Cliff Robertson directs, writes, and stars in this beautifully told story about an ex-con who returns to the professional rodeo circuit after a nine-year absence.

Ida Clayton has never met her rodeo-rider dad. In her search to find him, she encounters the Sweethearts of the Rodeo, a group of female trick riders led by fomer rodeo star Terence Parker. Despite her young age, Ida covinces Parker to let her train to become one of the risk-taking Sweethearts. If she succeeds, she just might find the family she's been looking for.

Collection of three episodes of the Young Duke series, re-edited and re-scored from previously released films produced by Paul Malvern and directed by Robert N. Bradbury. In Rodeo racketeers (23 min.), John Weston, an undercover rodeo star, ropes a gang of rodeo racketeers. In Claim jumpers (23 min.), a tough Easterner heads out West to meet his father's mining partner, Hayes. When they strike it rich, outlaws try to jump their claim by framing Hayes...

After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...