Station West (1948), Gold of the Seven Saints (1961), The Sheik (1921), Chuka (1967), Southwest Passage (1954), Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), Desert Sands (1955), Comanche Territory (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Desert Landscape movies.
Storyline: Dick Powell stars as Haven, an army undercover investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen. Travelling incognito, Haven arrives in a small frontier outpost, where saloon singer Charlie controls all illegal activities. After making short work of Charlie's burly henchman, Haven gets a job in her organization biding his time and gathering evidence against the gorgeous crime boss. Cast as a philosophical hotel keeper, Burl Ives is afforded the opportunity to sing a a ballad.—R. Alberts
Plot Keywords: film noir, western, 1940s, murder mystery, criminal syndicate, double cross, femme fatale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fur-trapper Shawn Garrett gets out of a horse-stealing charge in a small, frontier town by agreeing to buy the horse with a gold nugget. This nugget attracts the attention of a man named McCracken who, with his gang, secretly follows Garrett across the desert in the hope of finding the source of his gold. Garrett joins up with his partner, Jim Rainbolt, and together they manage to hold off McCracken's gang long enough to hide their gold before seeking refuge in the hacienda of a landowner named Gondora. Gondora soon finds out about the gold, however, and Rainbolt and Garrett now find themselves in a fight to save their gold and their lives as well.—dinky-4
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, gold, gold rush, desert, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) desperately desires fiesty British socialite Diana (Ayres), so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious desert tent-palace. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Only after being kidnapped by desert bandits does Diana realize how much she has grown to love Ahmed, who comes to her rescue in the nick of time.—E. Beck
Plot Keywords: silent film, romance, drama, adventure, desert, arabian, exotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort, a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers, try to come to terms with their pasts.
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, gunfight, revenge, desert, lone hero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Edward Beale is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west in this 3-D western. (An actual test once conducted in the Big Bend area of Texas.) Clint MacDoanld, a bank robber one jump ahead of a posse, joins the caravan by posing as a doctor. His sweetheart, Lilly, also comes along and signs on. There is a whole lot of footage of the grueling trek across the desert, but it begins to move when mule-skinner Matt Carroll becomes aware of MacDonald's true profession and he wants the gold from the bank robbery. The Apaches have shied away from attacking the train, because of their fear of the camels, but a camel dies and the jig is up as they lose their fear and here they come.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, action, drama, historical, war, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, historical drama, american frontier, father-son relationship, legacy, leadership, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Plot Keywords: war, adventure, romance, action, drama, historical, western ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Silver has been found on Comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the Indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the Indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.—Oliver Heidelbach
Plot Keywords: western, gold rush, romance, adventure, gunfight, black and white, classic hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Led by an incompetent Lieutenant, a troop of soldiers is on the Tomahawk Trail in Apache territory. When he lets the Indians steal their horses and gets slightly wounded in a skirmish, Sergeant McCoy takes over command. McCoy sucessfully gets them to the fort only to find all the soldiers have meen murdered by the Apaches. He prepares the troops for an attack knowing if they survive the Lieutenant plans to have him court marshaled.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, american film, 1950s, black and white, military, adventure, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, black and white, 1930s, gunfight, desert, adventure, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 10-year-old (Biana Tamimi) prepares to race an Arabian horse after it comes to her aid in the African desert.
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, horse, desert, friendship, courage, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gertrude Bell's life as an explorer, cartographer, and archaeologist for the British Empire.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, adventure, female protagonist, desert, british ...
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