Manon of the Spring (1986), The Big Country (1958), Shane (1953), Yellow Sky (1948), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Northwest Passage (1940), Unconquered (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Land Wars movies.
Storyline: In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and the cattlemen have come to a very uneasy truce. The delicate peace is inadvertantly shattered when a group of new homesteaders lay down their stakes on the cattlemen's side of town, upsetting the delicate balance that had existed thus far and sparking an all-out war between the farmers, who want the land tamed and property lines drawn, and the cowboys, who want the prairies to be open for their cattle to roam.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: marshal, entertainer, cattleman, merchant, sheriff, daughter, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, circus owner, circus manager, circus performer, madcap, amusing, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Jones family, about to prove claim to prime Montana land, is raided by renegade Indians in league with villainous neighbor McCord, who gets most of the stolen cattle. Two survivors are helped by college-educated chief's son Colorados. Now Sierra Nevada Jones must fight for her land against legal technicalities and assorted villains. Can she gain the help of McCord's hired gun, Farrell?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: tough woman, rancher, government official, native american, father, rival, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cattle ranchers "Chalk" Reynolds and Walt Payne have driven most of the small ranchers from the government range in the Ruby Hills country, and are fighting between them to get sole control. Reynold's chief gunman is Frank Emmett and Payne's hired gun is Jack Voyle, and both are described as ruthless killers. Into the valley rides Ross Haney who has just bought the water rights to the range, a legal step that Reynolds and Payne over-looked. Haney soon learns that a third faction is also out to control the valley; the Double V Ranch, owned by Robert Vernon and his sister Sherry. The latter falls in love with Haney, and is by his side when he is engaged in a showdown with all the other factions.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: rancher, foreman, businessman, gunslinger, marshal, beautiful woman, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Brandon returns from prison having been framed for robbery. At the time of the robbery his partner supposedly committed suicide. Jim's first break in proving his innocence comes when he finds the fatal bullet does not match the weapon that was used.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, best friend, girlfriend, rancher, sheriff, villain, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: artist, land baron, settler, native american chief, fiancée, rousing, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his. With the aid of his sweetheart, Dorthea, and the mission padres, Don Ricardo succeeds.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: man, fiancée, childhood friend, cousin, priest, overseer, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After their master dies, servants Thomas (Brendan Dillon) and Devon (Kate Manx) and their children become homesteaders on a coastal island. But when Thomas is murdered by villainous settlers hoping to claim the land for themselves, Devon must raise the kids -- and fight off more attacks -- by herself. Luckily, however, she gets help from Jacob (James Mason), a mysterious shipwrecked stranger, and Nicholas (Rip Torn), a kindly sailor and slave ship escapee.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, child, settler, blackbeard, sailor, spectacular ...
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