Dogs in westerns, the movies.
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1. North Star (1925)
Passed | 50 min | Drama
Melodrama about a man who heads into the Northwest after he mistakenily believes he has killed another man and is followed there by his sister.
Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Strongheart the Dog, Virginia Lee Corbin, Stuart Holmes, Ken Maynard
Votes: 38
2. Shadows of the North (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Western
Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war, leaving Pancake to run the mine. During Ben's absence three claim jumpers take ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: William Desmond, Virginia Brown Faire, Fred Kohler, William Welsh
3. Brawn of the North (1922)
80 min | Action, Drama, Family
Marion Wells travels to Alaska with her dog Brawn to visit her brother Lester and her fiance Howard Burton. Unfortunately, the two men get into a fight and Burton kills Lester. Brawn saves ... See full summary »
Directors: Jane Murfin, Laurence Trimble | Stars: Strongheart the Dog, Irene Rich, Lee Shumway, Joseph Barrell
4. The Lone Defender (1930)
Passed | 217 min | Family, Western
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe, Josef Swickard
Votes: 106
Rin Tin Tin. 1918-1932, 13.
9 western credits, 1922-1931.
45 total credits, 1922-1931.
5. A Hero of the Big Snows (1926)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Rin-Tin-Tin is saved from the beatings of a trapper by Ed Nolan, a shiftless trapper himself, and 'Rinty" follows Nolan home to his cabin but refuses to enter. Nolan takes him to the home ... See full summary »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Alice Calhoun, Don Alvarado, Leo Willis
Votes: 33
6. On the Border (1930)
Passed | 46 min | Drama, Family, Western
Farrell is taking advantage of the proximity of the rancho of Don Jose to the Mexican border by smuggling Chinese across the line into the United States. Dave, a border patrol officer ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Armida, John Litel, Philo McCullough
Votes: 22
7. Courage of the North (1935)
Approved | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sergeant Bruce Morton, in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is informed by White Feather, an Indian fur-trapper, that most of the local fur trappers have been systematically robbed.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: John Preston, Dynamite the Horse, Captain King of Dogs, William Desmond
Votes: 32
8. Thunderbolt (1935)
Approved | 55 min | Western
A pair of crooked deputies steal a gold shipment, murder a young boy's father and pin the blame on a cowboy. The murdered man's son and his dog set out to prove the cowboy's innocence.
Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Lobo the Marvel Dog, Kane Richmond, Bobby Nelson, Fay McKenzie
9. Vengeance of Rannah (1936)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Insurance Agent Ted Sanders has been called in to investigate a robbery and murder. A deputy also arrives to investigate. But unknown to Ted, the Deputy is a fake and actually part of the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Bob Custer, John Elliott, Victoria Vinton
Votes: 60
Rin Tin Tin Jr.. 1931-.
8 westerns, 1934-1939.
14 total credits, 1932-1939.
10. The Test (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western
A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Grant Withers, Grace Ford, Monte Blue
Votes: 78
11. Skull and Crown (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Regis Toomey, Jack Mulhall, Molly O'Day
Votes: 112
Rin Tin Tin Jr.
8 western credits
12. Law of the Wild (1934)
Approved | 225 min | Action, Crime, Western
Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. ... See full summary »
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Ben Turpin, Bob Custer
Votes: 99
13. The Painted Hills (1951)
G | 68 min | Drama, Family, Western
An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Pal, Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray
Votes: 1,255
14. Ferocious Pal (1934)
55 min | Western
A stray German shepherd, a runaway teenage boy, and a runaway teenage girl end up at her uncle's place in Oregon, where an epidemic of sheep rustling is under way.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Kazan the Wonder Dog, Gene Toler, Ruth Sullivan, Robert Seiter
Votes: 22
15. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954–1959)
30 min | Family, Western
Rusty was orphaned in an Indian raid. He and his dog Rin Tin Tin were adopted by the troops at Fort Apache in Arizona, and helped establish law and order in and around Mesa Grande.
Stars: Lee Aaker, James Brown, Rin Tin Tin II, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 857
Rin Tin Tin II
161 western credits, 1954-1959.
16. Flaming Fury (1926)
50 min | Drama
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ranger the Dog, Charles Delaney, Betty May, Boris Karloff
17. Melody Trail (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Wade Boteler
Votes: 127
Buck.
4 westerns, 35-39.
18. Where the North Begins (1923)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the ... See full summary »
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Claire Adams, Fred Huntley, Walter McGrail
Votes: 135 | Gross: $0.86M
19. Call of the Klondike (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Kirby Grant, Chinook, Anne Gwynne, Lynne Roberts
Votes: 57
Chinook
9 western credits
20. God's Country (1946)
Approved | 64 min | Western
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Robert Lowery), kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Helen Gilbert... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Robert Lowery, Helen Gilbert, William Farnum, Buster Keaton
Votes: 50
21. Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
80 min | Comedy, Western
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson, Fritzi Ridgeway
Votes: 37
22. The Adventures of Champion (1955–1956)
30 min | Western
The exploits of Champion, a wild stallion who befriends twelve year-old Ricky North in the American Southwest in the 1880's. Although Ricky, who lived on his Uncle Sandy's ranch, had a ... See full summary »
Stars: Champion, Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Blaze
Votes: 177
23. The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for $500 and selling half of it to a detective for $200, Bob Harvey (Richard Arlen) sets off with his new ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall, Stanley Fields
Votes: 33
Buck the Dog. Third in cast list.
24. King's Creek Law (1923)
Western
Texas Ranger Tom Hardy is sent to the hard-boiled town of King City to track down a murderer. The trail leads him into contact with Saul Jameson, an unreconstructed southerner who fancies ... See full summary »
Directors: Leo D. Maloney, Bob Williamson | Stars: Leo D. Maloney, Bullet the Dog, Josephine Hill, Horace B. Carpenter
25. Red Hot Leather (1926)
50 min | Western
Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Scout the Horse, Bunk the Dog, Ena Gregory
26. Trailing the Killer (1932)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Thriller, Western
While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar (Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka a... See full summary »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Caesar the Dog, Francis McDonald, Heinie Conklin, Joe De La Cruz
Votes: 45
27. Timber Terrors (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Drama, Western
Be forewarned that "Captain (King of Dogs)" and "Dynamite (The Wonder Horse)" are billed above all of the cast except John Preston (who?), which means RCMP Sergeant Bruce Morton (John ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: John Preston, Dynamite the Horse, Captain King of Dogs, Myrla Bratton
Votes: 28
28. The Wolf Hunters (1949)
70 min | Drama, Western
After four fur trappers have been slain and their furs stolen, Corporal Rod Webb of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police sets out for their village. En route he and his dog Chinook come upon ... See full summary »
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Kirby Grant, Jan Clayton, Edward Norris, Helen Parrish
Votes: 49
29.
Casey Jones (1957–1958)
Episode:
Night Mail
(1957)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Casey's employer, the Midwest & Central Railroad faces bankruptcy unless it gets a U.S. mail contract for the St. Louis to Ft. Worth run. The catch is that the company that gets the ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Alan Hale Jr., Bobby Clark, Mary Lawrence, Eddy Waller
Votes: 28
30. North to Alaska (1960)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian
Votes: 8,491
31. The Valiant Hombre (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Western
The Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) find a dog, Daisy (played by Daisy), grieving for its lost master. Cisco senses a plot when he later learns that the missing man, ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, John Litel, Barbara Billingsley
Votes: 35
Daisy.
4 westerns, 44-51.
32. Teeth (1924)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Dan Angus, train baggage master, mistreats two dogs in his care, throwing the small one off while the big one attacks him. Dan is fired and gets off at a small town, steals from the ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Duke the Dog, Lucy Fox
Votes: 28
33. Call the Mesquiteers (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
Smugglers hijack the Mesquiteers truck, but the police catch up, kill the smugglers, and then try to arrest the Mesquiteers as part of the gang. They escape but now have to prove their innocence while being hunted as wanted men.
Director: John English | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lynne Roberts
Votes: 126
34. Wild Waters (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Action, Western
A young man and his trusty dog go up against a gang of crooks that are building a dam out of shoddy materials, which could collapse and flood the entire valley.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Flash the Dog, David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger, William Desmond
Votes: 8
Flash the Dog.
4 westerns, 34-38.
10 total credits, 25-38.
Call the Mesquiteers (1938). 1938.
35. Marked Men (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Bill, a wrongly imprisoned doctor, escapes jail and finds refuge in an Arizona town, but his freedom is threatened when the gangster who framed him forces Bill to guide his criminal crew across the desert.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell, John Dilson, Paul Bryar
Votes: 204
36. The Last Sunset (1961)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 3,731 | Gross: $6.54M
37. Outlaw's Highway (1934)
Passed | 61 min | Western
A lawman, his dog and his trusty white stallion fight a gang of outlaws.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Kazan the Wonder Dog, Jack King, Cactus the White Stallion, Philo McCullough
Votes: 29
38. The Proud Rebel (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Western
A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son's shock-induced muteness and the Northerners' hatred.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd
Votes: 2,291
39. The Silent Hero (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her ... See full summary »
Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Napoleon the Dog, Robert Frazer, Edna Murphy, Ernest Hilliard
Votes: 21
40.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North: Part 1
(1964)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961) re-edited into a two-part television presentation. ) Andre Dupas finds an orphan cub and with his pup, Nikki, paddles down the river. The canoe overturns and the animals are washed away. They have to cooperate to survive.
Directors: Jack Couffer, Don Haldane | Stars: Jean Coutu, Émile Genest, Uriel Luft, Robert Rivard
Votes: 13
41. Western Vengeance (1924)
50 min | Action, Western
Claim-jumpers Santag (Jim Corey) and Dick Sterling (Mack V. Wright) are after the gold mine belonging to Jack Caldwell (Franklyn Farnum), and his kid sister Helen (Doreen Turner). ... See full summary »
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Franklyn Farnum, Marie Walcamp, Doreen Turner, Jim Corey
Pete the Dog.
93 credits, 24-35.
42. Tracked (1928)
50 min | Western
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Ranger the Dog, Sam Nelson, Caryl Lincoln, Albert J. Smith
Votes: 18
43. Thunderbolt's Tracks (1927)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Western
After WW I, two marines visit the family of one of their comrades in New Mexico. Learning that after the family bought a ranch the water supply was cut off, they take up the fight. To ... See full summary »
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Jack Perrin, Starlight the Horse, Rex the Dog, Pauline Curley
44. Hondo (1953)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate
Votes: 12,424
Sam. According to the trivia, Sam is Pal, the dog of "The Painted Hills".
45. Code of the Northwest (1926)
40 min | Short, Drama, Western
Pvt. Frank Stafford of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to bring in his brother, Donald, who is wanted for murder and wife desertion. The trail leads toward the cabin of Sandy McKenna, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank S. Mattison | Stars: Sandow the Dog, Richard Lang, Tom London, Frank Austin
46. Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Silver King the Dog, Barbara Weeks, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 11
47. Hittin' the Trail (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
This was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey's favorite plot (only the 3rd time he had trotted it out of the stable, but he got six more films out of it in later years) in which a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Earl Dwire, White Flash, Jerry Bergh
Votes: 131
48. Old Yeller (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Jeff York
Votes: 15,180 | Gross: $21.91M
Spike
15 western credits
49. White Fang (1925)
60 min | Adventure, Family, Western
Joe Holland, the superintendent of a gold mine, saves his invalid friend, Weadon Scott, from a pack of wolves. Frank Wilde, an executive engaged to Holland's daughter, Mollie, buys White ... See full summary »
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Strongheart the Dog, Theodore von Eltz, Ruth Dwyer, Matthew Betz
Votes: 43
50. The Phantom of the Forest (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Eddie Phillips works for his father, an oilman searching for deposits in the north woods. A puppy intended for Eddie falls out of the truck that's transporting him and is stranded in the ... See full summary »
Director: Henry McCarty | Stars: Thunder the Dog, Betty Francisco, Eddie Phillips, Jim Mason
Votes: 26
Thunder the Dog.
2 westerns.
Silent Pal (1925). 1925.
51. Rolling Caravans (1938)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
The strip is being opened to settlers and as everyone heads for the starting line, Thad and his outlaw gang are ready. Learning Rankin has a treasure map, Thad steals it. When Breezy ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods, Lafe McKee
Votes: 17
Tuffy.
1930-
6 credits, 36-38.
5 westerns, 37-38.
52. Bad Man from Bodie (1925)
Short, Western
Director: Charles R. Seeling | Stars: Wolfheart the Dog, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 10
53. Last of the Dogmen (1995)
PG | 118 min | Adventure, Western
A Montana bounty hunter and an anthropologist discover a tribe of Native Americans living in a settlement isolated from the rest of the world.
Director: Tab Murphy | Stars: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis
Votes: 5,974 | Gross: $7.40M
54. Sweetgrass (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey ... See full summary »
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Votes: 1,106 | Gross: $0.21M
Great Pyrenees and collies hearding sheep up the mountain to their summer pasture.
55. Snow Dog (1950)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Western
Louis, a fur trapper in Northwestern Canada, sees a killer wolf while hunting, then returns to the La Fontaine Trading Post and tells his sister Andrée about it. Later, Canadian Mountie Rod... See full synopsis »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Kirby Grant, Chinook, Elena Verdugo, Rick Vallin
Votes: 49
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