Comes a Horseman (1978)

Jane Fonda is a single woman doing all she can to keep her family’s ranch despite the land hungry machinations of Jason Robards. She’s helped on her fool’s errand by Richard Farnsworth and James Caan. Fonda looks appropriately unglamorous and gritty as a woman more or less on her own on the frontier, but the whole affair is a bit dull and uninvolving. The film is supposedly set toward the end of World War II, but other than the vehicles and a mention of post-war declining beef prices, there is nothing that makes this distinctly of that era over any other in the history of the American West.  

Oscar Nomination: Best Actor in a Supporting Role