Firecreek (1968), The Lost Patrol (1934), The River's Edge (1957), Prairie Moon (1938), Hit the Saddle (1937), Pioneer Justice (1947), Tension at Table Rock (1956), Sierra Sue (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sheriff's Office movies.
Storyline: New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: cab driver, gambler, villain, wife, brat, city slicker, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie Dean, under orders as a U.S. Land Office agent, is trying to prevent a range war from being started between homesteaders and ranchers when a caravan of the so-called 'Nesters', start to take over land acquired by the homesteaders by a government lease. Quirt Thayer, working both sides against the middle, has his gang join with the ranchers seeking revenge against the settlers for raids on the ranchers by Quirt's henchmen. Eddie uses his friendship with Mary King, daughter of the leading rancher, to pin the guilt on the correct culprits.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: rancher, daughter, homesteader, son, sidekick, u.s. marshal, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lucky Carson is riding through the snow-covered mountains when he sees Bat Moulton and his gang chasing Jim Thornton. Since it's none of his business Lucky hides behind a boulder to avoid being involved. (Unlike most B-western heroes, those played by Hoot Gibson often not only avoided trouble that wasn't theirs, they often avoided trouble when it was directed at them.) But Thornton has doubled back and pulls a gun on Lucky with the intent of stealing Lucky's untired horse. But the frightened horse rears,dashes over a cliff and takes Thornton with him. Lucky goes through Thornton's saddle bags, finds gold in them and realizes why Moulton's men were chasing the late departed Thornton. Hiding the bags at the foot of a mountain, Lucky (on Thornton's now-rested horse) rides on and comes across a Medicine Show ran by Doc Haliday. He hooks on as a sharpshooter and meets entertainer Ann Thornton, the dead man's niece. Moulton and his men ride up and inform Ann that they have taken possession of the Bonanza Mine that was owned jointly by Ann and her late uncle. Moulton also suspects Lucky of having the gold since he has found Thornton's body but no gold. Moulton goes to Sheriff Hodges and charges Lucky with the murder and robbery of Thornton. Lucky gets thrown in a cell with a drunk named Wheeler, who is the only lawyer in town and is assigned by the court to be Lucky's defender. During the trial, while Wheeler is sleeping off his hangover, Lucky manages to implicate Moulton and his men revealing that he saw them chasing Thornton. Wheeler wakes up and believing Lucky to be guilty --- Wheeler has never had an innocent client---takes Lucky to a back room during a recess and gives him the best and only advice gained in his years of lawyering... RUN. Lucky does. Meanwhile, the coroner breaks down Moulton's testimony, and the jury finds that Thornton's death was accidental. The Judge orders Moulton and his men to cease and desist with their activities at the Bonanza Mine, and goes to tell Lucky he has been cleared. He acts somewhat surprised to find that Lucky has departed the scene, although he shouldn't have been considering he left Wheeler and his client alone in a room with a window. (Any B-western that has a court with Milburn Morante as the judge, Charles King as a defense lawyer, Horace B. Carpenter as the prosecutor and buzzard-looking Nelson McDowell as the Coroner has to be cherished. ) Meanwhile, Moulton's gang is chasing Lucky, and Ann and the Sheriff go to the mine and find Jim Thornton's diary that reveals that Moulton had held Moulton prisoner after the gold had been discovered and extracted---but did allow Thornton to keep his diary entries up to date---and they conclude that ol' Uncle Jim had managed to escape and take the gold with him. The sheriff takes off after Moulton and sees Lucky. But Lucky also sees the sheriff and thinks he is the chasee since he didn't wait around to hear the jury's verdict. Lucky takes off and manages to get himself captured by Moulton and company and they truss him up in an ore car with intentions of giving him a ride over the cliff if he doesn't fess up about where the gold is hidden. It all works out.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: outlaw, niece, miner, lawyer, sheriff, cowboy, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The wanted outlaw Tom Mitchell has put away his guns and now works in Root's store. When Sheriff Lance is killed, Martha Lance gets Tom to take the job. He straps the guns on again but Brownlee arrives and reveals him to be a wanted man.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: shopkeeper, rancher, daughter, cattleman, sheriff, lawman, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lordsburg, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: deputy, entertainer, young man, outlaw, partner, sheriff, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick believes guns result in gun solutions to problems. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of bank robbers who have no problem with killing anyone in their way. When their paths cross Kilpatrick's attempt to negotiate results in the death of his family during the escape. Kilpatrick goes against everything he has stood for when he crosses into Mexico to chase Brand and his gang. He demonstrates some violent tendencies towards the criminals and anyone else he comes across in his hunt to kill the gang. His behavior is not very heroic. He is challenged by a Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.—jimthemoviefreak@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: sheriff, pacifist, wife, outlaw, mexican, police officer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Llano Kid is robbing stages but only taking money from Montana Slade's Cottonwood Mine. He then gives the money to those cheated by Slade. The Sheriff is after him and eventually obtains a picture and displays wanted posters and is soon after him.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: outlaw, daughter, sheriff, mine owner, hero, rousing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for her own family reasons.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: publisher, gambler, deputy, judge, rancher, beautiful woman, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shannon is running a modern rustling operation using an airplane to spot the cattle, short wave radio to alert the rustlers, and trucks to haul away the beef. When the aging Sheriff Doniphan is unable to bring them in, he is replaced by an eastern detective. But Doniphan's deputy Gene suspects Shannon and sets a trap to nab him and his gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, gene autry, cattle rustler, sheriff, pilot, spirited, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: rancher, father, brother, outlaw, sheriff, cowboy, engaging ...
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: The Kid takes a job on Beckett's ranch just as Beckett's long departed wife and son John return. The Kid makes enemies of Butch and Buzzard who join up with John. The three then rob Beckett and stab him with the Kid's knife. But Alice finds spur marks on her fathers body and goes looking for the matching spur.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: ranch hand, adopted daughter, brother, thug, father, sheriff, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One hundred fifty dead, and three hundred fifty missing in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Colorado, and that's only the beginning.
Plot Keywords: sheriff, deputy, government official, doctor, sister, scientist, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's daughter, who has come from back east, and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: foreman, daughter, sheriff, outlaw, native american, best friend, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While visiting his sister, Tommy Lee discovers a band of ruthless white supremacists is planning to shatter the peace of a small rural community. But what these thugs don't realize is that with Tommy, they're in for the fight of their lives. With the help of an honorable sheriff and a headstrong young teacher, Tommy battles back against the hateful group, waging war with everything he has to protect the town. Now, there's no turning back.
Plot Keywords: martial artist, sheriff, sister, schoolteacher, white supremacist, mother, raw ...
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