3:10 to Yuma (2007), Day of the Outlaw (1959), McLintock! (1963), How the West Was Won (1962), Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940), Blood on the Moon (1948), Mountain Rhythm (1939), Guns and Guitars (1936) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cattle Rancher movies.
Storyline: A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle. An arrogant, pitiless son (Robert Mitchum) and a rigid pharisaic mother side against a moral eldest son and and a defeated alcoholic father while the youngest son tries to lay low, hoping against hope to persuade his family to allow him to marry a girl he has brought to visit. The girl however draws venomous condemnation and the two elder brothers set out in the midst of a violent snowstorm on a dangerous mission to kill the deadly panther.—Jasha
Plot Keywords: 19th century, remake, based on novel, father in law daughter in law relationship, mother in law daughter in law relationship, american indian, title same as book ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When poisonous devil-weed infects the grazing lands of cattle country, misguided ranchers , including George Larrabee (Robert Homans), burn off every acre of the infected area-the wrong thing to do. The State Agricultural Commission sends inspector Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his pal Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) to look into the problem but they encounter strong opposition and are even mistaken for bank robbers when they are found in possession of cash from a crashed crop-duster airplane whose pilot, Jerry Willis (Eddie Dean), they were only trying to help. Against all the opposition, Gene eventually persuades the ranchers chemical spraying is the only way to rid the grazing land of the devil-weed while also romancing the rancher's daughter, Sue Larrabee (Fay McKenzie) and saving the cattle from a fiery stampede.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: chemical, radio, radio program, prairie, posse, poison, musician ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Clay Hardin is a San Antonio rancher who has been run off his land by cattle rustlers. There's a range war going on and Hardin is determined to get the man behind it all, Roy Stuart. Hardin has been hiding out in Mexico, biding his time and decides the time has come for him to return. He's managed to get hold of one of Stuart's tally books that clearly shows he was selling cattle that didn't belong to him. Stuart and his partner Legare will go to any lengths to stop Hardin before he can put the evidence before a court. Beautiful dance hall performer Jeanne Starr arrives in San Antonio under contract to Stuart and Legare but she is clearly smitten with the handsome Hardin. When the army is called away, Hardin and his supporters are left on their own to defend themselves.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: reprisal, vindication, retribution, post civil war, range war, musician, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, actor's name in tagline, sidekick, grindhouse film, resolvement, jail break, homesteader ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Don Anderson's marketing director for Mickey's fast food chain. He's the inventor of their bestselling hamburger, the Big One. Independent research has showm the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the main supplier of Mickey's, beef is efficient as it appears, and the production process is up to code. During his investigation, he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like It's portrayed. Don discovers what the mass production system involves, from the temp-workers like Amber, to the exploitation of irregular immigrants. It's not only the meat being is crushed in the machinery, but our society.
Plot Keywords: food, environmental issue, butcher, pickup truck, bar, harassment, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Fork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own.—kzmckeown
Plot Keywords: sleigh, wild west, old west, cowboy, letter, reading a letter, voice over letter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) is a fugitive who has been run out of town after being nearly lynched for the murder of a man he did not kill. He returns, bearing the physical and mental scars of his experience, determine to clear his name. The would-be-lynchers , fearing that Guthrie will exact some kind of revenge for their anti-social treatment to him, set out to get him before he gets them. Laurie Mastin (Donna Reed) is the pregnant girl he left behind who marries another man, and Chris Palmer (Diane Foster) is the girl Guthrie takes with him after the real killer has been identified and harshly dealt with.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: cattle ranch, cowboy, cow, framed for murder, murder, lynch mob, lynching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff Jorden of Gunlock (John Agar) is planning to hang Sam Hall (Richard Boone), who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam. The farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued, and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie Mason (Colleen Gray). But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the Sheriff's future brother-in-law.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, bartender, texas, 1880s, retribution, reprisal, vindication ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With the stage being held up regularly, the Mesquiteers decide an airplane would be better so they get the ranchers to sell their cattle and invest in the new airline. But when a gold shipment goes out, the stage line owner has his men hijack the plane. The pilot discharges the gas causing a forced landing and the Mesquiteers must now find the missing plane and recover the gold.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: anger, fistfight, ventriloquist dummy, cattle ranch, cattle rancher, resolvement, extortion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hayden is after the rancher's land. He lends them money and then to stop repayment, he has his henchmen rob the stage of the anxiously awaited money. But Billy and Fuzzy recover the letters before they are burned, and Billy, reading the letters, comes to believe the towns leading citizen Hayden is the culprit.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, texas, greed, treachery, stagecoach robbery, stagecoach driver, vindication ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight each other.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, 1880s, retribution, reprisal, law and order, lawlessness, bushwhacker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Gene's boss is murdered, the boss's daughter is seriously injured. To raise money for her operation, Gene and the ranch hands enter the new medium of television as singers. When they do well, the bank agrees to lend them the needed money. Martin, who is the murderer, is after the ranch. Now he has to make sure the daughter doesn't get the operation so he sends his henchmen out to wreck Gene's equipment.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, shootout, slang, cattle ranch, cattle rancher, grindhouse film, slapstick comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own, and refuses Stiles' $1000 offer for his land. Led by the murderous Ash, the hired guns of Stiles kill Clayborn and his wife but their young son John survives and joins his grandfather in Austin. As the boy grows into a man he learns the use of a law book as well as a six gun, intending to use both to bring Stiles to justice. As lawyer John Clay, he travels to the Cottonwood headquarters of Stiles, self-proclaimed King of the Pecos, and meets Hank Matthews and Josh Billings, two cattlemen thrown into poverty through the crooked dealings of Stiles. John serves a summons for Stiles to appear in court but the circuit judge is too frightened to face the might of Stiles. John sends Hank to round up other impoverished cattlemen, and they provide the judge with an armed escort to Cottonwood. The judge upholds the ranchers' pleas for use of water and grass, and Stiles sees most of his ill-gotten gains turned over to public domain for proper filing. Stiles convinces newcomers Eli Jackson and his daughter Belle that John is trying to cheat the ranchers and file claims for himself. He also plans an ambush for those riding through the canyon to file claims and he sends Ash and his gunmen to the hills, instructing them to shoot anyone without the white arm bands he has supplied to his own riders. John discovers the plot and has the ranchers to also wear white arm bands, ensuring their safe passage. With their claim successfully filed the ranchers plan a cattle drive to Abilene where the railroad is promising $20 a head. Stiles steals whatever cattle he can and moves his outlaws to Sweetwater, where he hopes to extort money for use of the water there from the trail drivers. When the drive reaches Sweetwater, John confronts Stiles, revealing that he is the son of the murdered Clayborn's and that Sweetwater rightfully belongs to him. Following a siege by John and the ranchers, Stiles tries to escape by buckboard, but when the wagon tips over he is crushed by the safe containing money he has stolen from others. John pursues Ash into the rocks, offering him a chance to draw first and then ills him. John leaves his gun and his quest for revenge at the site and turns his mind to Belle and his law career.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor's name in tagline, resolvement, remorse, land grab, judge, lawyer, safe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Curley Thompson purchases a ranch near the town of Douglas and is surprised to find that his inherited, happy-go-lucky foreman, Sam Hawkins, can't even ride a horse. Freight owner Hatch Bolton is boss of the town and is out to ruin the local ranchers in order to get their ranches and sell to a Chicago grain combine. After Sheriff Tom Gordon is ambushed, his brother Walter and Alice Rhodes join Curley in his fight against Bolton. A rancher is murdered and Bolton tries to frame Curley, but Gordon lets him out of jail. Curley learns that the murdered man had been trying to tell him that a pair of steer horns over the bar contain the evidence needed against Bolton.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, actor billed above the title, grindhouse film, 1880s, shootout, gunfire, frame up ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying that they are friends, Morgan wants to buy the ranch before Hardy forecloses, and Gil will sell, but Lopez shows up with all his men and holds them all captive. Lopez has his own law, carried out with a 44 - and he plans to settle everything according to his vision of life.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: based on play, paraplegic, police, rancher, ransom, uncle, unrequited love ...
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