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1. Man of Conquest (1939)
Passed | 105 min | History, War, Western
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine, Edward Ellis
Votes: 194
2. The Falcon Out West (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Falcon and the police travel west to a ranch in Texas to try and solve the mystery of the murder by venom from a rattlesnake, in a New York City nightclub, of a Rich cattle baron.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay
Votes: 728
3. Silly Billies (1936)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Western
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the Old West, trying to set up their dental practice in a deserted town whose inhabitants have been targeted by bad guys and marauding Indians.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Harry Woods
Votes: 92
4. Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western
Susannah is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Seiter, Walter Lang | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Martin Good Rider
Votes: 997
5. Wild West Days (1937)
Approved | 268 min | Western
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford, and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy, in their ... See full summary »
Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, George Shelley, Lynn Gilbert, Frank Yaconelli
Votes: 99
6. For the Service (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Western
Buck heads Captain Murphy's band of scouts. They are after Morgan and his gang who are killing and burning out the ranchers. The Captain's son arrives to join the scouts and it's not long ... See full summary »
Director: Buck Jones | Stars: Buck Jones, Phillip Trent, Edward Keane, Fred Kohler
7. Custer's Last Stand (I) (1936)
Passed | 328 min | War, Western
When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rex Lease, Lona Andre, William Farnum, Ruth Mix
Votes: 251
8. The Country Beyond (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly, Robert Kent, Alan Hale
Votes: 16
9. Unconquered (1947)
Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff
Votes: 2,889
10. Navajo Kid (1945)
Passed | 59 min | Western
The adopted son of an Indian agent investigates the murder of his adoptive father.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Bob Steele, Syd Saylor, Ed Cassidy, Caren Marsh
Votes: 99
11. The Fighting Renegade (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Western
A government agent falsely accused of murdering a professor takes the identity of "The Puma", a Mexican vigilante leader, to hide his real identity and find the actual killers.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Joyce Bryant, Ben Corbett, Ted Adams
Votes: 93
12. The Glory Trail (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Western
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, James Bush, Frank Melton
Votes: 28
13. Lawless Plainsmen (1942)
Approved | 59 min | Western
When Steve and Lucky bring a herd to market, Lucky gets into trouble and hides on an outgoing wagon train. Steve finds him and is about to bring him back when they are attacked and the ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Luana Walters, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 34
14. Romance of the West (1946)
Passed | 58 min | Western
When a local Indian tribe is accused of breaking a peace treaty, Indian Agent Eddie Dean gets to the bottom of things.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Eddie Dean, Emmett Lynn, Joan Barton, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 76
15. Badman's Territory (1946)
Passed | 97 min | Western
Sheriff Mark Rowley and his brother John find themselves in an annexed area of Indian Territory which is home to notorious outlaws like Jesse James and Sam Bass.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ann Richards, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Ray Collins
Votes: 854 | Gross: $4.00M
16. Renegade Girl (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Western
Ann Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Ann Savage, Alan Curtis, Edward Brophy, Russell Wade
Votes: 213
17. Hudson's Bay (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton
Votes: 497
18. Typhoon (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Romance
Having been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 145
19. Murder on the Yukon (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
Two Mounties find the body of a man who has just been murdered. They follow the trail to a cabin, where they are attacked by the murderer's gang.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: James Newill, Polly Ann Young, Dave O'Brien, Al St. John
Votes: 59
20. The Law West of Tombstone (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Western
Notoriuos liar Bill Barker, having been banished westward by the law, talks the townspeople of Martinez into making him Mayor and Judge. Here he must deal with the outlaw the Tonto Kid and ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Harry Carey, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Jean Rouverol
Votes: 259
21. The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)
Approved | Western
A short plot summary finds Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott), the U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, opposing the Phantom Raiders, a gang of renegades raiding the cattle drives over the ... See full summary »
Directors: Sam Nelson, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Bill Elliott, Monte Blue, Carole Wayne, Frankie Darro
Votes: 56
22. Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western
A supernatural western! The Three Mesquiteers accompany an archeological expedition to a lost Indian city of gold called Lukachuke.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Mary Russell
Votes: 240
23. The Bold Caballero (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Director: Wells Root | Stars: Robert Livingston, Heather Angel, Sig Ruman, Ian Wolfe
Votes: 249
24. Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene Autry enters the Cavalry, where he attracts the Colonel's daughter. When a jealous Lieutenant conspires to send Gene into an ambush, Gene loses a man and his group is ousted from the army.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Monte Blue
Votes: 216
25. The Singing Vagabond (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Director: Carl Pierson | Stars: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 81
26. Lady in a Jam (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 321
27. My Gal Sal (1942)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
At the end of the 19th century, the young Indiana boy Paul Dresser left his hometown for a long adventure that would eventually place him at the pinnacle of American music as a songwriter.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton, Carole Landis
Votes: 883
28. Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Western
Wellington Holmes, a timid and very shy horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stagecoach is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he coincidentally knocks out three of them earning ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld
Votes: 136
29. Silver Stallion (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western
The Kid and his pals are horse thieves wanted by the law. As he takes a horse from Jan Walton she makes him promise to bring it back. This makes him go straight and when his pals steal ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Finney | Stars: David Sharpe, LeRoy Mason, Chief Thundercloud, Thornton Edwards
Votes: 44
30. Pirates on Horseback (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Western
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by the swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart
Votes: 194
31. Daredevils of the West (1943)
Passed | 196 min | Western
Director: John English | Stars: Allan Lane, Kay Aldridge, Eddie Acuff, William Haade
Votes: 63
32. The Law Rides Again (1943)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
US government agents Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, aka "The Trail Blazers", make a deal with captured outlaw Duke Dillon to catch crooked Indian agent John Hampton, who has been using his ... See full summary »
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Jack La Rue, Betty Miles
Votes: 133
33. The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley
Votes: 3,914
34. Outlaw Trail (1944)
Passed | 54 min | Western
The Trail Blazers go to the aid of ranchers who are being oppressed by a town boss and his henchmen.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Chief Thundercloud, Gene Alsace
Votes: 82
35. Black Arrow (1944)
Approved | 270 min | Western
Buck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos chief. Black Arrow, presumed ... See full summary »
Directors: Lew Landers, B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Mark Roberts, Adele Jergens, Robert B. Williams, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 53
36. Nob Hill (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. When he begins romancing a wealthy socialite it looks like he may have his entry into high society. The... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner
Votes: 332
37. The Phantom Rider (1946)
Approved | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Western
A reservation's new doctor masquerades as the legendary Indian god, "the Phantom Rider", to catch gang looting the reservation, unaware the leader is a phony Indian Agent.
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Robert Kent, Peggy Stewart, LeRoy Mason, George J. Lewis
Votes: 55
38. Blazing Across the Pecos (1948)
Passed | 55 min | Western
The Durango Kid and Marshal Smiley Burnette complicate a corrupt mayor and his henchman's efforts to take over a town.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Patricia Barry, Paul Campbell, Charles C. Wilson
Votes: 121
39. The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Western
In this Western comedy, the King Soap Company is doing poorly, and the banker says that to receive a bank loan, they must have orders, so daughter Mabel heads west as a traveling saleswoman... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Joan Davis, Andy Devine, Adele Jergens, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 66
40. Mrs. Mike (1949)
Approved | 99 min | Drama
While visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O'Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. They fall in love, marry, and go north to Mike's new posting. Together, they face and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan, Angela Clarke
Votes: 147
41. The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville
Votes: 484
42. Saddle Aces (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Western
A convicted murderer and a safe cracker pull off a daring train escape while handcuffed together. They later show up at a ranch where they help a young woman being swindled by a large cattle company.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rex Bell, Ruth Mix, Buzz Barton, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 34
43. Fighting Pioneers (1935)
Approved | 54 min | Western
Driving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rex Bell, Ruth Mix, Buzz Barton, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 33
44. Wagon Trail (1935)
Passed | 55 min | Western
The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Harry Carey, Gertrude Messinger, Edward Norris, Roger Williams
Votes: 89
45. The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
Director: George S. Kaufman | Stars: William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 708
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