The Big Country.

James McKay (Gregory Peck) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry Terrill. Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), the patriarch of a poorer, less refined ranching clan, over water rights in the arid grazing lands of the high plains. Patricia's friend, schoolteacher Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons) owns the "Big Muddy", a large ranch itself, with a source of water that is vital to both sides in times of drought. Julie