Mryl Redding is a proud man. Proud to raise family proud to run his ranch never too proud to help a friend. When wealthy and influential landowner Henry Ballard sets up a toll gate and takes two of Redding's horses as a deposit Redding is angry. But when Ballard's henchmen abuse them almost to death Redding is enraged. He demands justice and so begins a feud between two proud men one in search of his rights and one who believes those rights are his to buy. sell or ignore as he sees fit. A personal feud becomes a war... a war becomes a manhunt ... and a manhunt becomes a trial that will lead to a bloody kind of justice. At a time in the West when statehood is still a dream and justice comes with aprice one man must sacrifice everything he loves for everything he believes in.
]]>Amazon.comThe Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on HBO but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers not to a piece of livestock but a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that?? once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something?? will hang on to the point of death.That would be Myrl Redding (John Cusack)?? a horse-breeder of limited means but a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones)?? the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over?? and his men beat Redding's horse trainer and friend?? an Indian (Rodney?A. Gran