Comes A Horseman

Determined single woman Ella Connors (Jane Fonda) struggles to maintain her ranch despite constant attempts by Jacob “J.W.” Ewing (Jason Robards), the aging owner of the neighboring ranch, to coerce her into selling. When oil companies begin pressuring both ranchers to allow drilling, Ella's position becomes even more perilous. Though Ella thinks she's scrappy enough to fight them on her own, her chances get better with the arrival of hunky war veteran Frank “Buck” Athearn (James Caan).

Critic Reviews:

• " Comes a Horseman is one of the most exciting and elliptical love stories that we have been given to think about in a very long time. [Full Review in Spanish] " – Fernando Trueba

• " Pakula approaches the open spaces of the frontier to escape from urban claustrophobia and instead finds reflections of it " – Fernando F. Croce

• " A good-enough Western that I can only really recommend to genre fans, or people who have some particularly strong affection for one or another of the actors. " – Tim Brayton