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Western, biographical film, drama film
The film begins in 1874, when John Clum arrives in Tucson, Arizona as the new Indian agent of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. He meets with Arizona Territory Governor Safford and Army General Wade, both of whom mock the Departmen…
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Western, Western film
The setting is the Ponderosa in 1905. Augustus Brandenburg (Dean Stockwell), a land baron, attempts to take the Ponderosa first by legal, and then by illegal means, to strip the land of its natural resources. The story includes several fla…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
Peter "Junior" Potter has graduated from Harvard and heads west to the western town of Sawbuck Pass to claim his father's fortune. Driving into town in a jalopy, wearing a comical striped suit jacket, he splashes mud all over a crowd of to…
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Romance Film, Western, comedy film
In the 1880s, followed by bill collectors, the Healy Dramatic Company arrives in Cheyenne to play at the west's grandest theater. Tom Healy's troupe includes performers Angela Rossini, Della Southby, Lorna Hathaway and Doc Montague. After …
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Classical Western, Western film
During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen by lot to leave the fort and check on his family and warn other families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Anna. But when everyone who sta…
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Western, Zombiefilm, post-apocalyptic film
After a zombie apocalypse, humanity reverts to a way of life reminiscent of the Old West. However, a woman named Apocalypta has decided to train zombies to use as her army to take over what is left of the world. After creating her army, wh…
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Western, Western film
One day in contemporary Mexicali, a poker game in the back room of a cantina includes horse breeder Jim Carey, cowboys Shep and Johnny, a prospector called Old Willy, a stranger in town named Frazee and a drifter, Chalk. Guitar player Josh…
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Western, Western film
A young drifter is found stealing food at Horse Davis' ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse's daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse. Given the nickname …
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Western, Western film
Connie Dickason is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey, a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Instead, Connie takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of t…
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War Film, propaganda film
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives.
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Action, Western, Western film
During the Yukon Gold Rush, brothers Wyatt and Samuel set off to take in their estranged father, Jebediah, who is rumored to have turned violent after the gold mine he was working dried up. Samuel and his family are about to be evicted fro…
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Western, Western film, drama film
thumb|left|upright|James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in The Oklahoma KidPresident Cleveland signs a law allowing sale of the Cherokee Strip in the Oklahoma Territory. After the money arrives by train, it is loaded onto a stagecoach which is…
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Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western
A blind but deadly gunman is hired to escort 50 mail order brides to their miner husbands. When he is double-crossed by his friends and a Mexican bandit, he heads for Mexico to settle scores and save the women.
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
Phoebe Ann Naylor is about to be wed to Don Andrea Baldazar, El Duce de la Casala, in Louisiana in 1845. The festivities are broken up by the arrival of Yancey Cottle and his relatives, who form a U.S. Dragoons troop under the command of C…
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Adventure, Western, Western film, adventure film
Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders and convinces them to surrender and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Clanton pledges that they will be paroled, but Matthew Fow…
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Western, Western film
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Cross rides into town, having failed as a gold prospector. His reputation is such that everyone expects him to shoot it out with Tenneray, who capitalize…
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Western, Western film, romantic comedy
Shy and naive mountain trapper Yancy travels through Wyoming with his uncle and his uncle's Indian wife. After Uncle Lije is injured by a bear, Yancy is sent to trade their beaver pelts for money and supplies. When he arrives at the tradin…
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Western, Western film
In 1865, following the end of the American Civil War, a ruthless band of Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders continues their violent rampage, refusing to surrender. Led by the infamous William Quantrill, the group is hunted…
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comedy drama
John McCanless is a rip-snorting, 79-year-old western rancher, together with the prettiest granddaughter; ugliest horse; scrawniest herd; and puniest partner, a Mexican handyman, go on a cattle drive (of one cow) and do battle against a we…
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Romance Film, Western, drama film
thumb|left|Sterling Hayden and Jane Wyman in So Big In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father…
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Western, Western film, action film, drama film
A car pulls up to an historical marker in the desert that reads: ROCKY MOUNTAIN, also known as Ghost Mountain. On March 26, 1865, a detachment of Confederate cavalry crossed the state line into California under secret orders from Gen. Robe…
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Western, Western film
Captain Stanton is a renowned Indian Fighter who harbors a deep and abiding animosity for Indians, because his career officer father was forced to resign after trusting a group of Indians who broke their word to him. Stanton is sent into t…
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Western, Western film
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig arrives in San Francisco, en route to Sacramento, and visits a saloon while waiting for a river boat. The locals scoff at his eastern attire and polite manners and are astounded when he orders milk at the bar. T…
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Western, Western film
In the town of Red Rock, gun salesman Steve Farrell demonstrates the new Colt .45 repeating pistols to the sheriff. The demonstration is interrupted when men arrive to transfer one of the prisoners to another jail. As he is being led away,…
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