Fort Apache (1948), Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Valdez Is Coming (1971), The Stalking Moon (1968), Gun Fury (1953), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), Convict Stage (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Arizona Territory movies.
Storyline: Deep into the territory of the great Apache chief, Cochise, the demoted Civil War general, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday, reports for duty as a commanding officer at the remote U.S. cavalry outpost known as Fort Apache, along with his daughter, Philadelphia. There, the arrogant commander will soon lock horns with the realistic and sensible second-in-command, Captain Kirby York, who, as an expert in the local Apaches, disagrees with Thursday who wants to make a name for himself in the Arizona frontier. In the end, is it wise to engage in battle when personal glory is all you seek?
Plot Keywords: military officer, soldier, daughter, native american, lieutenant colonel, racist, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lieutenant Tom Cantrell is sent to defend Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, a black cavalry soldier, on a charge of rape and murder. The story begins in a courtroom and it is told through flashbacks. This is a story of how a black soldier in the face of danger from the Indians can be so easily mistaken as a criminal.—Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>
Plot Keywords: defendant, prosecutor, judge, witness, wife, intense, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The town constable, Bob Valdez, is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed and almost killed by Tanner's henchmen. Valdez recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming."—Robbie Burns <burnodo@usit.net>
Plot Keywords: constable, rancher, henchman, gunslinger, widow, gutsy, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her "half-breed" son recently rescued from Indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: scout, native american, woman, warrior, son, intense, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: confederate soldier, rancher, outlaw, fiancée, american indian, mexican, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his last adventure in the Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), the former leader of the Seven and now a married U.S. Marshall, Chris Adams, declines his old friend Jim McKay's invitation to stop the outlaw De Toro and his marauding gang of bandits from attacking the Mexican border town of Magdalena. Filled with guilt, Chris decides to visit the town--now inhabited by widows--before the tough band's imminent return, having no other choice but to recruit a brand-new team of unlikely defenders. As always, the odds are against them. Can the new Magnificent Seven and the town's defenceless women put an end to De Toro's reign of terror?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: marshal, bounty hunter, bandit, wife, prisoner, journalist, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ben has been after the Sims brothers since they gunned down his sister. His wife, threatening to leave him, sees his chance to get her back and get his revenge when the brothers are captured and are to be transported to prison on the stage.—DrDOS
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, sister, outlaw, brother, mother, marshal, suspenseful ...
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