Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Buckman withhold pay to make restitution for saloon 's damages, Fact2: Ross agrees Desperate for money now to holdup, Fact3: Sada tells husband to keep money, Fact4: card player shoots him in leg, Fact5: John and Paul hear about father 's fate from Tucson sheriff
Output (English): An aging cowboy, Ross Bodine, and a younger one, Frank Post, work on cattleman Walt Buckmans ranch in Montana. A neighboring sheepman, Hansen, is in a longrunning feud with Buckman. Ross has a dream of riding off to Mexico to retire from the hard work of the range, but he doesnt have much money saved up. Frank suggests they rob a bank and head for Mexico together. While Ross thinks this over, he and Frank brawl with Hansens men at a saloon. Buckman intends to withhold their pay to make restitution for the saloons damages. Desperate for money now, Ross agrees to the holdup. He takes banker Billings to town at gunpoint while Frank holds the bankers wife, Sada, hostage at home. Ross rides back with 36,000. Before making a getaway, he gives Billings 3,000 so that Buckmans other cowboys wont lose any pay they have coming. Sada tells her husband to keep the money and not inform the sheriff. A posse is formed that includes Buckmans two sons, hottempered John and easygoing Paul, told by their father that no cowhand of his is going to get away with breaking the law. Ross and Frank get as far as Arizona and go into town for supplies. Ross hires a prostitute while Frank plays poker. A card player dislikes Franks winning of a huge pot and shoots him in the leg. Ross comes to his partners aid and a shootout commences, leaving several people dead. Back home, Buckman and Hansen have a runin that results in both their deaths. John and Paul hear about their fathers fate from a Tucson sheriff. Paul wants to turn back but John becomes obsessed with fulfilling the old mans last request, catching the bank robbers. Frank refuses to see a doctor, and his leg injury grows much worse. Ross has to pull him behind a horse on a stretcher. Frank dies from the wound just before John and Paul turn up on the trail, where Ross is gunned down. Disgusted with the entire affair and sorry he had to shoot Ross, Paul rides off, leaving John alone struggling to return Ross dead body to the scene of his crime. The movie ends with a flashback of Ross riding a bucking bronc while Frank cheers him on.