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Set against the backdrop of the impending Civil War, the film follows the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway. As workers progress, they face sabotage from Southern agents, leading to a tense showdown.
1953 American Classic Western Film
Set in the 1860s, just before the Civil War, the U.S. government commissions the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway to fasten California's ties to the Union. As the construction begins, Southern agents...
2) 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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A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife-and a mysterious treasure-to safety in San Francisco.
1969 American Western Adventure Action Drama Film
19th-century figure Joaquin Murietta is a formerly wealthy and respected California landowner. However, he has lost his land, his wife, and everything else he held dear. Embittered and questioning his previous faith in God and man, he joins a disparate group of men...
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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 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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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...
7) Apache Rose
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When oil is discovered on a Vegas ranch, Mexican gambler Carlos is in a deadly fight with his enemies for the oil, putting his girlfriend (Dale Evans) at risk as well as his female cousin whom the bad guys shoot in the arm. His girlfriend then masquerades as his wounded cousin, but cowboy hero and oil prospector, Roy Rogers catches wind of the plot and begins a rescue mission for Dale. Eventually, a tense gun battle and fist fight ensue to bring justice....
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El jinete Matt O'Brien recibe la misión de escoltar a la señorita Owens a un pueblo remoto. Pero cuando descubre una operación minera ilegal que contrabandea oro al otro lado de la frontera, su superior, el sargento Means, le ordena regresar.
Película estadounidense de 1945 del género western dirigida por Derwin Abrahams, filmada en Cinecolor en Lake Hemet, California. La película está protagonizada por Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury y cuenta con...
10) 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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Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to return.
1945 American contemporary US Western film directed by Derwin Abrahams, shot in Cinecolor at Lake Hemet, California. The film stars Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, and features Madge Bellamy in her final film appearance.
Mountie Matt O'Brien...
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Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-rides, out-smokes, out-shoots, and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb. One man who's her equal is Larry Blackie with whom she has an on-again/off-again relationship which is often argumentative and sometimes violent. Together they become involved in a robbery that goes awry. Belle must rescue Larry, and though he's grateful, he now wants...
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A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.
1930 American western film directed and written by John P. McCarthy that is a precursor to the singing cowboy genre. It stars Bob Steele in his second talkie film playing the lead role and singing, along with Rita Rey, Al St. John and Charles King as part of the film's cast.
The quiet border town of Santa María has been invaded by a band of...
16) Gatling Gun
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A group of cavalry soldiers tries to transport a powerful machine gun to their fort while being pursued by a tribe of Apache Indians who want to seize the weapon for themselves.
1971 American Western Film
The film begins with two cavalry deserters, Sneed and Elwood, who kill some of their comrades and steal a Gatling gun, a rapid-fire weapon that can wipe out hundreds of enemies. They plan to sell the gun to Chief Two Knife, the leader of the Apache...
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The retired town Marshal raised a fearless cowgirl daughter who takes on an outlaw gang with her own brand of western justice.
1953 Classic Western Film
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After his wife's death, Ben Dawson retires and forms a traveling medicine show. His infant daughter Laurie grows up to be a sharpshooter and performer in the show.
A banker named Anderson is behind a criminal scheme cheating ranchers out of their money. He hires notorious gunslinger...
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The period is the 1820's and the first wagon train leaves Independence heading west to Santa Fe. In order to maintain his power, the ruthless Official at Santa Fe must not let them arrive and he sends out his men to stop them. The wagon train then has to endure repeated attacks but is aided by a mysterious rider that shoots singing arrows and rides a painted stallion.
19) The Drifter
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A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a revenge plot, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder! A Hollywood, pre-code western drama set in French Canada with surpriing plot twists and tangled relationships that result in frontier justice.
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White Fang, a wolf-dog, teams up with a journalist and a young boy to prevent a villainous outlaw from stealing a gold mine in the Klondike region of Canada during the Gold Rush era.
Challenge to White Fang in Italian: Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca is a 1974 Italian Northern adventure film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is a sequel to Fulci's White Fang (1973), as part of a trend inspired by Call of the Wild (1972), which was a surprise hit in Italy. Two...
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