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A rancher helps a friend claim a spread he's inherited, only to find himself caught up in a web of lies and murder.
1952 Black-and-White American Crime Western Comedy Musical Film
The film opens with a runaway stagecoach with Rex and Slim in pursuit. Rex jumps on and stops the stagecoach, rescuing Jackie and Mattie. However, they mistake him for the careless stagecoach driver. Troubles arise when Jackie and Slim find they are inheriting a third...
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Billy the Kid and his friends come to the aid of ranchers victimized by a crooked land dealer.
1940 American Action Adventure Western Film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation, and 3rd in PRC's Billy the Kid series.
Billy the Kid and his friend Jeff are ambushed in a cabin by bounty hunters. They escape, but Jeff is wounded, so they decide to hide out at Jeff's uncle's ranch in Little Bend Valley.
He will soon find out that...
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A young gunfighter forms a tenuous alliance with an old former outlaw to hunt down and eliminate the bandits who killed his family.
1967 Italian Western drama film directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. The film revolves around Bill, a boy whose family was murdered and who goes out 15 years later for revenge, having used the time to become an expert marksman with a gun.
The brutal...
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A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so-called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
The pitiless gang of the notorious Mexican bandit, Monetero attacks a gold-laden railway convoy. Unbeknownst to them, however, the dauntless bounty hunter in black, known as the "Stranger" is after them. But a fortune in gold is always tempting, and as one of the thieves hides the loot, the hunter decides...
7) The Big Show
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When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio.
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Just after the Civil War, confederates attempt to establish a town with a Union fort nearby. But things become rocky when an Indian attack is staged.
1936 American Action Drama Historical Classic Western Film directed by Lynn Shores and written by John T. Neville.
The film begins in the aftermath of the Civil War, with a band of Confederate soldiers sworn never to accept the dishonor of surrender and their families, led by Captain John Morgan, on...
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Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and marked cards, Blake tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang hold him prisoner, he and his men trail them. When Thorne's gang gets the drop on them, Slim puts his ventriloquism to work.
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A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
1932 American Western Film
Dan Alton is a con artist, posing as a lawyer in order to sell copies of a phony law book. When Bill Clary robs a stagecoach, and plants some of the stolen money at the ranch of Luke Avery, Avery's beautiful sister Ruth ropes an instantly smitten Alton into being Avery's...
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In an effort to identify the person behind a string of murdered miners, Tex infiltrates a gang and finds himself accused of the crime instead.
1936 American Adventure Western film directed by John P. McCarthy. It stars Tex Ritter, this film being part of his debut as a singing cowboy.
Tex Ritter plays a cowboy who is sent to investigate a series of murders of miners in the southwestern United States. Tex soon discovers that the murders are related...
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At the turn of the century, Denny O'Moore (Mickey Rooney), is en route from his New York City home to Texas to surprise his brother Patrick (Robert Stack) with a visit to his silver mine across the Mexico border. Denny meets Texas Ranger Joe Waldner (Robert Preston), who suspects that Patrick is involved with the notorious Mexican bandit El Tigre. Denny and Waldner are captured by El Tigre's henchmen but escape. Denny appeals to Carmel Alvarado (Wanda...
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Hoppy and his pal Lucky head to South America to look after a herd of cattle sold by Cassidy's boss to an Argentine rancher. Villain Ralph Merritt wants to get his mitts on that cattle, and he's not above hiring the scum of the earth to do his bidding. Fortunately, Hoppy, Lucky and their new Latin American buddy Don Fernando make short work of the bad guys in an outsized barroom brawl.
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Señor José Valdez, a wealthy Argentinian cattle...
16) Sitting Bull
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Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by General Custer to react with violence resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Major Robert Parrish, a friend of the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed but is court-martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. After the battle, Parrish, aware of a new Army attack plan, leads the Sioux to safety in the North but is court-martialed again. This time he is stripped of his rank and sentenced...
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In a Western American town, Fuzzy, tired of running from the law, decides to settle down. However, when he realizes the town is under the control of a corrupt individual, he calls in his outlaw friends to help restore order and justice.
1941 United States Western film. Set against the backdrop of the Wild West, the film delves into the life of an outlaw-turned-homesteader and his quest for justice in a town riddled with corruption.
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Three cowboys are traveling through the Wild West when they stumble upon a gang of outlaws and a dead body. The cowboys are mistaken for members of the gang and are pursued relentlessly by a determined posse to be brought to justice.
1966 American Western film starring Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Harry Dean Stanton, and directed by Monte Hellman. Nicholson also wrote and co-produced the film.
Cowboys Vern, Wes, and Otis...
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An outcast Confederate soldier redeems himself by defending a woman against bandits willing to kill for her goldmine claim.
After a long fight with Chato's murderous gang of bandits in the dusty Texan-Mexican border, Lisa, the wife of the unfortunate gold-miner, Paul Martin, escapes in search of help. As the defenseless woman heads to the nearest town, before long, the disgraced former Confederate officer, Joe Collins, agrees to lend her a hand,...
20) Boot Hill
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Honey Fisher has become a powerful man in this small Western town that has grown up around gold-prospecting fields. Fisher and his gang have managed, through swindling, murder, and terror, to gain leases on the important gold-yielding land in the area.
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