Ride the High Country (1962), The Cowboys (1972), Bend of the River (1952), Road to Utopia (1945), How the West Was Won (1962), The Hanging Tree (1959), North to Alaska (1960), White Fang (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gold Rush movies.
Storyline: Jack McCall is a Southerner, but joins the Union Army in the Civil War. When he is tricked into giving out the location of headquarters, he's tried as a spy and sentenced to death. He makes good his escape, but Hickok and Bat kill his parents to seize his plantation and money. Trying to prove his innocence, he locates Spargo after the war, who's paid off by Hickok and Bat, so that Jack is once again jailed and again escapes. He still has hopes of clearing his name, but Bat and Hickok now are after gold in the Dakotas.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: death of father, gambling, u.s. marshal, flashback, newspaper headline, racial stereotype, damsel in distress ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's "assistants". One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named "Hudson Saanteek", manages to escape his hired thugs, and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills, and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: action hero, stabbed in the back, snow, shot in the forehead, shot in the back, sheriff, shack ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: royal canadian mounted police, gold rush, canada, chainsaw, based on cartoon, breaking the fourth wall, character name as title ...
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