Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Western, Western film
In a small town in 1880s Colorado, a gang of outlaws led by Drago rob a train and kidnap a saloon singer, Uvalde. Determined to chase them down, the sheriff, Chad Lucas, forms a posse which includes Uvalde's fiancé, Nate Harlan, Mark Emers…
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Komödie, Western, comedy film
Bickford Waner, who has failed as a train robber, decides to go straight and get an honest job. He arrives in Dime Box, Texas, to find work. He is befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly.
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Classical Western, Western film
In 1848, after the end of the Mexican–American War and with the advent of California statehood, an American gunslinger named Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) kills a Mexican man in California. He is arrested for the murder by Jim Ellison (P…
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Western film
American insurance agent Breen Mathews is hired to transport a family treasure from Mexico to the United States. The treasure was stolen from Indians to finance the overthrow of the Mexican government. Unbeknownst to Mathews is the curse t…
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Western, drama film
The story is narrated by an unnamed boy, now an old man, 'as best as he can remember'. In the spring of 1862, in the Cumberland Mountains 'down near the Tennessee line', war sympathies were strongly divided, neighbors against neighbors. Af…
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Western film
A U.S. cavalry officer, Hemp Brown (Rory Calhoun), runs into some serious trouble when the party of civilians and troops he's bringing to a nearby Army fort is ambushed. A woman is killed during the gunfight, and money is stolen by the ban…
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Western film
In southern California near Santa Barbara shortly after California became part of the United States, American settlers and the U.S. government discriminate against the Mexican landowners and frequently take their land by force or legal sku…
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Western, Western film
Adam Stewart, a lawyer heading west with grown son Howie, is persuaded by brother John to settle down near him in Ocatilla, Arizona, where he has a ranch and romantic interest in a widow, Corinne Michaels. The menacing degenerate rancher W…
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Horror, Western, horror film
The first story, told by Morrison, is about an Indian tribe's revenge against a grouchy old man (Will Hare) who desecrates their burial ground. When that tale fails to impress Deeds, the second story, also by Morrison, tells about a man (M…
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Western, drama film
Veteran rancher and former sheriff John Landsburg must face federal bureaucracy when an old enemy, Tap Peterson, alleges John does not actually own the family's Texas ranch.
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Classical Western, biographical film, drama film
right|thumb|200x200px|Studio publicity photograph with Alan Ladd and Anthony Caruso In the early 19th century, Jim Bowie leaves his home in the Louisiana bayou to sell lumber in New Orleans. He inadvertently offends Narcisse de Bornay by d…
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Western, Western film
Jim Dancer (Scott) is one of Quantrill's Raiders and a close friend of Jesse James (Robertson). They are involved in the Lawrence Massacre, during which Dancer kills Theodore Slocum after mistaking him for his brother Bert Slocum (Kelley),…
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Western, Western film, thriller film
Wild West gunslinger and gambler John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson) is pardoned and released from a Huntsville, Texas prison in 1896, after serving 16 years of a 25-year sentence. He delivers a manuscript of his life, written during his inca…
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Western, revisionist Western
In 1862 in New Mexico Territory, good relations between Fort Buchanan's commanding officer, Maj. Colton and Chiricahua Apache Indian chief Cochise are threatened by the arrival of government agent Neil Baylor and his dishonest scout Mescal…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Albert Gallatin "Lat" Evans, an earnest young cowboy determined to better his situation, wins a job with a cattle drive by busting a wild horse. Befriended by cowhand Tom Ping, Lat fantasizes about owning his own ranch and being rich one d…
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Western, Western film
U.S. Marshal Johnny Reno is on his way to the town of Stone Junction on personal business. As he rides through the desert, the fugitive Conners brothers see him and believe he is tracking them.
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Action, Western, Western film
Five prisoners, due to be hanged, are given pardons on condition they join the Confederate army which is desperate for men to complete a mission during the last days of the American Civil War in its Western territory. Their given task is t…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
After the American Civil War ends, key military and government leaders meet in Washington D.C. Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok goes to Dodge City where he hangs up his gun belt and takes over a card table. Local lawmen are unable to rid the to…
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Komödie, Western film, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=2|Go West (1925) A drifter identified only as "Friendless" sells the last of his possessions, keeping only a few trinkets and a picture of his mother. Unable to find a job in the city, he stows away on a train heading …
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Western, Western film
Johnny Crale, a gunfighter clad in black, stands in the middle of a street in fictional Prairie City, facing an opponent, George Hansen, who is armed only with a whaler's harpoon. In an extended flashback, we see the wealthy McNeil, who wa…
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Spaghetti Western, Western film, comedy film
Roy King's gang robs a bank and flees to Mexico on a train. Roy meets a beautiful woman, Alicia, and marries her, only to have her run off with all of the money. An offer comes his way to blow up the arsenal of the Mexican army, then rob t…
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Western film, drama film
Set in the year 1861, Matt Colter, a mountain man, is traveling across the great divide with his young Native bride, Little Doe. As they cross paths with a Paiute party, a beautiful young woman Wannetta watches the mountain man and his pre…
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Western, Western film
Emporia, Wyoming is a lawless town in need of a new sheriff. Preacher Sam Stone and businessman George Gates suggest that Mayor Ned West release gunfighter Waco from jail to take up the job. At first, the mayor rejects Gates' suggestion, b…
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Western film
In his last act before retirement, Horne, a western sheriff, tracks down the Sawyer brothers, who have robbed a bank of $50,000. He kills one and apprehends the other. Ross Sawyer, a wanted outlaw and father of the boys, intends to interce…
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