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''The Bull of the West'' (a.k.a. ''Hot Lead'') is a 1972 CompilationMovie made by stitching together two episodes of ''Series/TheVirginian'': "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965). Stars Creator/CharlesBronson, Lee J. Cobb, Creator/BrianKeith, Lois Nettleton, Creator/GeorgeKennedy, James Drury and Doug [=McClure=].

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''The Bull of the West'' (a.k.a. ''Hot Lead'') is a 1972 CompilationMovie made by stitching together two episodes of ''Series/TheVirginian'': "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965). Stars Creator/CharlesBronson, Lee J. Cobb, Creator/LeeJCobb, Creator/BrianKeith, Lois Nettleton, Creator/GeorgeKennedy, James Drury and Doug [=McClure=].
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* CattleDrive: At the end of the film, Ben is preparing to send his herd on a cattle drive to market when he discovers the herd is infected with aftosa and has to be destroyed.
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* BerserkButton: Texas cowboy Johnny Wade hates barbed wire, and is likely to murder anyone he finds using it.
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* TheAlcoholic: DeterminedHomesteader Ben Justin has a history of running away and crawling into a bottle whenever things go wrong. He is trying hard to break cycle and is refusing to drink, and nearly [[ATasteOfTheLash takes a bullwhip]] to his son Will when he catches will drinking.


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* ImprovisedArmor: When the drifter who murdered the brakeman throws a knife at him, Johnny Wade twists and catches the knife in the saddle he is carrying over his shoulder.
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* ShootTheDog: Ben is forced to shoot his entire herd, including his prize Angus Aberdeen bull, after one of the cows contracts aftosa.
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* AnimalStampede: Georgia Price and Johnny Wade attempt to stop Judge Garth and his crew from fencing off the winter pasture by stampeding a herd of cattle through the fence and over the top of Garth and his men.
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* CattleBaron: Judge Garth and Georgia Price operate the two biggest ranches in the district. Judge Garth is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who sides with the smaller {{Rancher}}s surrounding him. Georgia Price, however, is ruthless and attempts to drive out the small ranchers by using the open range laws to destroy the pasture they are planning to fence off as winter pasture for their herds.
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* TheRancher: Much of the plot is driven by friction between between the various ranchers outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Judge Garth and Georgia Price are big enough to qualify as {{Cattle Baron}}s.

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* TheRancher: {{Rancher}}: Much of the plot is driven by friction between between the various ranchers outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Judge Garth and Georgia Price are big enough to qualify as {{Cattle Baron}}s.
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* TheRancher: Much of the plot is driven by friction between between the various ranchers outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Judge Garth and Georgia Price are big enough to qualify as {{Cattle Baron}}s.
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* ATasteOfTheLash: In an attempt to teach his son Will not to be weak like him, Ben Justin rips the shirt off his back and almost takes a bullwhip to him, but is stopped by the TerribleTicking inside his head.

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* HealItWthBooze: After Steve gets tangled up in barbed wire, Johnny swabs his wounds down with what he refers to as 'cleaning whisky'.

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* HealItWthBooze: HealItWithBooze: After Steve gets tangled up in barbed wire, Johnny swabs his wounds down with what he refers to as 'cleaning whisky'.


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* MistakenForCheating: Ben Justin, after some goading from a rival rancher, misinterprets his wife Mary secretly taking their son Will to the Shiloh ranch for riding lessons as her having an affair with the ranch foreman.
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* HealItwWthBooze: After Steve gets tangled up in barbed wire, Johnny swabs his wounds down wiith what he refers to as 'cleaning whisky'.
* MarketBasedTitle:: Was released on DVD under the title ''Hot Lead''.

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* HealItwWthBooze: HealItWthBooze: After Steve gets tangled up in barbed wire, Johnny swabs his wounds down wiith with what he refers to as 'cleaning whisky'.
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* MarketBasedTotal: Was released on DVD under the title ''Hot Lead''.

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* MarketBasedTotal: HealItwWthBooze: After Steve gets tangled up in barbed wire, Johnny swabs his wounds down wiith what he refers to as 'cleaning whisky'.
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* MarketBasedTotal: Was released on DVD under the title ''Hot Lead''.


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* WellDoneSonGuy: Will Justin is desperate to earn the approval of his father Ben, and secretly learns how to ride a horse to prove that he can help to run the ranch.
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* DeterminedHomesteader: Ben Justin has started a small ranch and is determined that no one is going to drive him off his land.

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* DeterminedHomesteader: Ben Justin has started a small ranch and is determined that no one is going to drive him off his land. However, his attitude quickly antagonizes the larger ranchers around him.
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* DeterminedHomesteader: Ben Justin has started a small ranch and is determined that no one is going to drive him off his land.
* TerribleTicking: Whenever Ben is under stress he hears a rattlesnake rattling inside his head.
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Whwn the American West was still a harsh and hazardous frontier, fencing the open range with barbed wire led to open warfare between contending cattlemen. DetermineHomesteader Ben Justin (Bronson) sets out to cultivate his own spread, but faces many obstacles and personal conflicts along the way. Not until plenty of hot lead and fists fly does he finally resolve his problems.

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Whwn the American West was still a harsh and hazardous frontier, fencing the open range with barbed wire led to open warfare between contending cattlemen. DetermineHomesteader DeterminedHomesteader Ben Justin (Bronson) sets out to cultivate his own spread, but faces many obstacles and personal conflicts along the way. Not until plenty of hot lead and fists fly does he finally resolve his problems.
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''The Bull of the West'' (a.k.a. ''Hot Lead'') is a 1972 CompilationMovie made by stitching together two episodes of ''Series/TheVirginian'': "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965). Stars Creator/CharlesBronson, Lee J. Cobb, Creator/BrianKeith, Lois Nettleton, Creator/GeorgeKennedy, James Drury and Doug [=McClure=].

Whwn the American West was still a harsh and hazardous frontier, fencing the open range with barbed wire led to open warfare between contending cattlemen. DetermineHomesteader Ben Justin (Bronson) sets out to cultivate his own spread, but faces many obstacles and personal conflicts along the way. Not until plenty of hot lead and fists fly does he finally resolve his problems.
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