Wild Wild West (1999)

In 1869, four years after the end of the American Civil War, U.S. Army Captain James T. “Jim” West and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon hunt for ex-Confederate General “Bloodbath” McGrath, responsible for a massacre in New Liberty where West’s parents were killed. President Ulysses S. Grant informs the two about the disappearances of America’s key scientists and a treasonous plot by McGrath, and gives them the task of finding the scientists.

Aboard their train The Wanderer, West and Gordon examine the severed head of scientist Thaddeus Morton, finding a clue that leads them to Dr. Arliss Loveless, a legless ex-Confederate officer and engineering genius. Infiltrating Loveless’s plantation during a party, the duo rescues a woman named Rita Escobar, who asks for their help in rescuing her father, Guillermo Escobar, one of the kidnapped scientists. Loveless holds a demonstration of his newest weapon, a steam-powered tank, and angers McGrath by using his soldiers for target practice. Accusing McGrath of “betrayal” for surrendering at Appomattox Court House, Loveless shoots him and leaves him for dead. Gordon, West, and Rita find the dying McGrath, who reveals he was framed by Loveless for the massacre. The three catch up with Loveless on The Wanderer. After a brief fight, Rita accidentally releases sleeping gas, which knocks out West, Gordon and herself.