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1. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,490
2. McLintock! (1963)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Western
Wealthy rancher G. W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers
Votes: 16,608
3. Arrowhead (1953)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, Texas and he dreams of aiding in bringing peace to the region, despite opposition from both the Army and the Apaches.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith
Votes: 1,614
4. White Feather (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget
Votes: 1,173
5. Rocky Mountain (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 1,316
6. The White Buffalo (1977)
PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Western
At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak
Votes: 5,221
7. Chisum (1970)
G | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson
Votes: 10,912 | Gross: $13.08M
8. True Women (1997)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
Stars: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Michael York
Votes: 2,506
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: 2,888
10. The Mountain Men (1980)
R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht
Votes: 2,606
11. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,092
12. Canadian Pacific (1949)
Passed | 95 min | Western
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish, Victor Jory
Votes: 923
13. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 509
14. Sitting Bull (1954)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Western
A cavalry officer sympathetic to the wronged Sioux fixes a meeting between Chief Sitting Bull and President Grant but a dishonest Indian Agent and a hateful General Custer test the Sioux's patience, threatening to derail the peace-talks.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, John Litel
Votes: 896 | Gross: $1.50M
15. Mohawk (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Western
In 1700s New York, a Boston artist working in the remote Fort Alden is torn between his love for 2 women and thrown into the middle of a Mohawk-Iroquois-American war.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Lori Nelson
Votes: 629
16. Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,107
17. Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The masked hero leads a fighting force to fight a villian who plots the conquest of The Republic of Mexico.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova
Votes: 464
18. Santa Fe Passage (1955)
Passed | 91 min | Western
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
Director: William Witney | Stars: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens
Votes: 527
19. Rose Marie (1954)
G | 104 min | Musical, Romance, Western
Wilderness girl Rose Marie has adventures in life and love when Mountie Mike Malone takes her out of the wild.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr
Votes: 522
20. Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert
Votes: 443
21. Jack McCall, Desperado (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Western
A Southerner fighting for the North is unjustly accused of treason and escapes to find the witness who could clear his name, but he also seeks the two Yankee soldiers who killed his parents.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: George Montgomery, Angela Stevens, Douglas Kennedy, James Seay
Votes: 245
22. Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Western
This biography of the famous Lakota Sioux war chief is told entirely from the Indian viewpoint.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, John Lund, Ray Danton
Votes: 692
23. Desert Gold (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Monte Blue, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo
Votes: 170
24. Go West, Young Lady (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Federal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete.'
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 397
25. Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Chane Weymer (Randolph Scott), an Arizona rancher goes after a gang that is trapping and catching wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures. He suspects Ward (Fred Kohler), of being ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Fred Kohler, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 62
26. Thunder Pass (1954)
76 min | Drama, Western
A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dane Clark, Dorothy Patrick, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr
Votes: 133
27. Fort Courageous (1965)
Approved | 72 min | Western
An ex-cavalry sergeant, being escorted to prison after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, finds himself leading the remnants of a unit that has been under Indian attack at a fort.... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Fred Beir, Don 'Red' Barry, Hanna Landy, Harry Lauter
Votes: 181
28. Indian Paint (1965)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Family, Western
Nishko is a chief's son in the Great Plains, before Europeans arrive. During his rite of passage, he's determined to tame a painted pony. He approaches manhood while his peaceful clan is ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Johnny Crawford, Jay Silverheels, Pat Hogan, George J. Lewis
Votes: 218
29. King of the Wild Horses (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In an attempt to steal thousands of horses from a Navajo tribe in Arizona, outlaw Clint Bolling pretends to be a government inspector assigned to weed out the tribe's diseased animals. ... See full synopsis »
Director: Earl Haley | Stars: Rex, Lady the Horse, Marquis the Horse, William Janney
30. Oklahoma Territory (1960)
Approved | 67 min | Western
A District Attorney tries an Indian chief for the murder of an Indian agent, but begins to believe that the chief is possibly being framed by powerful interests who want to start a war between the Indians and the locals.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia, Grant Richards
Votes: 223
31. Overland Mail (1942)
Approved | 279 min | Drama, Western
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Helen Parrish, Noah Beery Jr., Don Terry
Votes: 80
32. The Flaming Frontier (1926)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane
Votes: 29
33. The Wild Dakotas (1956)
Passed | 73 min | Western
When Indian land is threatened by a take-over by white settlers, a frontiersman tries to prevent an Indian uprising.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Bill Williams, Coleen Gray, Jim Davis, John Litel
Votes: 70
34. Massacre Canyon (1954)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Cavalrymen disguised as civilians must drive a wagon train loaded with army rifles through dangerous Apache territory to Fort Collins.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Audrey Totter, Douglas Kennedy, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 158
35. I Killed Geronimo (1950)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western
In the Arizona territory,Army Captain Jeff Packard (James Ellison) is on the trail of Apache Chief Geronimo (Chief Thundercloud) and the white renegades who is selling rifles to the tribe. ... See full summary »
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: James Ellison, Virginia Herrick, Chief Thundercloud, Smith Ballew
Votes: 16
36. The Riding Renegade (1928)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Western
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Lafe McKee, Bob Fleming
37. Californy er Bust (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A narrator tells the story of how the Western pioneers (all being Goofy lookalikes) are travelling in covered wagons across the frontier. They run into some Indians (who are also Goofy ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Kinney, David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Cactus Mack
Votes: 394
38. The Rainbow Trail (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage (1931).
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Minna Gombell, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 32
39. 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
40. The Prairie (1947)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Religious fanatic Ishmael Bush is determined to find a land where the rules could be of his own making. So he sets out from Kentucky with his wife and five sons to go into the un-surveyed ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Lenore Aubert, Alan Baxter, Russ Vincent, John Mitchum
Votes: 39
41. The Lawless Eighties (1957)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Western
An outlaw gang tries to grab the land of the Sioux Indians, but a pair of cowboys seeks to thwart their plans. Based on Alson Jesse Simth's biography "Brother Van."
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Buster Crabbe, John Smith, Marilyn Saris, Ted de Corsia
Votes: 57
42. Code of the Mounted (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A thug robs and kills a fur trapper. He is caught and locked up by the Mounties, but is soon broken out by his partner. As the Mounties investigate, they discover that the two are part of a ruthless crime ring run by a female gangster.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Kermit Maynard, Robert Warwick, Jim Thorpe, Lillian Miles
Votes: 64
43. He Was Called the Holy Ghost (1971)
97 min | Drama, Western
The owner of a ranch commissioned Holy Ghost to carry out the robbery of a cargo of gold transported by a train. Holy Ghost hires some men, and makes the criminal enterprise that generates ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Vassili Karis, Mimmo Palmara, Margaret Rose Keil, Jack Betts
Votes: 42
44. Wild Beauty (1946)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Drama, Western
A pretty school teacher (Lois Collier)---make that a very pretty school teacher---, a doctor (Don Porter) who disapproves of the white man's attitude toward Indians, and a young Indian boy ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Don Porter, Lois Collier, Jacqueline deWit, Robert Wilcox
Votes: 8
45. Cody of the Pony Express (1950)
Approved | 270 min | Western
An Eastern syndicate, plotting to gain control of the western frontier, hires a gang led by Mort Black to drive out the settlers. Army undercover agent Lt. Jim Archer and young Pony Express... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett
Votes: 41
46. Saddlemates (1941)
Passed | 56 min | Western
When a strip of land along the Red River is declared in Indian Territory instead of Texas, the Rangers leave and the Army moves in. Now ex-rangers the Mesquiteers stay on as scouts. The new... See full summary »
Director: Lester Orlebeck | Stars: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Gale Storm
Votes: 64
47. Sons of the Plains (1938)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Separated at infancy by an Indian raiding party, one twin is raised as an Indian, the other as white. They meet years later and discover they are brothers. Together they work to foil the ... See full summary »
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Russell Simpson, John Ridgely
48. White Renegade (1931)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Western
On a caravan to California, Dr. Holt Ezra punishes his wife Hetty for flirting with young men. The caravan stops in the town of Independence.
Director: Jack Irwin | Stars: Tom Santschi, Blanche Mehaffey, Philo McCullough, Reed Howes
Votes: 21
49.
Brave Eagle (1955–1956)
Episode:
Voice of the Serpent
(1955)
25 min | Western
Brave Eagle goes out looking for the long-lost son of an elderly Indian woman. He meets up with a bellicose Cree chief who is also looking for the young man.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Keith Larsen, Anthony Numkena, Bert Wheeler, Kim Winona