Western 4-Pack: Aces 'N Eights / Avenging Angel / The Pledge / Prairie Fever (4-DVD)

ACES 'N EIGHTS: Here's a gunslinger's tale with a different approach. With the railroad making its way across the States, some landowners don't want to sell out in the name of "progress" and are willing to back up their staunch opposition with bullets and, in the case of one family, a reclusive sharpshooter. Ernest Borgnine and Casper Van Dien star in this moody western about the clash between modernity and traditional values.

AVENGING ANGEL: A man of the cloth takes up arms to avenge the violent murder of his wife and child in this made-for-television Western starring Kevin Sorbo, Wings Hauser, and Cynthia Watros. Preacher (Sorbo) has just watched helplessly as his wife and child are brutally gunned down by ruthless land baron Colonel Cusack (Hauser) and his murderous henchmen. Later, when the holy-man-turned-bounty-hunter runs into head thug Quinn (Nick Chinlund), he rents a room from a lonely single mother (Watros) and methodically sets about plotting his revenge.

THE PLEDGE: In the Old West, Sheriff Matt Austin discovers the murder of his wife and son by a vicious psychopath was in fact a calculated move on the part of an evil land baron who wanted to take the Austin family's land. Former heartthrobs Luke Perry (BEVERLY HILLS 90210, JEREMIAH) and C. Thomas Howell (THE OUTSIDERS, SOUL MAN) go head-to-head in this thrilling Western.

PRAIRIE FEVER: Sheriff Preston Biggs (Kevin Sorbo, HERCULES) has been spending every waking moment drowning his sorrows in whiskey after he accidentally shot his wife in a hostage situation two years ago. His life once again sees a woman's touch--fourfold--when he is tasked with transporting three mail order brides diagnosed with "prairie fever" (mental instability) to Carson City's train station. Overhearing the cries of some of the brides, no-nonsense con-woman Olivia crashes in on the traveling party, only to develop a maternal attachment to Abigail, the youngest of the girls, and a surprising bond with Biggs. Olivia has baggage of her own, though, and it isn't long before her dangerous ex, James Monte (Lance Henriksen, ALIENS), is on their tail. Dominique Swain (FACE/OFF) also stars in this unusually sensitive yet action-packed Western.