Blood on the Moon (1948), Call of the Canyon (1942), The Last Posse (1953), Roughshod (1949), In Old Cheyenne (1941), Shine on Harvest Moon (1938), Heart of the Rockies (1937), Cow Country (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cattle Rancher movies.
Storyline: When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders are being used, the two men draw apart to become sworn enemies.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cowboy, outlaw, homesteader, daughter, beautiful woman, cattle rancher, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cattle buyer McCoy has run up gambling debts. When Gene and the other ranchers are ready to sell their cattle, he undercuts his bosses price planning to pocket the profit. The ranchers then try to drive their cattle to another market but McCoy's men set off an explosion and a rancher is killed. Knowing McCoy listens to the horse race results, Gene sets up a phony radio broadcast hoping to trap him.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gene autry, cowboy, cattle baron, cattle rancher, radio producer, singer, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the anxiously awaited posse returns with neither prisoners nor the stolen money, we learn in flashback what happened. Having been cheated by Sampson Drune, a father and his two sons have robbed him and fled. A posse led by Drune took off after them and although unwanted, the town's drunken Sheriff joined them. The Sheriff's influence on Jeb, the adopted son of Drune, was the key to Jed later revealing who killed Drune, the robbers, and what happened to the money.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, drunk, cattle rancher, bandit, deputy, family member, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wrangler Clay Phillips and his younger brother Steve are taking horses to their ranch near Sonora when they come across four dance hall girls heading the same way with a wrecked buggy. One of the girls is taken away by a boyfriend who came after her. Clay takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns out one of the girls is the homesteaders' wayward daughter. As Clay already has an escaped killer and his two fellow convicts after him he is reluctant to have to take the remaining two girls on with him but they are set on getting to Sonora.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, younger brother, sheriff, ex-convict, friend, dance hall girl, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reporter Steve Blane arrives in Cheyenne looking for the famous outlaw Arapahoe Brown. But when Arapahoe saves his life, he learns that Sam Drummond is the real outlaw and his gang are impersonating Arapahoe and his men. With the hoax now exposed, Drummond and his men chase Blane to a ranch where he and a few others find themselves outnumbered and once again in need of Arapahoe's help.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: reporter, cattle rancher, settler, outlaw, dancer, thrilling, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The one time partnership between two men has turned into a full fledged range war. Roy is the son of one of the former partners, the heroine is daughter to the other. The film featured and debuted the then popular radio duo Lulubelle and Scotty.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: business owner, cattle rancher, roy rogers, love interest, cowgirl, daughter, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mesquiteers are supposedly losing cattle to a bear from the adjoining National park. But the culprits are the Dawson clan who kill the cattle and use Davey's pet bear to leave tracks. When Davey breaks his leg, they find a crutch mark along with the bear tracks and head after the Dawson's.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, cattle rustler, park ranger, partner, stepson, crafty, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1875, the collapse of the world beef market creates hardships for Texas cattle growers. In Garnet Basin, many cattlemen are forced to sell their cattle for low prices. Processed in rendering plants, they're only used for their hides, fats and oils, tallow for soap and fertilizers. Without sufficient funds, many ranchers face foreclosures on their lands. Greedy local banker Marvin Parker refuses to extend the mortgage payments or make any new loans to ranchers. He hopes to force the ranchers to sell their lands for cheap to him. In cahoots with Parker are Caddo Sledge, the owner of a cattle rendering plant and womanizing rancher Harry Odell. Odell is engaged to Linda Garnet, daughter of rancher Walt Garnet, but is secretly romancing Melba Sykes, daughter of Tim Sykes. Against the scheming trio of Parker, Sledge and Odell is Ben Anthony, former cattleman, who is the owner of the local freight and stagecoach line. A war of sorts ensues between Ben Anthony and the crooked trio. When the army announces an upcoming purchase of beef from the area, the cattlemen sense that a solution to their problem is near and that ranches, cattle businesses and lands soon could be saved. These news prompt the criminal trio of Parker, Sledge and Odell to intensify their campaign of intimidation and destruction, culminating in raids against Ben Anthony's freight line and murder of all those witnesses who could identify them as the culprits. The climax sees Ben Anthony in a gunfight against Sledge and Parker while a fugitive Odell is tracked by local rancher Fritz Warner.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: cowboy, cattle rancher, cattleman, fugitive, daughter, confident, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Federal agent Smitty assists Butch Cooper, leader of a gang that robbed a train in which the loot was never recovered, in making an escape and accompanies him to the Utah badlands. Parker, leader of a gang of cattle rustlers, recognizes Butch. The latter takes Smitty to the spot where the loot was buried, but it has disappeared. Butch suspects his former comrades of making off with the money. Smitty and Butch have acquired jobs on a nearby ranch and Cookie, a former gang member, is questioned about the missing money. Butch encounters two members of his old gang and they take him to Parker. Both suspect the other of having the money, but they finally conclude that Cookie either has it or knows where it is. They kidnap him and he confesses he dug up the money and it is in the safe at the ranch of Judge Carlton. Smitty comes in and, in the struggle that follows, is revealed as a federal agent working undercover. He is left guarded while Butch, Parker and the gang ride to Carlton's ranch.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: federal agent, gang leader, criminal, cattle rancher, henchman, thief, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 19th century, Zandy (Gene Hackman), a hard-boiled California rancher, takes a mail-order bride. But Zandy isn't especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can aid him in the daily struggles of country living. Hanna (Liv Ullmann), the bride, arrives by stagecoach from Minnesota, and immediately angers Zandy by being older than she had stated in her letters. She's also more stubborn than expected -- but this toughness might be just what Zandy needs in a wife.
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, mail-order bride, mother, father, brother, ranch hand, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following the Civil War, the state of Texas, needing money, sells land to a syndicate of northerners headed by Judd Hastings (Ray Teal). When Hastings demands the land, and the squatters refuses to vacate, the governor sends Mike McGann (Dennis Morgan) to settle the issues. Eventually, McGann gets the ranchers to move on to other areas with their cattle, which Hastings also covets. McGann also falls in love with Hastings' daughter, Marian (Amanda Blake).—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: governor, cattle rancher, cattleman, daughter, love interest, wealthy man, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sassy female cattle rancher, Cleo Borden (Mae West), wants nothing more than to sashay her way into the moneyed class.
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, aristocrat, husband, saloon girl, femme fatale, british man, cheeky ...
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