The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Author:Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Death is always the issue - in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Hurrying to their final appointments are Oregon trail-travellers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach pa... more »ssengers, a high-plains-drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that respects, if not their dignity, their service to fiction.« less