His Girl Friday (1940), First Blood (1982), Open Range (2003), Hombre (1967), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Decision at Sundown (1957), Mule Train (1950), Pioneer Justice (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crooked Sheriff movies.
Storyline: Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brothers gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven, paying off three crooked town officials. Sent in to clean up the gang is Peterson Detective Agency operative James Barlow, who poses as an outlaw to gain the confidence of the officials and the thick-headed brothers. Complicating matters are Barlow's feelings for the Reno sister, Laura, who reluctantly keeps house for the boys out of family loyalty. Events heat up and rage surfaces as Barlow sets up the gang in a dawn train robbery.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: revisionist western, reference to rembrandt, burned to death, vigilante justice, crooked sheriff, corrupt politician, sibling rivalry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.
Plot Keywords: fighting, corruption, revenge, miscarriage of justice, land grab, government corruption, vigilante justice ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff. Gene learns of Hayworth's scheme and forces him to blow up his supply. But the Sheriff, not getting his cut, has Hayworth killed and then arrives to arrest Gene for the murder.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: damsel in distress, showdown, saloon, sacrifice, revolution, reformation, ranch foreman ...
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: murder, jealousy, 1880s, gunfight, dance, widow, saloon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gunfighter Ken Wayne gets hired at Thorton's sheep ranch to help fight the cattleman Moran and his gang. In Moran's gang is Whispering Carlyle, the man that raised Wayne and taught him how to shoot, and who has never been beaten on the draw. They both hope they will not have to face each other when the showdown comes.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, bushwhacker, ambush, greed, grief, stress, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow agent and are killing the nature of the region.
Plot Keywords: kentucky, aikido, redneck, hillbilly, directorial debut, small town, undercover ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Because town cut-throat Phil Randall wants the ranch owned by "Pop" McGee on which is located a valuable silver deposit, he frames McGee on a cattle rustling charge, and the old man is sentenced to hang. "Boots" Annie is determined to save him, so she sends for U.S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandu Hopkins, who rescue McGee from jail on the eve of his hanging. They then set out to gather the evidence to clear McGee and convict the real villains. Swede Larson and Sheriff Jed Hawkins, working with Randall, conspire to get the marshals out of the way and hire the Dawsons to do the job. The job backfires and the first Dawson is shot, but before the dies, he talks and enables Nevada and Sandy to make arrests and clear McGee of any charges.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, tension, retribution, reprisal, confrontation, bushwhacker, ambush ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Big Jim Johnson is a cattleman who wants to run all the settler's off the land. He has a number of hired guns including Johnny Dawson. Doctor Bill Dawson comes to town and wants to see the trouble stop, but all that he sees is Sullivan murdered and a Judge who is working for Johnson. Johnny is ordered to get rid of the Doc, who has decided to side with the settlers. Johnny as no choice but to side with his brother against Johnson, and that is a tall order.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: governor, gunfighter, gunfight, gunshot wound, handyman, henchman, homecoming ...
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