The True Story of Jesse James (1957), Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Paper Moon (1973), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Waiting for Guffman (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Missouri movies.
Storyline: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: veteran, best friend, rival, singer, husband, lawyer, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling. Has he lost his prophetic gift? Hundreds of Saints immigrate to Missouri, where Governor Boggs raises an army - with Joshua at its head - to address the "Mormon Problem." When the militia receives orders to attack the Mormon settlement, only Joshua can save his family from the gathering mob.—Excel Entertainment Group
Plot Keywords: mormon, husband, wife, prophet, patriarch, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Plot Keywords: fur trapper, major, partner, native, chief, maiden, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to earn some travelling money, but gets entangled in a bad family situation: Lute's daughter is married to Sidney, a good-for-nothing drunk that frequents the rural equivalent of a whorehouse and beats his wife and is just waiting for Lute to kick the bucket to get his money. When Sidney and a local wacko preacher begin orchestrating a smear campaign against Calif, he finds it difficult to conceal his past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: drifter, beautiful woman, husband, preacher, prostitute, farmer, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the mid nineteenth century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western U.S. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: senator, settler, scout, native american, pregnant woman, boy, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreak havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: jesse james, sheriff, newspaper reporter, look-alike, gambler, love interest, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from Camp Benton, a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to to go to Santa Fe to join a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting $1miilion in Union gold to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap at Cow Creek in Missouri, but one of them builds friendships with the wagon train travelers and a widow and he continues to have doubts and misgivings..—Mister-UHF
Plot Keywords: soldier, bandit, widow, guide, brother-in-law, rousing, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta, they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James.
Plot Keywords: jesse james, frank james, detective, mother, railroad baron, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Grown friends (Colm Feore, Tony Goldwyn, Arliss Howard) reunite after years of separation to avoid overdue justice from misdeeds as teens.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, bully, priest, lawyer, police officer, business owner, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The trio of Belmet, Burch, and O'Meary are leading a wagon train west and Murdock is out to stop them. The settlers fight off his initial Indian attack and reach the mountains. With the wagon train vulnerable as it crosses a river, Murdock has the Indians make a final attack.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, scout, fur trapper, widow, son, older woman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Life could be pretty if there wasn't someone like Ernest P. Worrell on this planet. In this movie he helps to escape an evil troll out of his grave. That's the start of the end for the world. But... Ernest wouldn't be Ernest if he wasn't planning on saving all the people. This action doesn't make it any better. It's getting worse.—Evert Poppen
Plot Keywords: ernest p. worrell, elderly woman, dog, village elder, child, troll, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.—Rick Johnson <rickdjohnson@seanet.com>
Plot Keywords: outlaw, frenchwoman, orphan, trail guide, settler, native american, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway, and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: lawman, bank robber, outlaw, nephew, uncle, wyatt earp, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Plot here has Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arriving in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, and intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor, an arthritic despot, and his henchies, Sam Tobin and Cree, are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad. The plot nearly predates "The Great Train Robbery" in age, but the gritty execution, and well-acted performances, take it out of the norm, way out, in a couple of instances. Brassy Myrna Dell is on hand as Taylor's independent daughter, only slightly less meaner than her father, and the always welcome Dorothy Malone is the pretty school marm on the side of good. Ireland's passive outlook on life changes before the end.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: veteran, rancher, pacifist, publisher, settler, thug, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cooper is a Chicago journalist with post-concussion memory loss. His mother wants help moving Uncle Rollie, who's facing his own fading memory, into a care home. Cooper's boss tells him to take a few days, so Cooper drives home. Rollie doesn't want to move, and his salvation may be a rare baseball card of a 1908 Chicago Cub. Maybe they can sell it in Chicago for enough for Rollie to live at home with help. Cooper teams up with Charlotte, his recently-divorced high-school flame, and her son; they take Rollie to a memorabilia market. Rollie insists on keeping the card in his pocket, while more than one rascal wants to divest the old man of his treasure. Can the underdogs carry the day?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: editor, old flame, uncle, charming, endearing, emotional, chicago ...
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