***SPOILERS*** It's when Montana cattle baron Jack Mercy kicked off or better yet passed away that he pulled off his last joke on those who worked on his ranch by designating his tomboy daughter Willa Mercy, Ashley Williams, to take over operations of the massive 25,000 acer Mercy Ranch. To make matters even worse for Willa and the ranch-hands Jack, in his will, had both his other two daughters, who never saw or heard of him until after his death, Tess & Lily, Charlotte Ross & Laura Mennell,forced to stay at the ranch for a full years time in order to get a piece of it, or 33.3%, which was worth some $8,000,000.00 for each of them!
All this didn't go too well with the ranch-hands that included Ham, James Baker, together with Pickels, Donovan Workun, and Jim, Tom Carey, who found it very difficult taking orders from a woman! It wasn't long after that a number of cattle mutilations and what seemed like animal sacrifices and poisonings began to pop up at the ranch. Someone was trying to get Willa and her sisters to check out and then take over the ranch before the year was over. But who?
As things soon turned out Lily's estranged and crazy husband Jesse, Scott Heindi,who beat her up regularly back in Virginia was out on bail and looking to make his wife's life miserable here in Montana like he did back home! A very jealous and dangerous man Jesse gunned down Lily's Indian lover Adam Wolfchild, Nathanlel Arcand, when he spotted two together kissing leaving Wolfchild for dead and taking a terrified Lily hostage. It's now up to the tall blond and handsome county sheriff Nate, Aaron Pearl, who's in fact having an affair with Tess to get the guy off the streets or ranch before he does any more damage!
**SPOILERS*** It's after Jesse is dispatched by the sharp-shooting Willa that you realize that he in fact isn't the person who's been committing all these crimes at the ranch that included the murder and mutilation as well as scalping of poor Pickels. It was Pickel's who had the misfortune of running into the unseen killer when he was coming back to the Mercy Ranch with the daily groceries. In fact the out of control and mentally deranged Jesse was both too crazy & stupid to pull all the crimes off successfully! As it turned out later it was someone else and he was greatly ticked off at the late Jack Mercy for leaving his entire spread, the Mercy Ranch, to his three daughters two of whom he never met in his entire life!
Taking Willa hostage the deranged killer gives her the usual speech about how he deserves everything that she and Tess & Lily got and what a raw deal he got out of all this in the late Jack Mercy treating him like dirt! In fact the psycho tells Willa that Jack loved his animals even more then himself! His own flesh & blood!
To finally put an end to the movie, that seemed to go on forever,and the crazed killer Willa's boyfriend the tall dark, maybe a little on the light side, and handsome Gary Cooper looking Ben McKintock, John Corbett, comes to her rescue just in the nick of time! Shocked at the sight of the macho as well as strong and silent type Ben Willa's kidnapper, a crack shot with a rifle, lost his composer and missed Ben, who was no more the 15 feet away from him, by a country mile. Ben now getting a clear shot at the now scared in his underwear killer had no trouble ending his killing spree, of both humans and animals, by both finishing him off as well as putting an end to the movie!
All this didn't go too well with the ranch-hands that included Ham, James Baker, together with Pickels, Donovan Workun, and Jim, Tom Carey, who found it very difficult taking orders from a woman! It wasn't long after that a number of cattle mutilations and what seemed like animal sacrifices and poisonings began to pop up at the ranch. Someone was trying to get Willa and her sisters to check out and then take over the ranch before the year was over. But who?
As things soon turned out Lily's estranged and crazy husband Jesse, Scott Heindi,who beat her up regularly back in Virginia was out on bail and looking to make his wife's life miserable here in Montana like he did back home! A very jealous and dangerous man Jesse gunned down Lily's Indian lover Adam Wolfchild, Nathanlel Arcand, when he spotted two together kissing leaving Wolfchild for dead and taking a terrified Lily hostage. It's now up to the tall blond and handsome county sheriff Nate, Aaron Pearl, who's in fact having an affair with Tess to get the guy off the streets or ranch before he does any more damage!
**SPOILERS*** It's after Jesse is dispatched by the sharp-shooting Willa that you realize that he in fact isn't the person who's been committing all these crimes at the ranch that included the murder and mutilation as well as scalping of poor Pickels. It was Pickel's who had the misfortune of running into the unseen killer when he was coming back to the Mercy Ranch with the daily groceries. In fact the out of control and mentally deranged Jesse was both too crazy & stupid to pull all the crimes off successfully! As it turned out later it was someone else and he was greatly ticked off at the late Jack Mercy for leaving his entire spread, the Mercy Ranch, to his three daughters two of whom he never met in his entire life!
Taking Willa hostage the deranged killer gives her the usual speech about how he deserves everything that she and Tess & Lily got and what a raw deal he got out of all this in the late Jack Mercy treating him like dirt! In fact the psycho tells Willa that Jack loved his animals even more then himself! His own flesh & blood!
To finally put an end to the movie, that seemed to go on forever,and the crazed killer Willa's boyfriend the tall dark, maybe a little on the light side, and handsome Gary Cooper looking Ben McKintock, John Corbett, comes to her rescue just in the nick of time! Shocked at the sight of the macho as well as strong and silent type Ben Willa's kidnapper, a crack shot with a rifle, lost his composer and missed Ben, who was no more the 15 feet away from him, by a country mile. Ben now getting a clear shot at the now scared in his underwear killer had no trouble ending his killing spree, of both humans and animals, by both finishing him off as well as putting an end to the movie!