Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Western, Western film
U.S. Cavalry officer Capt. Kern Shafter is court-martialed for stabbing fellow officer Lt.
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Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
Western film
In Zorro's Black Whip the word Zorro never occurs, but a woman who behaves like Don Diego in Idaho fights a cabal of corrupt politicians as "The Black Whip" after her brother (the original Black Whip) is killed. Hammond, owner of the town'…
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Mustang Country (1976)
Western film
The film, set in 1925 along the Montana-Canada border, is about a rancher and former rodeo star named Dan (Joel McCrea) and his rottweiler Luke. While trying to capture an elusive mustang nicknamed "Shoshone", Dan comes across a runaway bo…
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The Long Ride Home (2003)
Western film
In 1866 New Mexico, a man going by the pseudonym Jack Cole, a famous gunman, is shot by a man hiding in the bushes. Jack's horse takes him to the home of Laura Fowler and her son Daniel, who nurse Jack back to health. Deputy Abel Hart arri…
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Fort Yuma (1955)
Western, Western film
When word reaches a U.S. Cavalry command that an Apache chief's son is planning an attack on Fort Yuma, a column of soldiers led by Lt. Ben Keegan is sent to deliver ammunition and supplies.
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One More Train to Rob (1971)
Western, Western film
Train-robber Harker Fleet, set up by his former partner, Timothy Xavier Nolan, is sent to prison for assaulting a sheriff and his deputy while trying to escape a forced marriage. Fleet serves his time, but gets out of prison early, for goo…
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Valerie (1957)
Drama, Forensic, Western, Western film
Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictory flashback sequences are depicted.
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The Hired Gun (1957)
Western, Western film
In the Old West, Ellen Beldon is about to be hanged in Texas for the cold-blooded murder of her husband. Her uncle’s ranch foreman, Judd Farrow, masquerading as a priest, breaks her out of jail and escorts Ellen to a safe hideout at her un…
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Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
Animalhorror, Western
In an old mine outside of Reno, Nevada, a local rancher named Eddie discovers a large mutated sheep embryo. Scientist Professor Clemens and his assistant Mariposa take the embryo to his laboratory. Clemens reveals that he came to the area …
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Fort Defiance (1951)
Western, Western film
Ben Shelby visits a cattle ranch outside Fort Defiance, Arizona in search of Johnny Tallon. He meets Johnny's blind brother Ned, who believes that Ned should be home soon. Ben meets Ned's uncle Charlie and helps repel two men trying to che…
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The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
Western film, biographical film
In the early 1900s, Will Rogers returns to his hometown in Oklahoma after two years of drifting. He meets and falls in love with Betty Blake, a friend of his sister's, but is unwilling to settle down on the ranch because he is happier meet…
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Fighting Caravans (1931)
Western, Western film
Clint Belmet is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson and Jim Bridger talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married…
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Daughter of Dawn (1920)
Western
The film focuses around a love triangle. The lead female character is Dawn, played by Esther LeBarre, daughter of the chief of the Kiowa (played by Hunting Horse.) Dawn wishes to wed White Eagle (played by White Parker, son of Comanche lea…
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The Painted Desert (1931)
Western, Western film
Two cowboy friends, Jeff and Cash, are traveling through the desert in the southwest U.S., when they come upon a baby who has been abandoned in the back of a covered wagon. Unwilling to leave the defenseless child they decide to take the b…
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Canyon River (1956)
Western, Western film
A cattleman, Steve Patrick, goes south to pick up breeding stock that he can cross-breed to withstand his Wyoming ranch's winters, but his foreman is in cahoots with a crooked businessman from the ranch's hometown in Wyoming. They plan to …
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Showdown (1963)
Western, Western film
Two cowboys, Chris Foster and Bert Pickett, go into town to cash their paychecks. Bert gets in a fight after getting drunk and involves Chris. Bert and Chris are put in iron collars, chained to a killer, LaValle.
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Masterson of Kansas (1954)
Western, Western film
Bat Masterson is a gunslinger. Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday come together in a common cause. The three intend to protect an impending land exchange between honest rancher Merrick and peace-seeking Indian chief Yellow Hawk against…
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California (1947)
Western, Western film
Jonathan Trumbo, a deserter who had been an army lieutenant, is hired to guide a wagon train bound for California during the California Gold Rush. When a woman named Lily Bishop is accused of cheating at poker in a saloon, farmer Michael F…
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The Americano (1955)
Western, Western film
Texas rancher Sam Dent takes a small herd of three Brahman bulls to Brazil, where he sells them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war, as well as in love. Following this, he must find out who are his fri…
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Smoke Signal (1955)
Western, Western film
Cavalry officer Brett Halliday is facing a court-martial for treason over his defection to a Ute tribe that has been making raids on soldiers. After a bloody attack at the fort, survivors ford the Colorado River in boats, fleeing for their…
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Fort Ti (1953)
Western, Western film
As war is raging across 18th-century colonial America, a band of famed native fighters join British forces for an assault on a French stronghold.
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The Tracker (1988)
Western, Western film
Noble Adams served as a scout in the US Army during the Indian Wars. He resigns and takes his wife Lottie and two-year-old son Tom to a farm he has bought. On the way, Lottie dies in an accident.
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Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Western, Western film
Three years after the end of the Apache Wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza (Rock Hudson) shares his ideas, but (in this fictional narrative) brother Naiche (Bart Roberts) yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oon…
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)
Western, Western film
Ryker, a murderous western outlaw, leaves death and destruction behind after a robbery in Poker Flat and leaves the loot with his wife, Cal, before riding off. A while later, the shaken town decides to banish all undesirables. They include…
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