Gone with the Wind (1939), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Little Colonel (1935), Rebel in Town (1956), Backlash (1956), Night Stage to Galveston (1952), Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965), San Antonio (1945) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Post Civil War movies.
Storyline: A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: elephant, u.s. constitution, small town, slapstick comedy, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: fort, post civil war, ranch, cattle, native american, gunslinger, shot to death ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Plot Keywords: independent film, desperation, reprisal, retribution, grief, stress, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set after the American Civil War in the 1870s, 'Texas Rangers' is a story about a group of men determined to maintain peace and contain the chaos that is erupting on the Texan frontier. Native Americans are attempting to reclaim their land, Mexicans are pouring over the U.S. border, and renegade outlaws are tearing up the state, so the Texas Rangers swear to protect the innocent and their loved. To do so, they must be willing to maintain the peace where law enforcement cannot, fight while they are out-manned and out-armed by the opponent, and be willing to die for the freedom for which they fight.—Anna <dimenxia@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: auction, murder of family, death of family, whiskey, villain, tyrant, top hat ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
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