
Watch Comes a Horseman
"She was as strong as the land for which she fought. And as vulnerable."
- PG
- 1978
- 1 hr 58 min
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6.3 (2,998)
Comes a Horseman is a 1978 drama. The movies stars Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards. Comes a Horseman is a contemporary western. The story takes place in the 1940s. It reworks the old Western theme of the small time rancher up against the powerful land baron. The basic plot concerns two ranchers who experience economic hardship when their small ranch is threatened by a local land baron. Fonda and Caan play the ranchers and Robards plays the ruthless land baron Jacob W. Ewing. Ewing’s ambition is to buy all the land in the area. He is successful in buying all the neighboring land. Fonda plays Ella Connor. She is the second generation of a ranching family.