Hour of the Gun (1967), El Dorado (1967), High Plains Drifter (1973), Last Train From Gun Hill (1959), Hombre (1967), Bend of the River (1952), Desperadoes of Dodge City (1948), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Classic Western movies.
Storyline: Wyatt Earp (James Garner) deputizes Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) and forms a posse to hunt Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) and his gang.
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, revenge, law and justice, based on true events, american west, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman is on the bottle and a top gunfighter is heading his way to help Jason. Along with young Mississippi, handy with a knife and now armed with a diabolical shotgun, Cole returns to help.
Plot Keywords: western, sheriff, action, adventure, drama, vengeance, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Stranger (Clint Eastwood) rides into in the dusty mining town of Lago, where the townspeople are living in the shadow of a dark secret. After a shoot-out leaves the town's hired-gun protectors dead, the town's leaders petition the Stranger to stay and protect them from three ruthless outlaws who are soon to be released from prison. The three have their sights set on returning to Lago to wreak havoc and take care of some unfinished business. A series of events soon has the townspeople questioning whether siding with the Stranger was a wise idea, as they quickly learn the price that they each must pay for his services. As the outlaws make their way back into Lago, they discover that the town is not exactly as they had left it, and waiting in the shadows is the Stranger, ready to expose the town's secret and serve up his own brand of justice.
Plot Keywords: western, clint eastwood, revenge, violence, supernatural elements, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over. Morgan is determined to capture Rick and take him away by the 9.00 train; but he is trapped in the town alone, with Belden and all his men now looking to kill him.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: western, drama, crime, revenge, justice, suspense, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John 'Hombre' Russell is a white man raised by the Apaches on an Indian reservation and later by a white man in town. As an adult he prefers to live on the reservation. He is informed that he has inherited a lodging-house in the town. He goes to the town and decides to trade the place for a herd. He has to go to another city. The only stagecoach is one being hired for a special trip paid by Faver and his wife Audra. As there are several seats others join the stagecoach making seven very different passengers in all. During the journey they are robbed. With the leadership of John Russell they escape with little water and the money that the bandits want. They are pursued by the bandits. As they try to evade the bandits they reveal their true nature in a life threatening situation.
Plot Keywords: western, paul newman, american film, drama, survival, revenge, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and Cole to rescue and deliver food and supplies being held in Portland by corrupt officials. On the trip back to the settlement, up river and over a mountain, Cole engineers a mutiny to divert the supplies to a gold mining camp for a handsome profit.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, 1950s, redemption, betrayal, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the stagecoach has it. When Rocky and the four get trapped in a shack by the outlaw gang, he learns that one of the four is the gang leader. Rocky has to learn his identity and retrieve the message—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, revenge, bounty hunter, justice, outlaw, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John, the eldest, is a well-known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get their ranch back from the town's gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game, after which he was murdered. Troubles come, however, just because they carry the Elder name.
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, family drama, gunfight, sheriff, texas, brothers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the American Civil War, outlaw Jesse James forms a gang comprised of himself, his brother Frank James, Cole Younger and his two brothers, Jim Younger and Bob Younger as well as Ed Miller and his brother Clell Miller. The gang is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger. The gang starts by robbing small banks and stagecoaches in the Midwest and in their home state of Missouri. Later, the gang targets bigger prizes, such as larger banks and trains. This criminal activity attracts the attention of the railroad company owners who hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to capture the gang. When the gang kills a few Pinkerton detectives, a war of sorts starts between the Pinkerton Agency and the James-Younger gang. Sometimes caught in the middle of it are innocent civilians. In 1876, the gang is running out of banks to rob in Missouri and decides to raid a supposedly fat bank, far up North, in the state of Minnesota. But the Pinkerton Detective Agency is setting up a trap there.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, historical adaptation, family bonds, violence, revenge, american frontier ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. His mother barely notices. Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'little Mary' to the old cook, whose words, "Cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better." gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, and witnessing unpunished crimes...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: western, 19th century, american frontier, coming of age, adventure, violence, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, rescue, revenge, desert, gunfight, bounty hunter, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, drama, outlaw, pursuit, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: western, biography, history, crime, action, drama, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, gunfight, lone hero, bounty hunter, law and justice, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having eluded a posse, a wanted man rescues a woman and her young son from a Comanche attack. He then escorts them to the presumed safety of a U.S. Cavalry fort. Trouble develops along the way when the woman comes to believe that her rescuer was responsible for the recent death of her husband.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, revenge, lone hero, desert, manhunt, suspense ...
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