On Top of Old Smoky (1953), Fort Dobbs (1958), The Proud Rebel (1958), Streets of Laredo (1949), Shadow Valley (1947), Goldtown Ghost Riders (1953), Bells of Rosarita (1945), Susanna Pass (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Horse Chase movies.
Storyline: Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken for Texas Rangers, help out.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, musical, country music, 1950s, sheriff, gunfight, black and white ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With his home burned to the ground, his wife killed, and his 10-year-old son, David, rendered mute after witnessing the traumatizing incident, the former Confederate soldier, John Chandler, arrives in a small, post-Civil War Illinois community. Eager to move on with his life, and desperate to find an effective treatment for the boy, instead, John finds himself drawn into a fight with the two sons of the ruthless and unscrupulous sheep-farmer, Harry Burleigh, facing a severe $30 fine or thirty days of incarceration. As the strong, kind, and compassionate rancher, Linnett Moore, decides to intervene for the sake of David, providing food and shelter, before long, John will find himself involved in a long-standing feud. Now, faced with a cruel dilemma, John must choose between running away or putting down roots. But, can a proud Rebel find peace and love in Yankee territory?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: western, family drama, historical drama, american civil war, father-son relationship, revenge, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, texas, gunfight, revenge, bounty hunter, showdown, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eddie and sidekick Soapy get involved in Gunnison's attempt to acquire the Jarvis ranch. Gunnison knows there is gold there and having already killed Mary Ann's father and uncle, he now tries to persuade her to leave. But Eddie gets her to stay and then starts his search for the killer.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, western, gunfight, revenge, bounty hunter, wilderness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Ed Wheeler shoots Jim Granby, Gene brings him in. But Wheeler says even if Granby dies he cannot he charged because he has already served 10 years for Granby's supposed murder. Then in flashback Wheeler relates how he and Granby founded Goldtown based on an exaggerated supply of gold and how when Granby blackmailed him, he thought he killed him and confessed to the murder.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, ghost, adventure, gold rush, small town, mystery, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, 1940s, black and white, musical, action, adventure, sheriff ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Game Warden Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) finds the remains of a slaughtered fawn which has been killed by two prison escapees, Bob Oliver (Robert Bice) and Del Roberts (Douglas Fowley.) He finds the sheriff of Susanna Pass is sick and has to take on the task of tracking them down himself, and gets more hindrance than help from ex-bullfighter Carlos Mendoza (Martin Garralaga) and his daughter Rita (Estelita Rodriguez.) Roy checks with local newspaper owner Martin Masters (Robert Emmett Keane)who professes ignorance of the whereabouts of the hunted men, though he is actually in cahoots with Roberts. The latter shows up after Roy leaves and tells Masters he has knifed Bob and left him for dead in the woods. The two have a scheme for dynamiting the lake and hatchery property for the oil underneath, and disposing of the property owner Russell Masters (Francis Ford), Martin's brother, and taking title of the property. At the inquest, after the murder of Russell, Martin is surprised to find that a recent will made by Russell, has left the property to his assistant Kay "Doc" Parker (Dale Evans.)—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, 1940s, action, adventure, sheriff, mystery, treasure hunt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rancher H. T. McKenzie is informed by veterinarian George Fredericks that his cattle are carriers of the hoof-and-mouth disease and must be destroyed. McKenzie hires Steve Paxton to kill the vet and steal his report. Roy Rogers and the Riders of the Purple Sage (Foy Willing, Darol Rice, George Bamby and Al Sloey) on their way to the Cheyenne Rodeo, detour through Sun Rock so that Roy can visit his old schoolteacher Dolly Paxton, Steve's stepmother. Roy becomes involved in the chase of Steve by Sheriff Holbrook. Ruth Shaw tells Roy that the school board has fired Dolly because of Steve, and that she has turned into a crushed and bitter woman still willing to defend her stepson. Roy discovers a McKenzie calf with symptoms of hoof-and-mouth which puts him on the trail of McKenzie.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, musical, villain, hero, 1940s, classic, action ...
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: western, low budget, fast-paced, adventure, classic hollywood, short film, b-western ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In August, 1863, Jim Dancer, searching for the killer of his brother, rides with Quantrell's raiders against Lawrence, Kansas. Yancey, one of the guerrillas most responsible for the band's bad name and reputation, accosts Evelyn Slocom. Yancey tell Dancer that Evelyn's father is the man who killed Dancer's brother, and Dancer takes revenge by killing him. But the man he is searching for is really the dead ma;s brother, Bert Slocum. When the Civil War ends in 1865, Dancer becomes a fugitive, hunted by Slocum and George Cummings, a detective for the Pleasanton Agency. Cummings finally catches Dancer, and it is only then that Dancer learns he killed the wrong man. While crossing the river on a makeshift ferry, Cummings is accidentally killed. When they are found, Dancer introduces himself as Cummings, saying the dead man was Jim Dancer. As Cummings, Dancer becomes a track-worker at Lanyard, Kansas. While the town is celebrating the arrival of the first cattle-drive herd from Texas, one of the cowboys menaces Evelyn Slocum, and Dancer stops him in a gun duel. The townsmen named Dancer Town Marshal in place of the cowardly Marshal. Persuaded by Dave Oldham and Florence Peel, both of whom know his true identity, Dancer accepts the job. But Bert Slocum is still after him, and the town's crooked justice-of-the-peace and district attorney aren't overly fond of the new Marshal and his law-and-order ways.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, gunfight, justice, bounty hunter, american frontier, duel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Roy runs a pipeline and near by is a rocket missile site. Camwell is after one of the missiles and to gain access to the site, steals oil from Roy's pipeline to sell. When the next missile is fired, Camwell is ready. He finds the missile, takes the data box, and replaces it with explosives set to go off just as the missile is returned to the site.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, sheriff, gunfight, gold rush, duel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ned Bannon comes across rustlers and is shot and left for dead, but is found in time by a wagon train heading for California. When he recovers he becomes suspicious of the two outsiders who are leading the train into a dead-end valley owned by his hostile half-brother. Braving his relative's animosity going back to the Civil War, Bannon makes contact to try and avoid a showdown.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, revenge, brotherhood, betrayal, wilderness, bounty hunter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sinclair has a government lease on range land that is about to expire. George Ringold wants the land and hires Roberts and his men. But they turn out to be a gang of killers and trouble soon arises.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, gunfight, outlaw, justice, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Southern veteran Ned Britt returns home to Fort Worth after the Civil War with his mentor, newspaperman Ben Garvin, along with his young apprentice, in hopes of building the town into a modern metropolis. However, the area is terrorized by the ruthless Gabe Clevenger and his gang of hired guns. Britt wonders whose side his old friend Blair Lunsford is on. Lunsford has used the unrest to buy up parcels of land on the cheap and hopes to profit from this speculation after the territory is cleaned up and ultimately become governor. Britt sees through his friend's ambition, and they are alternately allies and antagonists. Britt is also distracted by girl-next-door Flora Talbott and and seductive Amy Brooks.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, gunfight, american west, bounty hunter, duel, justice ...
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