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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
A priest, Father Michael Keogh, is sent by Rome to Quantana, a remote Mexican town which is under the control of a ruthless bandit, Anacleto Comachi. Anacleto is educated and intelligent, and is "down" on the Church, but he finds in Keogh …
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Western, Western film
In 1860, Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. On the way, they battle the weather, hostile Indians and California secessionists intent on shutting the…
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Drama, Western, Western film
Wyatt Earp sits down with a reporter in a suite at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in 1907. The reporter is eager for information about the legendary "Buntline Special", a Colt six-shooter with a 12-inch barrel. He and Earp talk about …
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Film Noir, Western, Western film, film noir
Set in New Mexico around the turn of the 20th century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb Rand, whose entire family was slaughtered when he was a child. In the aftermath of the massacre Jeb is found by Mrs Callum, a wido…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, heist film, treasure hunt film
Sam Whiskey, an adventurer and rogue in the Old West, is seduced by Laura Breckenridge, a wealthy widow and daughter of a prominent Oklahoma political family, into promising to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from a riverboat that recently …
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Adventure, Western film
Devereaux Burke receives a request from former president Andrew Jackson to facilitate the annexation of Texas into the United States. Opposition to annexation is gaining favor because it is mistakenly believed that Texas pioneer Sam Housto…
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Western, Western film
Following the American Civil War, peace is maintained in the New Mexico Territory by Fort Invincible, a fortification set up outside a mountain pass that blocks marauding bands of Apache Indians. The Apache are able to eventually take the …
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Western, Western film
In 1864, Union army officer Captain John Hayes is asked to take charge of the Overland stagecoach line, which makes eastbound gold shipments from California that aid the Union's war effort. Hayes travels to Overland headquarters in his hom…
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Western, Western film, action film
When the war ends, the cavalry unit commanded by Graff makes the decision to stay together, and turn outlaw. They begin committing bank robberies, and are successful due to their experience and tactics. Local citizens and lawmen are no mat…
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Western, Western film
Union Colonel Owen Devereaux orders his regiment to fire on a detachment of Confederate soldiers, even though he (and only he) has seen that they are signaling their surrender with a white flag. Immediately after the battle, the soldiers l…
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Komödie, Parodie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In Serendipity, Colorado, before the 1908 United States presidential election, Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, has finally found after 15 years his ex-business partner Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a…
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Classical Western, Western film
In the spring of 1865 in Nevada, a small band of Confederate soldiers disguised as civilians intercept a shipment of gold bars that is being escorted through the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains by Union cavalry troops. Follow…
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Western, Western film
Talion is an ex-bounty hunter turned homesteader who, after his ranch is burned to the ground and his wife and child are murdered, meets up with and hires bounty hunter Benny Wallace to track down the killer, Ike Slant. Along the way, they…
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Western, Western film
Set in the American Southwest, the territorial governor enlists the help of the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on white settlers by Native Americans who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to expand his land…
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Western, adventure film
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
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Western, Western film
Returning home from the War of 1812, John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette de Marchand. He discovers a plot to steal the land on which Fleurette's exiles plan to settle. Breen is mistaken for a land s…
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Western, Western film
The survivors of a squad of cavalry led by Sergeant Blake are escorting a prisoner, Corbin, back to their fort. Corbin had been attempting to sell repeating rifles to the Apache, and the cavalry are now carrying the rifles. They encounter …
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Western
The Warrant is set in a post-civil war America. The plot follows John Breaker, played by Neal McDonough, who served in the American Civil War before becoming a local sheriff, along with his son, Cal Breaker, a Federal Marshal, played by St…
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Western, Western film
Retired gunslinger and former Confederate soldier Steve Sinclair is living as a rancher in a small western community. He collaborates with the main landowner Dennis Deneen, from whom he rents the ranch, to preserve communal stability. His …
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Western, biographical film
Set in Belmont-Gonzales, Texas in 1901. After a misunderstanding, a Mexican-American farmer kills a sheriff. He eludes capture and becomes a folk hero.
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Western, Western film
On the last day of the Civil War, Confederate soldier O'Meara shoots Driscoll, a Union lieutenant. After seeing that Driscoll is not dead, O'Meara takes him to a field hospital in nearby Appomattox and learns that General Lee is in the pro…
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Western, Western film, drama film
The time of the film is just before the surrender of Apache Chief Geronimo on September 4, 1886, and the setting is in Arizona and Mexico. Matt has been out prospecting and visits Dan Reilly's store to cash in his gold dust and pick up his…
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Komödie, Western, Western film
Jed Catlow and Ben Cowan served together in the Civil War and became friends but now Catlow is a thief and Cowan a marshal tracking him down. Catlow is accused of rustling cattle, especially from the wealthy rancher Parkman. Parkman has hi…
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Drama, Western, drama film
In a time when and place where women were not usually permitted careers, especially in the medical field, Belinda Tyler (Scout Taylor-Compton) deeply wants to be a doctor and feels that God has called her to be one. She displays her abilit…
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