Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Western, Western film
Four passengers in a stagecoach, belonging to the Missouri Western Stage and Freight Line, are heading west through Indian territory: Barbara, a young woman going to meet her fiancée; Reverend Wheedle, a minister who believes the settlers …
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Western, Western film, action film, detective film
A gang of Colorado bank robbers led by Amos Troop uses a technique where they break prisoners out of jail, use them to commit crimes, then later kill them to collect the reward. A detective, Gifford, goes undercover with the gang to bring …
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Western, Western film, drama film
The film takes the plot of William Shakespeare's King Lear and places it in the Republic of Texas during the 19th century. Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a wealthy cattle baron and analog to King Lear. In the story, Lear exiles his yo…
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Jesse James and his friends—brother Frank, brothers Cole and Jim Younger and Kit Dalton—arrive in Lawrence, Kansas and are falsely accused of being members of Quantrill's Raiders. They are about to be lynched but are saved by the intervent…
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Western, Western film
A trio of outlaws, Jim Dawkins (Holden), Lorn Reming (Carey), and Reuben "Wahoo" Jones (Bendix), rob a stage. But when a young lady, Rannie Carter (Freeman), is menaced by rich and ruthless protection-racketeer Charley Calico (Alfonso Bedo…
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Western film
The movie begins with a screenwriter driving out into the desert and meeting up with an old timer who spins him a tale of the Old West: Jud McGraw is a stagecoach driver who gets robbed by a gang led by Nimmo. He then gets blamed for steal…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film
In 1901, Half-breed Juliette Flores sees her tribe and village slaughtered by Mexican troops. Still a child, she takes revenge by slipping into the home of the soldiers' commander, General Juarez, and cutting his throat in his bedroom. In …
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U.S. Marshal Andrew Barclay arranges the escape of outlaw Tom Tanner in order to locate $250,000 in gold stolen by Tanner in a stagecoach robbery. Tanner ambushes Barclay and forces him to trade clothes and accompany him to a bank, where T…
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It is 1912 and groups of Mexican revolutionaries have been attacking towns on both sides of the Mexican–American border. The most powerful of these groups is led by a former Mexican army general, Héctor Cordoba. When a surprise attack resu…
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Biographical picture, Western
Western film
Western, Western film
Kirby Randolph is a veteran scout who comes to hate all Indians after being betrayed by a Kiowa chief called Satank, whose massacre killed many men and ruined Kirby's reputation. Kirby and his partner Sam Beekman are offered work by Jess G…
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Western, Western film
John Vickers, a former Union officer in the American Civil War, has spent eight years hunting the three men who murdered the woman whom he loved. He finds one of them, Woodson, who tells him that the other two have joined the cavalry befor…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
Some of the scenes in the film include a voiceover narrative told by a white trader who knew the Lakota Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. When young Crazy Horse (Victor Mature) wins his bride, rival Little Big Man (Ray Danton) goes to villainous tr…
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Western, Western film
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that the man is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Soon after Santee catches up to the gang, Jody's father is killed. Jody…
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drama film, romance film
In the Alaskan wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry M…
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Western, Western film
Cocky young drifter Jess Harker (Robert Wagner) wants to be a driver on the stagecoach's main line, just like Race Crim (Dale Robertson), his hero. The coach line's boss, Luke Bowen, doesn't believe Jess is ready yet. Race goes to bat for …
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Western, Western film
At the local saloon, prospectors Len Briggs and Bob Pliny brag about finding gold at their mine. Bad guys Tex Brandaw and Jim Rupple decide to follow the two prospectors and steal their mine. Drifter Nick Buckley, who is passing through to…
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Adventure, Late Western, Romance Film, Western film
Set in 1848, in the Montana Territory, Ben Johnson plays John Coulter who lives on the plains with his daughter Beth and his friend Standing Bear. The story is told mainly from a Native American point of view. Beth is kidnapped by Greyeagl…
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Western, adventure film
In 1848, after four years away from New Orleans, Vance Colby is summoned by his gambler father. On a riverboat, a gambler named Gottfried accuses him of cheating. Vance beats him into submission, but when Vance's back is turned, Gottfried …
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Western, Western film
A range war is building in Wyoming. Caught on opposite sides are Sam Brassfield, who builds fences to protect his grass land, and Clay Mathews, a cattle baron determined to keep an open range. Both men argue their case before the cattlemen…
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Western, Western film
Jim Wylie is a gambler in Laramie, Wyoming Territory who is wanted by the Nevada law. He gets a proposal from a Wells Fargo agent; if he can help locate a bandit known as "The Poet" who has been robbing stagecoaches, all pending charges wi…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, musical film, romantic comedy
Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero, flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits …
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Western, Western film
Clay Fletcher (John Payne), lawyer and returned Civil War Confederate officer, feels he needs to ease back into his legal career; he takes an assignment to travel west from his home state of South Carolina to a "frontier settlement called …
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