Red is a poker-faced professional cattle thief with a soft heart for an unlucky cowboy and a prostitute.

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http://www.magicalrealism.us/2014/07/10/leaving-stephenville/ Casting will be the key to the success. The best way to bring back westerns is to use familiar faces. Either Clint Eastwood or Robert Duvall should play Red. Screenplay By Lee A. Miller (112 pages) Red is a veteran cowboy in his late sixties who still spends his time rustling cattle. When he meets Lane, a loser with no talent for stealing cattle, he sees him as a son and tries to help him. He takes care of him and teaches him all the tricks of the trade. He also helps him to make a relationship with Louisiana, a young girl who works at the saloon. Lane doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that Louisiana is also a prostitute, but soon something happens that turns their lives upside down. THE ENTIRE PLOT Red, a cowboy in his late 60s follows a trail of dead bodies and finds a young man, Lane. He is sitting forlornly out on the prairie, no boots, no horse and half his clothes. It appears, Lane has just sat down to die. Red offers to give him a horse and a canteen of water. Red learns that Lane was trying to steal cattle to raise enough money for his own ranch. He offers to ride with him to Fort Worth and teach him how to rustle cattle and make some money. Skeptical at first, Lane agrees. One year later, Lane, having stolen enough cattle to buy his ranch, has become Red’s protégé. Lane has a new friend named Jimmy, who does security work for a ranch, and is attracted to Louisiana, a saloon owner’s girl. Red encounters Louisiana at night, learning she moonlights as a prostitute. Although Louisiana believes Red might want to sleep with her, Red actually wants to set her up with Lane. And it works. Lane and Louisiana begin talking about leaving the town. Red is woken up with a frantic late-night knock on the door. Lane has summoned him to Louisiana’s hotel room. He arrives to find Lane and Louisiana holding a hostage. He turns out to be the county judge and a customer refusing to pay Louisiana for the sex. The situation is dangerous, because Louisiana has tied the judge up and Lane has beat him badly. They do not have a good plan about how to resolve matters, and they need Red. Red manages to smooth the situation over. They take the unconscious judge over to the base of a stairwell. The pour whisky all over him hoping people will think he fell down the stairs. They all hope the judge doesn’t remember what happened. Red then advises Lane and Louisiana to leave town, get married and head to faraway Texas for their honeymoon. After the two leave, Red is confronted by Jimmy, who demands a large amount of money. He knows something about Red and threatens to tell Lane if necessary—that Red is the one who killed Lane’s father in a gunfight. Jimmy describes his knowledge of Red’s past in Dodge Kansas. He mentions many acquaintances in common. Red is a retired gunman. However, Red is a student of human nature and plays the cards of life very, very close to his vest. He is a man who has been around, who knows about life, cattle and stealing them. He finds himself attached to two people he could easily have avoided. He thinks before he acts. Red acquiesces and pays the money, but later sneaks into Jimmy’s camp and shoots him. He then returns to the Fort Worth. The film ends with Red getting a telegram from Texas.

LEAVING STEPHENVILLE

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