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Western
After robbing a train of $30,000, Irish outlaw Sean Devlin and his bandits interrupt their get-away to rob a stagecoach. While defending the coach, Matt's son-in-law Josh is shot in the leg, a traveling barbed wire salesman Davis Healy is …
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Italo-Western, Komödie, Silly Movie, Western
The plot line is derivative of The Dirty Dozen, but set during the American Civil War. In 1862, disgraced former US colonel Pembroke (James Coburn) wants to recapture Fort Holman, which he had previously surrendered to the Confederate army…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy television program
Isaiah Turner (Sinbad (comedian)) a.k.a. “The Cherokee Kid” faces The Undertaker (Gregory Hines) in a duel in Larabee, Texas, and appears to be killed, much to land-grabber Bloomington's (James Coburn) delight. At the funeral, Juan Cortina…
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Western film
The film opens with Eagle Boy, a young man who is on a vision quest. It then cuts to the present, where a young cynical Lakota named Shane Chasing Horse is living on the Pine Ridge reservation. He is in trouble because he owes some money t…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, musical film
Native American rodeo rider Joe Lightcloud is a Navajo whose family still lives on the reservation. He returns to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible that he uses to drive cattle. Joe persuades his congressman to give him 20 he…
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Western, drama film, war film
In 1864 during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Montréal, Quebec and then plan a raid across …
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Western, Western film, drama film
Davy Hackett (James Darren) and his hot-tempered, arrogant older brother Ed (Tab Hunter) are about to assist their rancher father Lee (Van Heflin) on a horse roundup. The brothers meet Cecily "Clee" Chouard (Kathryn Grant), a beautiful hal…
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Western, Western film
In the post-Civil War era, a US Cavalry detachment at Colorado's Fort Bellows seeks the help of Union Army veteran Miles Archer to rescue two white women, Ann and Jennie, who were abducted by the Cheyenne. Forming a unit that includes a gr…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
After the death of his outlaw brother, Jesse, Frank James seeks revenge on his killers, Bob and Charlie Ford.
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Western, Western film
Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Pete Lambert, leaving a young girl without a father. For the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning…
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Western, Western film
Reformed criminal Jake Wade breaks his former partner, Clint Hollister, out of jail in the small western town of Morganville. The men have not seen each other since the bank robbery and murder that resulted in Wade's arrest. Wade refuses t…
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Western, Western film
Rick Thorne, a circuit judge, rides into Bannerman and discovers everything in town is controlled by rich rancher Josiah Bannerman and his kin. He meets sheriff Nat Bell and district attorney Buck Streeter and asks why Bannerman's arrogant…
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Western, Western film
Gambler Jason Sweet wins a flock of sheep in a poker game and proceeds to take them by train into the middle of cattle country. Before long, the townsfolk take notice (and object), but Sweet is more than up to the challenge. The first thin…
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Western film, drama film
The fictional love story between Emily Hudson, the daughter of the wagon train's pastor, and Jonathan Samuelson, the son of the local Mormon bishop, plays out against the build-up to the tragedy itself. The film begins with the deposition …
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Western, Western film, action film
In 1860s Mexico, Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a gold prospecting hermit (who bounty hunts would-be claim jumpers on the side), team up with a band of Apache Indians to capture a heavily armed fortress for the thousands of gold bars…
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Western, Western film
During mid-1876, the US Cavalry officer Robert Parrish (Dale Robertson) is considered by some to be his own worst enemy because he is not a "team player". Formerly one of the youngest colonels in the Union Army during the United States Civ…
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Western, Western film
Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio. Clay claims to have proof,…
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Western, Western film
It is 1883. Hunting of buffalo has reduced the population from 60 million in 1853 to 3,000. This is the story of “the last of the buffalo hunts.” Sandy McKenzie, a famous buffalo hunter for the Army Engineers, has his small herd of cattle …
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Western, Western film
The film begins at a board of inquiry over the Battle of the Little Big Horn, specifically examining the conduct of Major Marcus Reno. Captain Bill Benton (perhaps inspired by Frederick Benteen) is called to the stand, and rather than mere…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the late 19th century American West, a gang of bank robbers, including Graham Dorsey (Charles Bronson), is off to rob a small-town bank, but Graham is having second thoughts: he's had a nightmare in which the gang was wiped out during t…
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Classical Western, Western film, silent film
thumb|right|thumbtime=5|The Iron Horse (full film) In Springfield, Illinois, surveyor David Brandon daydreams about a transcontinental railroad. He is mocked by railroad owner Thomas Marsh. A young Abraham Lincoln visits the men, and Brand…
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Western, Western film
Former Confederate cavalryman Capt. Colt Saunders comes home to Texas from the war during the Reconstruction era. Carpetbaggers have taken control of his town, including a corrupt Yankee tax commissioner named Harrison and his deputy Cable.
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Western, Western film, action film
Trying to put his life as a gunfighter behind him, Brazos Kane goes off to join old pal Bob Tyrell at the Inskip ranch. As Brazos approaches the spread, he hears a gunshot and sees two people riding off. He finds his friend shot dead.
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Drama, Western, drama film
In 1910 Wyoming, Elinor, a widow, and her seven-year old daughter Jerrine travel by train to a remote Wyoming ranch where Elinor has a job working as a housekeeper for Clyde Stewart, a reserved Scottish rancher. The ranch is a lonely place…
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