Silent Western Watchlist
by KasparM | created - 02 Jan 2014 | updated - 03 Jan 2014 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Great Train Robbery (1904)
8 min | Short, Drama, Western
Unauthorized shot-for-shot remake by the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film of the same name. Two bandits break into a telegraph station to board and rob a train before being shot down in a standalone final.
Director: Siegmund Lubin | Star: Emily Lowry
Votes: 554
2. The Little Train Robbery (1905)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Action, Crime
In this parody of 1903's _Great Train Robbery, The (1903)_, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 344
3. The Life of a Cowboy (1906)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Western
A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 62
4. The Bank Robbery (1908)
19 min | Western, Crime, Short
A gang of outlaws are planning a bank robbery. After making preparations, they commit the robbery and make their escape amidst a sharp exchange of bullets. They return to their meeting ... See full summary »
Director: William Tilghman | Stars: Al J. Jennings, Frank Canton, Quanah Parker, Heck Thomas
Votes: 93
5. The Redman's View (1909)
14 min | Short, Western
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Owen Moore, Lottie Pickford, Kate Bruce, Charles Craig
Votes: 418
6. The Mended Lute (1909)
11 min | Western, Short
Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Florence Lawrence, Frank Powell, Owen Moore, James Kirkwood
Votes: 305
7. His Last Game (1909)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Sport, Western
Bill Going is the star pitcher for his local Choctaw baseball team. Gamblers from Jimtown try to persuade him to throw the game and he shoots and kills them. He is given a reprieve to pitch the last game of the year.
Votes: 101
8. In Old California (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama, History
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 83
Film being apparently restored.
9. Pendaison à Jefferson City (1910)
7 min | Short, Western
Three friends on their way to deliver a payroll stop for a few drinks. Two of them decide to stay for a while, but the third sets out to deliver the payroll by himself. When he never shows ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Gaston Modot, Berthe Dagmar, Joaquim Renez
Votes: 55
10. That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
17 min | Western, Short
Charlie Lee, the poor chink, is the hero of this Biograph story. Having located at Golden Gulch as a laundryman, his old father is about to take his leave for his home in the Flowery ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Anthony O'Sullivan, Gertrude Robinson, Charles West, Dell Henderson
Votes: 71
in bonus of collector dvd of Hollywood Chinese
11. The Sergeant (1910)
16 min | Short, Western
A story laid in the Great Yosemite Valley during the eighties. Col. Westley has an only daughter who is the one softening influence in his rugged nature. She is fond of taking morning rides... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Iva Shepard, Tom Santschi, Frank Clark
Votes: 61
12. Fighting Blood (1911)
18 min | Short, Action, Western
An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Florence La Badie
Votes: 169
13. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Western
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Joseph Graybill, Francis J. Grandon
Votes: 289
14. Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy (1911)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Clément Mégé, Joë Hamman, Ernest Bourbon, Édouard Grisollet
Votes: 44
15. The Heart of an Indian Maid (1911)
12 min | Short, Western
A party of trappers is attacked by Indians and all escape but one, who is badly wounded. The Indians, however, start in pursuit of the fleeing trappers and the wounded man is found by ... See full summary »
Star: Pearl White
Votes: 42
16. Le feu à la prairie (1911)
14 min | Short, Western
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Gaston Modot, Berthe Dagmar
Votes: 42
17. The Squaw's Love (1911)
17 min | Drama, Short, Western
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mabel Normand, Alfred Paget, Dark Cloud, Claire McDowell
Votes: 86
18. Cent dollars mort ou vif (1911)
13 min | Short, Western
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Gaston Modot, Berthe Dagmar, Bredow
Votes: 50
19. Friends (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Western, Romance
The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey
Votes: 313
20. The Invaders (1912)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short, Western
The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The Army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints,... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Ann Little, Ray Myers
Votes: 334
21. Custer's Last Fight (1912)
30 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, William Eagle Shirt, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 92
22. The Heart of an Indian (1912)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Western
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Francis Ford, Ann Little, J. Barney Sherry, Art Acord
Votes: 107
23. The Railway of Death (1912)
17 min | Short, Western
When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which involves a thrilling episode on a train.
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Max Dhartigny, Ernest Bourbon, Berthe Dagmar
Votes: 68
24. Coeur-Ardent (1912)
13 min | Short, Western
An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the requisite bride price. This is an Indian love story shot on location in the Camargues.
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Berthe Dagmar, Gaston Modot
Votes: 56
25. The Ball Player and the Bandit (1912)
TV-G | 12 min | Short, Drama, Romance
An Easterner wins his battles in the West by using his fists.
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Helen Case, Joe King, Shorty Hamilton
Votes: 93
26. At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy, Western
The mining community of Bear Track Gulch must adapt its ways when it receives its first female visitor.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William West, Herbert Prior, George Lessey, Bigelow Cooper
Votes: 100
27. The Squaw Man (1914)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.
Directors: Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Mrs. A.W. Filson
Votes: 1,045 | Gross: $0.53M
28. The Virginian (1914)
Passed | 55 min | Western
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Jack W. Johnston, Sydney Deane, William Elmer
Votes: 251
29. The Spoilers (1914)
110 min | Drama, Western
The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton
Votes: 104
30. Salomy Jane (1914)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Western
The story opens with the arrival in Hangtown of Madison Clay and his daughter, Salomy Jane, who have emigrated all the way from Kentucky. Straightway the young men and bachelors of the camp... See full summary »
Directors: Lucius Henderson, William Nigh | Stars: Beatriz Michelena, House Peters, William Pike, Clara Beyers
Votes: 75
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31. By the Sun's Rays (1914)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Action, Drama
A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon
Votes: 290
32. Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minnie Devereaux, Minta Durfee, Josef Swickard
Votes: 69
33. Broncho Billy and the Greaser (1914)
15 min | Western, Short
Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Lee Willard, Marguerite Clayton, True Boardman
Votes: 72
34. In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
48 min | Western
Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
Directors: Colin Campbell, Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, Wheeler Oakman, Red Wing
Votes: 38
35. The Last of the Line (1914)
20 min | Short, Drama, Western
Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, ... See full summary »
Directors: Jay Hunt, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Joe Goodboy, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Stanely Bigham
Votes: 149
36. Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Allan Sears, Walter Long, Alfred Paget
Votes: 205
37. The Ruse (1915)
28 min | Western, Short
"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
Directors: William H. Clifford, William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Clara Williams, John Davidson, Fanny Midgley
Votes: 36
38. Broncho Billy's Sentence (1915)
17 min | Western, Short
A robber on the run from the law hides out in a house with a young girl and her grandfather, and treats them shabbily. He is later shot and badly wounded, but is rescued and cared for by an... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Virginia True Boardman, Ernest Van Pelt, Carl Stockdale
Votes: 59
39. Bad Buck of Santa Ynez (1915)
20 min | Short, Western
An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a snake, the outlaw risks his life by riding into town to get a doctor.
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Bob Kortman, Fanny Midgley, Thelma Salter
Votes: 56
40. The Pitch o' Chance (1915)
25 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Rocky bets on "everything, anything and nothing at all". On one occasion he wins a high bet including the saloon bully's gal, thanks to a cheat played by a girl competitor who wants the man... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Helene Rosson, Jack Richardson, Lizette Thorne
Votes: 74
41. Knight of the Trail (1915)
24 min | Short, Western
Jim Treen, a road agent, is engaged to Molly Stewart, who has no notion of his secret profession. When she discovers Jim's hidden treasure cache, she breaks their engagement. Though he ... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Leona Hutton, Frank Borzage, Fritz the Horse
Votes: 90
42. The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
"Draw" Egan, a notorious bandit of New Mexico, has come to the end of his tether. His gang has been dispersed, many slain, and more in jail, and there is a reward of $1,000 offered for Egan... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, Louise Glaum
Votes: 212
43. The Half-Breed (1916)
73 min | Western
An outcast named Lo Dorman encounters a young woman lost in the woods. He defends her from danger in the forest and from Sheriff Dunn.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson
Votes: 223
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44. His Bitter Pill (1916)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Hibbard | Stars: Mack Swain, Louella Maxam, Ella Haines, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 200
45. The Pilgrim (1916)
28 min | Short, Western
A wandering cowboy is hired by a ranch owner. When the other cowboys show the newcomer their refusal he turns to his donkey pal and his usual loneliness. Then his boss'daughter comes home ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Ann Little, Jack Richardson, Dick La Reno
Votes: 85
46. Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Western
Hal, the rich and good-for-nothing son of a rich man, is thrown out by his father after another night out. He ends up in the West and living with a gold digger. He'll help him with his daughter and they all will become fond of each other.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Jack Farrell, Ann Little, Dick La Reno
Votes: 75
47. The Silent Man (1917)
61 min | Western
A gold prospector strikes it rich, but the crooks who run a frontier town take it away from him. He determines to get it back and clean up the town.
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Vola Vale, Robert McKim, Dorcas Matthews
Votes: 115
48. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Not Rated | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 861 | Gross: $0.42M
49. Straight Shooting (1917)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell, Molly Malone
Votes: 718
50. Bucking Broadway (1917)
53 min | Western
A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells, Vester Pegg
Votes: 675
51. A Modern Musketeer (1917)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
A restless young man travels west, encountering adventure, romance, and danger.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Kathleen Kirkham, Eugene Ormonde
Votes: 349
52. The Narrow Trail (1917)
68 min | Drama, Western
Ice Harding, leader of a band of outlaws, covets the pinto leader of a band of wild horses, and after a long chase, ropes and breaks him. Ice and "The King" become fast friends and when the... See full summary »
Directors: William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Sylvia Breamer, Milton Ross, Bob Kortman
Votes: 87
53. '49-'17 (1917)
Unrated | 61 min | Drama, Western
A retired judge comes West to restore a ghost town.
Director: Ruth Ann Baldwin | Stars: Joseph W. Girard, Leo Pierson, William Dyer, Mattie Witting
Votes: 363
54. Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
Not Rated | 8 min | Comedy, Short, Western
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell
Votes: 341
55. Scarlet Days (1919)
77 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster, Clarine Seymour
Votes: 477
56. By Indian Post (1919)
20 min | Short, Western
Jode McWilliams, the foreman of Circle O, is in love with Peg, the daughter of Pa Owens, the owner of the ranch. The trouble is that daddy won't allow! Which does not stop Jode from wanting... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: Pete Morrison, Duke R. Lee, Magda Lane, Edward Burns
Votes: 186
57. Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
Passed | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 956
58. Six Feet Four (1919)
Not Rated | 70 min | Western
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4. When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy again. However, he discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: William Russell, Vola Vale, Charles K. French, Harvey Clark
Votes: 44
59. The Son-of-a-Gun (1919)
65 min | Western
A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.
Directors: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Jess Robbins | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Joy Lewis, Fred Church, Frank Whitson
Votes: 46
60. A Debtor to the Law (1919)
Crime, Western
The plot concentrates on the robbery of the Stroud Bank and the subsequent failed escape. On the way out of the town Starr was badly wounded by a teenager Paul Curry who, having witnessed the robbery, shot him in the leg from the riffle.
Stars: Henry Starr, Paul Curry, Patrick Sylvester McGeeney, William Hackett
Votes: 21
with real life bandit Henry Starr
61. An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Passed | 23 min | Comedy, Short, Family
Blase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the 'wild west ' by his father.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, J. Ray Avery
Votes: 1,683
62. Just Pals (1920)
Not Rated | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Small-town tramp befriends runaway boy.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson, Georgie Stone, Duke R. Lee
Votes: 501
63. Sand (1920)
Passed | 50 min | Crime, Western
Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by Margaret, the girl he loves, Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Mary Thurman, G. Raymond Nye, Patricia Palmer
Votes: 74
64. Drag Harlan (1920)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Romance, Western
William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Jackie Saunders, Arthur Millett, G. Raymond Nye
Votes: 20
On amazon. Directed by J. Edgard Douglas with William Farnum
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