The Gold Rush (1925), Way Out West (1937), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), How the West Was Won (1962), North to Alaska (1960), Three Bad Men (1926), The Spoilers (1942), Paint Your Wagon (1969) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gold Rush movies.
Storyline: Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's "assistants". One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named "Hudson Saanteek", manages to escape his hired thugs, and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills, and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: prospector, hunter, girlfriend, sheriff, townsperson, native american, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: villain, pretty woman, love interest, prospector, inspector, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Swedish emigrants Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow), wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann) and family struggle in 1850 Minnesota.
Plot Keywords: farmer, immigrant, prospector, indian, emotional, tender, somber ...
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