominates Speakes. She robs the stagecoach's strongbox but is surprised by Jack who robs her and flees with the money. Later, Jack is surprised by Sarah in his hotel room, but Speakes and Hollister surprise them again and they flee together. Jack learns that Speakes is the father-in-law of Sarah and she killed his son that was an abusive husband. Now, Marshal forgets the law and organizes a posse to hunt down Sarah.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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