Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Western, Western film
On foot in the desert after the mercy killing of his horse, Wes Steele finds a stagecoach and a number of dead passengers. He takes a horse and rides to Mesa. The Acting Sheriff pulls a gun on him, after seeing the stagecoach horses return.
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Blaxploitation, Western, blaxploitation film, crime film
In Texas in 1911, Thomasine knocks out a man who attempted to force himself on her sexually without paying for her prostitution services. She is revealed to actually be a bounty hunter who used her attractiveness to lure in her latest, uns…
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Western, Western film
Two fur traders, Jim Rainbolt (Clint Walker) and Shaun Garrett (Roger Moore), stumble across a big gold strike. Shaun goes to a nearby town to buy a pack horse for the gold, but makes the mistake of paying for the animal with a gold nugget…
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Western, Western film
Set in 1869, during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, are levying high taxes through occupy…
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Western, Western film
Ruthless cattle baron Hunter Boyd orders his riders to capture a former ranch-hand, Tod Lohman, suspected of murdering one of Boyd's sons, Shorty. The victim's brother, Otis Boyd, initiates a stampede to facilitate Lohman's capture, but To…
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Drama, Western film
Prospector Jonathan Harvey, whose faithful companion is a Rough Collie and a descendant of Lassie named Shep, is a friend of his deceased partner Martha Blake's family, including her son Tommy. After years of digging in the hills of Califo…
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Western, Western film
Bat Masterson has signed over his Hays City, Kansas saloon to his friend Ben Townsend in order to cover a gambling debt, and is hunting buffalo to earn the money to buy the saloon back. As a favor to Ben, he takes along Ben's mentally disa…
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Western, Western film
A tubercular retired gunfighter (Rory Calhoun) and a saloonkeeper (David Brian) play cards, with the saloon and a dance-hall girl (Piper Laurie) at stake.
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Western film, comedy film
In 1886, Sergeant Bugs Bunny of the United States Cavalry receives orders to guard Fort Lariat while the cavalry goes on a special mission. Bugs patrols the fort, but a Native American army led by Renegade Sam wants to take over it. Sam or…
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Komödie, Western, Western film
Corset company owner and supporter of women's suffrage Rose Gillray has her wagon struck by a 'horseless carriage' in 1897 New York. This early automobile is driven by Charlie Masters, who tells her it is the transportation of the future. …
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Western, Western film
Zachary Hallock moves to the town of Timberline with his son Josh to start a farm. In town, young Josh meets a boy named Daniel Skaggs who has an older sister, Sarah Jane. A shootout in the street results in the sheriff's death.
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Western, Western film
During the American Civil War, Union Army Captain Mike McComb is cashiered from the army when he disobeys orders in order to prevent the Confederates from stealing the one million dollars he is guarding by burning the money. After being pu…
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Western, Western film
Choya, a gunfighter on the run, is caught by cowboys Leffingwell and Tattoo in the mountains. They force him to participate in a scheme to bilk a rich rancher named Lavery. The plan requires a tattoo on Choya's shoulder, but as soon as Tat…
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Western, romance film
Former brawler and womanizer Luke Fargo returns from the American Civil War to his Southern hometown a greatly changed man. Following his traumatic experience at the Battle of Vicksburg, he has become a minister, intent on rebuilding the t…
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Western, drama film
The year is 1880 and William Bonney is already a famous gunslinger, known as "Billy the Kid". In Lincoln, New Mexico, Billy helps his friend Pedro Gonzales escape from jail, where he was put by mean sheriff Cass McAndrews. Later, Billy and…
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Western, Western film
Santee (Rory Calhoun) becomes a bounty hunter to earn enough money to marry Anna (Terry Moore), the woman he loves. But, when he returns home to Kile, Kansas, he learns she has married Ralph Elkins (James Best), a sheriff, and left town. S…
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Western film, drama film, family film, historical film
The sisters of the legendary Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe are nearing completion of a chapel, but the architect, contractor and laborers have all omitted stairs to the choir loft. This becomes a source of disagreement and contention between …
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Western, Western film
Lee Travis, a gambler and gunslinger from the South, is captured during the Civil War. He's given a chance to redeem himself by bringing law and order to the town of Colton, Arizona, where he's to replace the corrupt Sheriff Grover. Mayor …
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Western, Western film, romance film
A stranger, calling himself Jeff Young, imposes on rancher Lucy Lee for a meal and a night's rest, then saves her from being robbed. Jeff helps deliver her cattle to town, where he encounters Kit Banion running her saloon, The Maverick Que…
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Western, Western film
After the Civil War, brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to their parents' Texas ranch. Neil is content to simply help operate the ranch, but Dan's ambition is to build an empire in the manner of ruthless business tycoon Cord Hardin. Hard…
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Drama, Western, Western film, adventure film
The film is set in the early 19th century. Winterhawk, a Blackfoot chief, seeks help for his smallpox infected tribe by attempting to trade furs. In a double cross by two outlaws named Gates and Scoby, the furs are stolen and Winterhawk's …
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Western, Western film
In 1880s Indian Territory (future Oklahoma), a rancher reluctantly agrees to take up the post of federal marshal and tackle a violent gang of outlaws ravaging the territory.
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
In the autumn of 1864, remnants of the Confederate 5th Georgia Cavalry are prisoners of war in the Union prison camp at Rock Island, Illinois. Sick and dying in deplorable conditions, they find a chance for survival when Union captain Mark…
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