A Million Ways to Die in the West
Albert Stark is a soft man in hard times who is trying to figure out how to escape this godforsaken frontier that seems to be trying to kill him-and everyone else in it-at every turn. A sheep farmer whose fickle girlfriend, Louise , leaves him when he backs out of a gunfight, Albert feels like a chump. Adding to Albert's distress and feelings of inadequacy, Louise takes up with the town's most successful businessman, arrogant moustachery owner Foy. And what Albert can't dream of offering in terms of financial stability and facial hirsuteness, Foy has in spades. But when a mysterious and beautiful gunslinger named Anna rides into town, she helps Albert begin to find his courage and they start to fall in unexpected love. Nothing comes easy in the bitterly unforgiving Old West, and further trouble ensues when Anna's husband, Clinch Leatherwood -a notorious outlaw whose name strikes fear into the hearts of the citizenry-arrives seeking revenge on the man whom he thinks has made a dishonest woman of Anna. Reluctantly, Albert must now put his newfound courage to the test in a one-man-left-standing gunfight that will earn him Anna's hand and long-denied respect in the Wild West or another unmarked grave forgotten in the annals of history.
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