The Big Country (1958), The Field (1990), It's a Gift (1934), Colorado Territory (1949), Radiance (1998), The Gay Sisters (1942), Tanging Yaman (2000), Out West With the Hardys (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Land Ownership movies.
Storyline: Retired, wealthy sea Captain James McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless land war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.
Plot Keywords: captain, fiancée, family patriarch, land owner, rancher, son, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. But while no one in the village would dare bid against him, an American with deep pockets decides that he needs the field to build a highway. The Bull and his son decide to convince the American to give up bidding on the field, but things go horribly wrong.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: farmer, son, american, priest, idiot, somber, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong. Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends happily.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: grocer, wife, child, salesman, customer, land developer, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home with her father. Maybe time to get out. Unfortunately he also has a $10,000 reward on his head, dead or alive.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: cowboy, outlaw, sheriff, dance hall girl, native american, love interest, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the house for the first time in years. With time to talk, drink and fight, past hurts are revealed and family secrets come out.—bob the moo
Plot Keywords: aborigine, sister, opera singer, party girl, tense, spirited, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: soldier, father, daughter, sister, real estate developer, husband, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The decision of three siblings to sell their ailing mother's property causes deeply burried resentment to resurface as each of them also faces difficulties within their own families.
Plot Keywords: mother, grandmother, brother, sister, grandchild, melodramatic, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Judge James K. Hardy gets a letter from an old friend, Dora Northcote, explaining she and her husband Bill may lose their ranch because an adjacent rancher won't renew their water lease contract, he takes his family with him to alleviate their frustrations at home. His wife Emily is upset with spring cleaning, Andy has quarreled with his girlfriend, Polly Benedict, while Marian similarly quarreled with her boyfriend, Dennis Hunt. But at the ranch, new problems arise. Judge Hardy invests heavily in some adjacent property to help the Northcotes and may lose it all, Marian falls in love with the older foreman, Ray Holt, even though she's not ready for marriage, and Andy's showing off causes a prize horse of Ray's 8-year-old daughter, 'Jake', to break a leg. Things look bleak for the Hardys, but not for long.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: judge, wife, son, daughter, ranger, friend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Confederate soldier Matt Weaver returns to town after the Civil War, he finds that his home has been sold by town boss Sam Brewster. Brewster hires gunfighter Jules Gaspard d'Estaing to deal with Weaver, but d'Estaing's independent approach settles the town's problems in a very unorthodox manner.—<JeanneArmintrout@juno.com>
Plot Keywords: veteran, wife, outlaw, real estate developer, sheriff, thrilling, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage, they eventually find love.—cactusjump
Plot Keywords: rancher, veteran, nemesis, henchman, ranch hand, love interest, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeptha Marr has built the town of Pawnee, Kansas, and established a successful freight company. He sees his fortunes at risk due to the encroachment of a new railroad, spearheaded by Stephen Bent. Marr sends his right-hand man Gideon Skene to disrupt Bent's activities. Bent takes an unusual tack in dealing with Marr's opposition: he woos Marr's daughter Vinnie. But the unscrupulous forces of a third opposing figure, the ruthless Champ Clanton, create an uneasy alliance between Bent and Marr.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: surveyor, railroad engineer, business owner, assistant, daughter, investor, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to America to live again with the Yellow Hand. Finding them dispirited, he invigorates them as well as himself through self-imposed torture and other rituals. Once he convinces the clan to take direct action, Horse must devise a strategy to take the trappers' fort. The clan's women and boys take on special assignments to aid the assault to regain the sacred land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: lord, fur trapper, tribal leader, passionate, engaging, wild west, indian territory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: nurse, farmer, land owner, villager, campy, charming, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nellai and Tirunelveli-based Tamils go about their lives in Mumbai.
Plot Keywords: middle-aged man, middle-aged woman, gangster, leader, neighbor, ex-lover, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When ranch foreman Roy learns the new ranch owner Dorothy Bryant and her friends are arriving, he directs them to Gabby's rundown ranch. He figures they will be discouraged and return East. But the plan backfires when Dorothy, thinking her ranch worthless, sells the real ranch at a fraction of it's value.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: singer, rancher, coworker, cattleman, showgirl, sheriff, charming ...
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