The Last Posse (1953), Wild Rovers (1971), The Revengers (1972), Bad Lands (1939), Westward Ho (1935), Lightning Jack (1994), The Broken Land (1962), Gun Street (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Posse movies.
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: Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, friend, rancher, son, sheriff, boss, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict (William Holden) is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.—Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: rancher, outlaw, convict, gripping, moving, thrilling, wild west ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy Sweet, Bob Mulford, Curley Tom, Eaton, Garth and an old prospector named Cluff. Apache Jack leads them into Indian country where they come across an oasis in a gully wash. They not only find water but also a natural of vein of silver. Sheriff Cummings prevents any of them from returning to town to file a mining claim. The next morning, Eaton is missing and all of the horses are gone. Then Cluff is killed in an ambush. The posse is trapped by an unseen enemy.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, prospector, killer, cowboy, american indian, frontiersman, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw gangs. Meanwhile, John is ever on the lookout for the gang that murdered his parents.—Jeff Hole <jeffhole@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, brother, outlaw, love interest, vigilante, confident, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: outlaw, sidekick, prostitute, sheriff, vigilante, native american, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt Sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the Sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder, and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: sheriff, waitress, prisoner, young man, lawman, love interest, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Marked for death are Dr. Dean Knudtson, his wife Janice, formerly married to the killer, and Jeff Baxley, on whose testimony the man was originally sent to prison. Sheriff Charles Morton and deputy Sam Freed head a posse tracking down the killer in the desert. The man is found dead of the wounds inflicted by a prison guard trying to prevent his escape. The sheriff resigns his job and heads west with Joan.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, fugitive, sheriff, ex-wife, doctor, witness, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young William Bonney inspires the faith and friendship of Pat Garrett, despite Bonney's violent past. Garrett believes that Billy can make a better life for himself, a sentiment shared by rancher John Tunstall, who befriends Billy and gives him a job. Billy falls in love with Tunstall's niece, Nita, but this outrages Tunstall's foreman, Bob Ollinger, who exposes Billy's past as outlaw Billy the Kid. When Billy's new friend, John Tunstall, is murdered, he goes on a rampage of revenge, and Pat Garrett, now a lawman, is forced to go after his young friend.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: ranch hand, sheriff, rancher, niece, foreman, pat garrett, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: widow, sister-in-law, sheriff, preacher, banker, native american, gritty ...
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