The Imitation Game (2014), Europa Europa (1990), Waiting for Guffman (1996), Bend of the River (1952), How the West Was Won (1962), Northwest Passage (1940), Pacific Adventure (1947), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pioneer movies.
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: stranger, kiss, beating, male female relationship, gang of outlaws, cowboy shirt, cowboy hat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A delicious love story centered around a single father attempting raise his son despite the temptations of liquor and women. Lancaster shines as the stable and regal frontiersman fending off the seductions of Walter Matthau and lewd desires.
Plot Keywords: 1820s, family feud, based on novel, based on book, pearl, riverboat, tobacco ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers rescued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story of the legendary pioneer tree-planter; "Trees," mood piece set to musical treatment of Joyce Kilmer's poem; "Little Toot," story of a heroic little tugboat who saves an ocean liner; "Blame it on the Samba," Donald Duck and Jose Carioca have the blues blown away at a Latin cafe; "Pecos Bill," story of the legendary cowpoke, his trusty mount Widowmaker and his sweetheart Slue Foot Sue.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: horse and wagon, waterfall, pond, rabbit, bird, spider, photograph ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: based on book, marriage, scot, suit of armor, spanking, bagpipes, narration ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the international best-seller by Amos Oz, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS is the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell, become the stories we live.—Studio
Plot Keywords: mother son relationship, depression, grief, gypsy, colonel, pistol, gunshot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: american indian, western town, street shootout, violence, gun battle, shootout, wild west ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Army deserter Bart Laish decides that the best way for him to get away is to join a wagon train headed for Oregon. They're about a week ahead of him and on the trail Bart comes across an old friend, Major Andy Pepperis who is dying from wounds received in an Indian attack. He warns Bart that the Indians will next attack the wagon train and afterward finds the army station, Camp Taylor, destroyed. He assumes Pepperis' identity and catches up to the wagon train taking command of the soldiers escorting it. He proves to be a capable leader and quickly gains everyone's respect. As they get closer to their destination, Bart is closer to being caught and has to decide if and when he will leave them.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: based on novel, covered wagon, fortress, male female relationship, u.s. cavalry, kiss, cavalry charge ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alvin, Simon, Theodore have been living with, and annoying, Dave Seville for about 8 years now. Now they discover that Dave has a girlfriend and worry that he'll dump them for her. To save their relationship with Dave, the Chipmunks must find a way to stop him from proposing.
Plot Keywords: talking animal, road trip, on the road, animal protagonist, new orleans louisiana, suitcase, airport ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains: Black Knight Ghost, Pterodactyl Ghost and Tar Monster. Could it be that their nemesis, mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest enemies? Velma has a crush on the museum curator Patrick Wisely despite her fears of intimacy but why is he acting so suspicious? The Mystery Gang is hard pressed to succeed this time, since annoying television reporter Heather Jasper-Howe insists they are buffoons.
Plot Keywords: monster, tv, axe, fistfight, damsel in distress, fight, fighting ...
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