El jinete electrico

After retiring from the rodeo where he was five-time all-around world rodeo champion, Sonny Steele is signed by multinational conglomerate Ampco to be the spokesman for their breakfast cereal, Ranch Breakfast. This corporate job, where he is paraded around on horses in electrically-lit cowboy get-ups and the publicity department makes him grow a mustache to look more like a cowboy, eventually sucks his soul away, and he takes up the bottle and often turns up drunk at events, so the publicity department tries to hide him from the media. At a corporate-wide Ampco event in Las Vegas, television reporter Hallie Martin senses that there is a story in Sonny being hidden by his own publicity machine. That event also marks the last straw for Sonny with Ampco as he is to appear with Ampco's acquisition, a $12-million race-horse named Rising Star. Although Sonny is willing to be denigrated by Ampco, he refuses to let them do the same to Rising Star, whom they drug to sedate at such public events and to make him look cosmetically more pleasing, all at his expense. Sonny decides to steal Rising Star and actually ride off into the sunset. Hot on their tail are the Ampco executives--who want to keep the story as quiet as possible to not tarnish their brand, the police, and Hallie. Hallie does all she can to get the story straight from Sonny's mouth, so much better if hers are the only cameras rolling at the time. But as she catches up with him and by circumstance spends extended alone time with him and Rising Star, her priorities of getting the story at any cost might change to helping Sonny elude capture and achieve his end goal with Rising Star. But that goal could be jeopardized by Hallie's earlier priorities, which are still those of her network.