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Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,226 films · Page 34.

Destry (1954)

Western, Western film, comedy film

The sheriff of a small western town dies of a 'heart attack' and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, and leading crook Phil Decker appoint the town drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby, as the new sheriff, believing that he wil…

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Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)

Western, Western film

A census taker arrives in the Texas town of Cold Iron, population 754. Seeking a cold beer, he enters the local bar and notices a painting of a violent street fight with a gun hanging above it. The bartender explains the story behind the p…

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Reprisal! (1956)

Western, Western film

A man named Frank Madden (Guy Madison) buys a ranch near a small town. Greedy neighboring ranchers, the Shipleys, had been grazing their cattle on the ranch while it was setting empty. Madden hires American Indians to help him on the ranch.

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Texas (1941)

Western, Western film, romance film

Two Confederate veterans, broke and homeless, are making their way to Texas to start fresh. After comedic adventures getting into and out of trouble, just trying to make enough money to get to Texas, they witness a stagecoach robbery and m…

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Taggart (1964)

Western, Western film

Just arriving at their newly bought land, Kent Taggart's family has their cattle stampeded and they are murdered by Ben Blazer and his son. Blazer is seriously wounded. Later in a fair gunfight Kent kills Blazer's son.

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Seminola (1953)

Western, Western film

At Fort King, Florida, in 1835, Lieutenant Lance Caldwell is charged with the murder of a sentry. At his court martial, he recounts the story of the fragile peace between the settlers and the native Seminole and how that peace is threatene…

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Westward Ho the Wagons! (1956)

Western, Western film

A small group of families join together to travel to Oregon in 1846. Their leader is ostensibly James Stephen (George Reeves), who has made the trip before, and is now bringing his family along. John Grayson (Fess Parker), known as Doc for…

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Ghost Town (1988)

Horror, Western, action film, horror film, thriller film

Kate (Catherine Hickland) is driving alone down a highway in Riverton, Arizona after having left her fiancé at the altar. While driving, she hears the noise of horses galloping outside her car, but sees no one. After pulling onto the side …

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A Time for Dying (1969)

Western, Western film

Cass Bunning (Richard Lapp), a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie (Anne Randall), a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel. Cass help…

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40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)

Western, Western film

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense again…

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Dust (2001)

Western, drama film

In present-day New York City, a young criminal, Edge, is confronted at gunpoint by an ailing old woman, Angela, whose apartment he is attempting to burgle. While he awaits an opportunity to escape, she launches into a tale about two outlaw…

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Mother Lode (1982)

Adventure, Western, action film, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film

Mollyco Company employee George Spalding disappears after a flight into northern British Columbia's interior wilderness to search for gold. His friend and colleague, Jean Dupre, contacts his wife Andrea to ask if George told her where he w…

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Great Day in the Morning (1956)

Western, Western film

In 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Owen Pentecost is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver in the Colorado Territory on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine, who is going there to open a dress shop. In a D…

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Riding Shotgun (1954)

Western, Western film

For three years, Larry Delong has been hunting the outlaw Dan Marady, who killed his sister and nephew in a stagecoach holdup. He is now riding shotgun on a stage hoping for an encounter with Marady and a chance to kill him. At a rest stop…

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Ten Who Dared (1960)

Western film

The film is set in the United States, in 1869. Thanks to the activity of explorers, soldiers and trappers, the American territory is now well known. On the cards, there are few places marked with an explicit Unexplored (unexplored).

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Rage at Dawn (1955)

Western, Western film

Four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint, is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves as a housekeeper and cook to the brothers. Some of them served in the…

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The Cimarron Kid (1952)

Western, Western film

Bill Doolin is released from jail and is traveling home on the train when it is robbed by his boyhood friends, the Dalton Gang. Doolin is later accused of helping the crime and becomes an outlaw. He rides to the hideout of the Dalton gang,…

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The Badlanders (1958)

Caper-Movie, Western, heist film

In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek, nicknamed the "Dutchman", tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The oth…

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Silver Lode (1954)

Western, Western film

The film, with a similar plot to High Noon, tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into to…

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Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

Western, Western film

Rustlers steal horses belonging to wealthy Wyoming rancher Jeremy Rodock and shoot him. He is found by young cowboy Steve Miller, who digs out the bullet, saves Rodock's life, and is offered a job at the ranch. Rodock believes in lynching …

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