Come and Get It (1936), The Harvey Girls (1946), Man of the West (1958), The Spoilers (1942), Hit the Saddle (1937), The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1969), California (1946), The Deadly Companions (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Saloon Girl movies.
Storyline: In 1880s Wisconsin, ambitious lumberjack Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) loves saloon girl Lotta (Frances Farmer) but spurns her and marries to advance his career. While Lotta marries his friend (Walter Brennan) and has a daughter, Barney becomes a lumber bigwig by ruthless deforestation. Years later, the late Lotta's daughter, also named Lotta and played by the same actress, becomes the object of affection of both Barney, hoping to recapture the love he lost, and his son, Richard (Joel McCrea).
Plot Keywords: lumberjack, boss, saloon girl, daughter, son, melodramatic, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travellers. When Susan and her bashful suitor find romance daunting, she joins the Harvey Girls instead. The saloon across the street with its alluring worldly-wise women offers them tough competition, fair and foul, and Susan catches the eye of the Ned Trent (John Hodiak), the distant but intense proprietor of the bar.—Michael Meigs <Michael.Meigs@dos.us-state.gov>
Plot Keywords: waitress, restaurant manager, saloon girl, saloon owner, cowboy, uplifting, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: outlaw, saloon girl, con artist, reformed criminal, uncle, thrilling, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Plot Keywords: miner, saloon girl, commissioner, judge, love interest, politician, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: saloon girl, gunslinger, rancher, swindler, sheriff, son, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order bride. When he and the town turn out for the woman's arrival at the train station, he is embarrassed when she never appears. The saddened giant plans to leave town. The townspeople recruit the new saloon-girl Sadie (Nanette Fabray) to pose as the bride-to-be so the residents will retain the services of the blacksmith. Jim Backus is the Sheriff who runs for Mayor. Wally Cox plays Mr. Bester, the henpecked husband of his harridan wife (Marge Champion). Mickey Rooney, Stubby Kaye, Iron Eyes Cody, and Jack Cassidy appeared in this western comedy.
Plot Keywords: blacksmith, saloon girl, sheriff, husband, wife, bounty hunter, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: deserter, poker player, prospector, saloon girl, irishman, landowner, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Civil War Yankee sergeant Yellowleg saves the cheater Turkey from hanging after a card game, and together with Turk's gunslinger buddy Billy Keplinger, they ride together to Gila City with the intention of heisting a bank. When other bandits rob a store, Yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer Kit Tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of Siringo in Apache country where her husband is buried. Yellowleg Enlists Billy and Turkey to escort Kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: outlaw, veteran, bank robber, saloon girl, son, gunslinger, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Civil War is over and the South has fallen, but Col. Jonas (Joseph Cotten) has a plan to revive the Confederacy. He raids a Union Army detail and walks away with valuable treasure that he intends to put to use raising another rebel army. Jonas needs to keep the treasure safe during shipment, so he places it in a coffin and forces saloon girl Claire (Norma Bengell) to play widow. Claire is unwilling to do her part, however, and puts herself in danger by opposing the dangerous Jonas.
Plot Keywords: colonel, son, outlaw, saloon girl, alcoholic, thief, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With his criminal days behind him, Jess Wade, a rugged horseman who used to ride with the dangerous outlaw, Vince Hackett, and his cut-throats, tries to distance himself from the murderous gang, and go straight. However, no one betrays Hackett. As a result, Vince decides to frame Wade for the theft of the Victory Gun: a powerful cannon of gold and silver that fired the last shot against Emperor Maximilian and freed all Mexico. Before long, Jess finds himself on the run from the Federales, bearing the hideous mark of a thief and hunted down like prey, as Hackett threatens to wipe the small town of Rio Seco off the face of the earth. Now, everyone thinks that Jess is guilty. Can he clear his name and save the town?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: gang member, hostess, old flame, saloon girl, coyote, suspenseful, arizona ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sassy female cattle rancher, Cleo Borden (Mae West), wants nothing more than to sashay her way into the moneyed class.
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, aristocrat, husband, saloon girl, femme fatale, british man, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wild West outpost Hard Times comes under attack by the Man From Bodie (Aldo Ray), a villain who conducts a one-man rape, murder and arson campaign that leaves few survivors. One of the stranger's victims, saloon dancer Molly (Janice Rule), blames pacifistic mayor Will Blue (Henry Fonda) for not stopping the rampage. Fearful the man may come back, she teaches adolescent orphan Jimmy Fee (Michael Shea) how to shoot a gun. When the stranger does return, the survivors must band together to stop him.
Plot Keywords: villain, mayor, saloon girl, orphan, villager, business owner, dark ...
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