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Drama, circus film, drama film
Matt Masters (John Wayne), a Wild West circus star in the mold of Buffalo Bill Cody, bought a bankrupt circus in 1885 and successfully rebuilt it into a combination three ring and Wild West extravaganza. He has successfully toured the Unit…
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Western, Western film
Jefferson Cody, whose wife was captured by Comanches, frees another man's wife and is taking her home. Three outlaws, led by the charming but malevolent Ben Lane, reveal that the woman's husband has offered a $5,000 reward, making the woma…
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Western
Gambler Brady Hawkes (Kenny Rogers) receives a letter from Jeremiah (Ronnie Scribner), the young son he never knew, who asks Hawkes to help him and his mother Eliza (Christine Belford); the two are living in Yuma with Jeremiah's stepfather…
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Classical Western, Drama, Melodrama, Western film, drama film
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California. Asa Barrows has a stake in the Central Pacific Railroad and hopes to profit f…
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Western, drama film
Forced to give up his land and home, cantankerous Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to go quietly to the dismal trailer park that's all he can now afford. Instead, Red departs with his grandson Gally (son of his long-estranged son Jimmy)…
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Fantasy, Horror, Western, Western film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film
A group of disfigured people gather near a railroad in a desert where they are killed by a mysterious gunslinger named Aman (Wesley Snipes), who rips out the head and spine from one of the dead bodies. Nearby in the same desert, a group of…
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Western, Western film
When hired gun John Gant arrives in Lordsburg, the locals are terrified. The sheriff would like to arrest Gant, but the gunman always kills legally, in "self-defense." While the town speculates on Gant's target, Luke Canfield, a young doct…
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Late Western, Western film, drama film
The squabbling Bridges family spend a harsh winter on their remote ranch in Northern California during the early 1900s. Crude, quarrelsome Curt Bridges bullies his modest, unassuming older brother Arthur, while youngest brother Harold endu…
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Western, Western film
Ben Mockridge is a young man proud of his $4 handgun - which he flourishes for a friend he recently wagon-raced against -, and enamored of "cowboyin. He asks Frank Culpepper if he can join his cattle drive to Fort Lewis, Colorado. Culpeppe…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
Drifter William Bonney, known as "Billy The Kid", befriends a cattle boss named John Tunstall, who is known as "The Englishman". Tunstall is murdered by corrupt rival cattlemen led by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War. Bonney pla…
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Western, Western film, romance film
Three American adventurers are stranded in a Mexican fishing village when their ship develops engine trouble. As they discuss their options in a local saloon, Leah Fuller, whose husband John is trapped in a distant gold mine, enters. She o…
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Classical Western, Komödie, Western film, comedy film
Calamity Jane is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson. Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traders illegally selling guns to a…
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Western, Western film
A prologue explains the role of the bounty hunter. A wanted criminal named Burch tries to ambush bounty hunter Jim Kipp, but Kipp gets the better of him. Kipp takes Burch's corpse into town to collect the reward.
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1878, an old gunslinger Ben Wyatt is released from prison after five years. He meets Lee Sutton, who is on the run for killing a man in a gunfight. Wyatt finds that his close friends the Domingos have been killed.
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Western, Western film
On the way to meet his former boss—railroad tycoon Ben Kimball—Grant McLaine rescues a young boy, Joey Adams, from villain Concho. Ben informs Grant that his payroll has been robbed three times already by a gang led by Whitey Harbin and th…
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Komödie, Western film, comedy film
A modern-day Ned Kelly robs banks in Australia and gives all the money to the poor people. Ned is forced to go to Hollywood to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks there for…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film
A "skybike", a one-man, open-cockpit flying machine, attacks Dogen. Dogen shoots it down and finds one of Syn's crystals on the pilot's body. Carved into the crystal is a symbol of a dead tree.
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Romance Film, Western, drama film, romance film
Daniel Dillon is an Irish immigrant who settles in the high mountains of California during the Gold Rush of 1849. It is now 1867, and Dillon has a vault filled with gold and a town of his own, named Kingdom Come. Dillon owns nearly every b…
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The film, in two parts, begins in 1876 when the Terry-Gibbon column relieves the remnants of the 7th Cavalry that had survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. They discover Custer's Squadron has been annihilated, and the film 'flashes ba…
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drama film
The film opens in 1932 during an historical event, known as the Bonus March. World War I veterans are protesting and rallying in Washington, D.C., demanding immediate cash redemption of bonus certificates that were due to be paid in 1945. …
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Western, drama film
Valentine Casey is the marshal of the New Mexico town of Los Tragos. On Christmas Eve, 1907, Los Tragos is overrun by a violent gang. Casey retreats to the Arizona desert and then to the town of Dunfries where he becomes involved with a bl…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Frontiersman Elias "Big Eli" Wakefield decides to leave 1820s Kentucky to move to Texas with his son "Little Eli". They find a town where they have the same last name as a family suspected of murder. After a struggle, Big Eli is arrested a…
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Christmas film, Italo-Western, Silly Movie, Spaghetti Western, Splatstick, comedy film
Travis, a gunslinger receives a letter from his mother Maw, asking him to bring his brother Moses and his family to a Christmas reunion and to give them an unknown treasure she claims to have inherited from his father. Moses is a bounty hu…
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Drama, drama film
Between drought and a cattle plague, Missie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell) takes up a teaching position to help support her husband Willie (Logan Bartholomew) and their two children. They have a young son Mattie, and a baby daughter Kathy. They al…
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