Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Western film
During construction of the first transcontinental railroad, unscrupulous land grabbers are buying up land on which the railroad is to be built, forcing the U.S. government to purchase it at inflated prices. The government has deployed Sena…
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Western, Western film
Wealthy banker and shipowner William Marlowe and his wife Martha have their hearts set on marrying their daughter Mary to English aristocrat Lord Hurley. However, Mary has other ideas. She has fallen in love with John Carlton, one of her f…
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Classical Western, Western film
In 1881, a gang of four bandits have their eye on robbing the bank of Cholla, Arizona. Although several attempts have ended in the town cemetery for previous bank robbers, Cully, the leader, has a plan. On the run from their latest dud sch…
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romantic comedy
Mike, a bartender at the Texas Golden Horse bar in Brooklyn, narrates the story of Eddie Tayloe to a new customer. Eddie was working as a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper.
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B western, Western
An impoverished saddle tramp from Utah, John Weston, rides into a small town seeking work. He finds himself gunning down a trio of men robbing a local bank. The marshal sees the fearless, quick-drawing, sharp-shooting, hard-riding stranger…
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Western, Western film
Set in 1855 Texas, Army Lt. Cam Elliott (George Montgomery) is detailed in capturing a tribe of Seminole Indians who have fled their Florida reservation for the Lone Star state. Arriving at the Army fort to which he has been assigned, Elli…
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Western, Western film
Three escaped convicts in prison garb, led by cold-blooded killer Lednov, ambush and murder three cowboys, taking their clothes and firearms. They burn their prison garb in the smoldering camp fire, and the trio quickly rides on seeking re…
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Western film
The film begins with scenes of life in Wyoming Territory, where new settlers join the cattle business by finding stray, unbranded cattle, called "mavericks", on public land. The narrator explains that established ranchers use the "Maverick…
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Western, drama film
Horse owner Beaver Greenway is angry when Thunderhead, the white stallion that owner Ken McLaughlin freed some years earlier, steals another of his mares. Greenway confronts Ken's father, Rob, at the Goose Bar Ranch. Rob organizes other ra…
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action film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film
In California, a homeless and mentally ill man, Rex, comes to believe he is a gunfighter from the American Old West, and heads for Los Angeles. While travelling, he begins a murder spree, and his victims include police officers. He becomes…
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Western film
A recently demobilized soldier's property and girl are taken from him by a greedy rancher whose henchmen have control over the town, but the ex-soldier plans a decisive showdown with his tormentors to right the wrongs. Unusual in that half…
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Western film, action film, romantic comedy
In Civil War-era Southern Missouri, Dr. Maggie McCullough travels to the aid of her ailing aunt, Annie, the town's madame, in the lovely community of Sweetwater. With all of the men away at war, Maggie coordinates a truce between Aunt Anni…
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Western, Western film
An on-screen intro tells us that the film is set in the late 1870s, when some people, “branded by the war, the land, the violence...wandered alone – drifting into oblivion,” and this is the story of four such people. Gabe Dunson, a drifter…
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Western, Western film
In the Arizona Territory during 1875, rancher John Rutherford has gathered a posse to attempt to remove a squatter, Corey Everett, from his land. After Rutherford and his son Roy are wounded in a confrontation with Everett and later die fr…
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Western
In 1836, two prisoners escape from a Louisiana chain gang run by a vicious strong boss. In the process of the escape, the strong boss is killed which sets his brother, the ex-warden on a chase of the men. However, the two join up with Sam …
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Western
A veteran gunfighter is summoned to Red Pine in Wyoming by a former lover. She wants to protect her new husband (a store-keeper who is the temporary town sheriff) from a gang of outlaws who want to free one of their number who is being hel…
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comedy horror, zombie film
Before his capture, Geronimo had cursed white men, causing people to become zombies. Later, at a house in a small town, a man named Ben Goodman (Brian Posehn) acts suspiciously. Ben proceeds to attack and eat his wife and daughter's brains.
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Western, Western film
The film opens with the Old-Timer talking to Tod Jackson, setting the background of the story. Tod doesn't want a history lesson, he just wants to know where the Dalton's live. The Dalton brothers, law-abiding farmers, move to Kansas from …
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Western film, horror film
The film begins with an outlaw named "Wild Bill" riding onto an apparent battlefield. He finds an elderly Mexican, who asks him "what happened" in Spanish "Qué pasa aqui?". He replies, "La Serpienta Del Diablo." Bill then walks to a carria…
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Western, Western film
Western film
Two brothers on opposite sides of the law become embroiled in an Arizona range war between cattlemen and farmers. As young men, the two brothers are forced to watch their supposed horse thief father hung by a posse. After the hanging the t…
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Western, Western film
Jules Vincent, a French-Canadian trapper (Stewart Granger), while in a northern Canadian town, helps an attractive Indian singer (Cyd Charisse), fend off unwanted attentions from a drunken Max Brody (Howard Petrie). The next day, Vincent s…
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Western, Western film
A young bandit called the Llano Kid is wanted by the law and has a price on his head. After seeing the local blacksmith, John Brown, a highly religious man who fancies himself a sheriff, the Kid gets into a poker game during which he notic…
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Western, Western film
Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain comes to a railway town inquiring about a woman, of whom all seem afraid to speak; he receives a beating just for asking. Chamberlain braves the threats and calls at her house; he discovers her s…
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