Pack Train (1953), Django (1966), Man With the Gun (1955), ¡Three Amigos! (1986), Man From Del Rio (1956), Three Hours to Kill (1954), Shootout (1971), Law and Order (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Saloon Owner movies.
Storyline: When Sunshine Valley settlers face disaster because of a food shortage and medicine shortage, Gene Autry and Dan Coleman, father of Gene's friend Jennifer, buy supplies in Trail's End, but additional supplies promised by the operators of the town's only store, Lola Riker and her partner Ross McLain are not forthcoming. With the aid of the law and his friend Smiley, Gene gets a shipment through to Sunshine Valley, battling off a hi-jacking attempt but too late to prevent a little girl, Judy, from dying because of a lack of medicine. Gene heads for a showdown battle with McLain.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: death of child, comic sidekick, gunfight, knife in back, capitalist, horse, ambush ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and, later, arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene for confrontation is set. But why does he drag that coffin everywhere and who, or what, is in it?
Plot Keywords: spaghetti western, coffin, revisionist western, ku klux klan, shootout, gatling gun, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: revenge, building on fire, casino, gambler, gunfighter, brothel madam, orchestral music score ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn to a Mexican village that is being harassed by a gang of outlaws. The three, 'Ned', 'Lucky Day' and 'Dusty Bottoms' play 'Lone Ranger' types in their movies, but must play their parts for real now.
Plot Keywords: held at gunpoint, peasant, parody, owl, movie studio, german, fighter pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: barroom brawl, doctor, drunkenness, law enforcement, saloon owner, saloon, sheriff ...
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: Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 8 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 8 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter.—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: undressing, bathing, orphan, camping, ex convict, target shooting, outlaw gang ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having cleaned up Tombstone, marshal Frame Johnson quits after an attempted lynching, and hopes to settle down on a ranch near Cottonwood with his sweetheart Jeannie. Before he can do so, it looks like he may have to clean up Cottonwood too. But how great a sacrifice will he make for law and order?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: murder by gunshot, jail cell, resisting arrest, judge, job offer, lawman, death of brother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, murder, killer, gun duel, gang member, gang leader, death of brother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lordsburg, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: new mexico territory, based on novel, dancehall girl, gunfighter, revenge, small town, fistfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a fictionalized biography, Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: montana, nickname as title, character name as title, state in title, barroom brawl, gambler, gambling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brett runs a protection racket for an unknown boss. When Jeff Hayes arrives and opens a gambling den, they try to shut him down. Unlike the others who have given in, he plans to fight back.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, retribution, reprisal, double feature film, bushwhacker, b western, low budget film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Framed for a stagecoach accident, John Bishop is jailed. Bob Leadly helps break him out and in return John heads for Sonora to look for Leadly's missing son. He finds him when he joins Monte Black's gang, a gang from which no member has ever escaped alive.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: false accusation, hostility, pre code film, fugitive, retribution, reprisal, vindication ...
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