The Hateful Eight (2015), My Darling Clementine (1946), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Dodge City (1939), Rocky Mountain (1950), Virginia City (1940), Trooper Hook (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Stagecoach Driver movies.
Storyline: In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, barfly, guitar player, fistfight, gunfire, vindication, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Cisco Kid and Pancho hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth. They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo will look after her. She tells Cisco of a mysterious Doctor Willis who called on an aged woman she had been nursing and gave her an overdose of sleeping pills. Convinced that Ellen is innocent, Cisco sets out to prove it. He goes to Bill Hastings where he makes a deal to turn Ellen in if Cisco gets part of the money Hastings will inherit when she is convicted. With Ellen safely in jail, Cisco and Pancho force the local newspaper to run a story saying that Doc Willis has been apprehended. Hastings makes another deal with Cisco to kill Ellen before she testifies against Doc.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, vindication, violence, reprisal, retribution, gang member, gang leader ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his sister's name to the deed and sells it to Larson. Eddie knows there is silver ore in the area and that Lawson, who killed the Sheriff, is out to get all the ranches. When Lawson appoints himself the new Sheriff, Eddie organizes the ranchers to fight Lawson and his men.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, stagecoach driver, swindle, song, silver, cowboy horse relationship, cowboy in tight pants ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by his French great-grandmother that epitomizes what he is trying to capture. The story behind the photographer's heritage and that photograph... In the early 1870s, photographer Francis Leroy and who would eventually becomes his wife, Jeanne Leroy née Perriere, a baker's daughter and an aspiring photographer in her own right, move from Paris, where strife has taken hold due to Napoleon's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, to the American west, where the light is more conducive for their photography work. The move is despite not knowing about life at their destination and not knowing how to speak English. Veterinarian David Williams and his wife Mary Williams love each other, but their wants in life are incompatible with each other, David who loves his work treating real animals on farms and ranches, while Mary would rather live in Philadelphia where she was raised, especially as she feels isolated more often than not being alone on their remote farm. Several years later after both Francis and Mary are tragically killed in separate incidents, Jeanne and David meet for the first time as they both drop their respective children off at the same boarding school run by its unconventional teacher, Alice. Despite Jeanne and David's attraction to each other, a second chance at love for both may be impeded by the memories of their respective first spouse, for David especially as Mary's murderers were never caught.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: death of father, episodic, isolation, bartender, grief, tension, boarding school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1876, Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk, Colorado on time, to keep it from competing with his stagecoach line. Kit, who must get the train to its goal, forces Johnny aboard as the needed passenger. Madame Adelaide's showgirls (including Marilyn as Clara) ride along and, en route to Tomahawk, join Johnny in "Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are".—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: railway, train engineer, train conductor, grandfather, fireworks, knocked unconscious, dynamite ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hayden is after the rancher's land. He lends them money and then to stop repayment, he has his henchmen rob the stage of the anxiously awaited money. But Billy and Fuzzy recover the letters before they are burned, and Billy, reading the letters, comes to believe the towns leading citizen Hayden is the culprit.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, texas, greed, treachery, stagecoach robbery, stagecoach driver, vindication ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by both singing cowboy Bill Harkins and the Banton brothers, Roy and Bart. During a stagecoach race to determine who is awarded the contract, Roy, fueled by his greed as well as his desire for Bill's lady friend, resorts to sabotaging his rival's rig in order to win. Bill, having an idea who is behind a recent rash of stagecoach robberies, devises a plan to catch the highwaymen but not before he is himself arrested for robbery and murder, having been seen committing the crime by impartial eye witnesses.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: vindication, hostage, competition, fistfight, sabotage, treachery, barfly ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.
Plot Keywords: arizona territory, gang member, gunfighter, gunfight, henchman, hold up, indian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miner Dan Barton (Ken Maynard) and his partner George Malden, known as "Tennessee", have hit a strike on their claim, and Dan returns to their cabin to find that Malden has departed to meet his sister, Alice (Jeanette Loff), who is arriving on the stage from Tennessee to join her brother. Dan knows that Malden has a weakness for drink, gambling and girls and follows him to town, where he finds him playing cards with gamblers Fox Tyson (Charles King) and saloon owner Ace Brady (William Thorne) who, with the aid of bar girl Queenie (Carmelita Geraghty), are well on their way to cheating him out of his share of the claim. Dan puts the stop to that, but Malden is killed by Tyson and Dan is framed for the killing. He escapes and saves Alice from a stagecoach disaster, and takes her to his and Malden's cabin, but doesn't let her know he is wanted for the death of her brother. But Ace and Tyson quickly inform her, and are well on their way to getting all of the Barton/Malden gold mine. The two songs are "Wait for the Wagon" and "Oh, Susanna." Other than being filmed under the working title of "California in 1878", which was also the title of Jack Natteford's original story,and then getting sold to TV in 1949 and having the title changed, there are no other alternative titles on this film. Two alternative spellings are shown by some sources---fighting for fightin' and through for thru---but those are typos created by two different trade paper reviewers in 1930.Accuracy regarding B-western titles was not a sticky point with the trade papers of the day.There are several versions of this story, including a Maynard remake called "Fargo Express" and Reliable Pictures used the story for Bob Steele's "The Pal from Texas."—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, horse billed above the title, grindhouse film, betrayal, prospector, jail break, white horse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Belle Andrews' (Constance Bennett) gambling hall burns down in the Chicago fire of 1871 and, now penniless, she accepts Jim Farrel's (Warren William) invitation to accompany him to Powder River, Montana, to open a gambling casino. Farrel has plans to get control of all the land in Powder River by hiring henchmen to file claims on the land, a proceeding overlooked by the settlers. On the stagecoach to Powder River, they meet Wild Bill Hickok (Bruce Cabot). Once there, Farrel has his claim jumpers go to work, and even has Ned Nolan (Russell Simpson) convicted of a framed-up murder charge, and fixes the jury just to be safe. Hickok then begins to organize the settlers to fight back against Farrel.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, hostage, vengeance, stock footage, cattleman, violence, cattle drive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.
Plot Keywords: romantic triangle, reformation, ambush, bushwhacker, melbourne australia, police inspector, outlaw ...
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: Bob Holliday (Broderick Crawford), owner of the Bella Union saloon in Deadwood, sends his younger brother, Jim Holliday (Robert Stack), to St. Louis, Missouri to escort back Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford), Bob's childhood sweetheart. On the riverboat journey back to Deadwood, Jim and Anne fall in love and are married by the riverboat captain. Whe Bob learns of this he is outraged and goes on a drunken binge and is beat up by the ruthless Jack McCall (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and is saved by a teamster called and known only as Jane (Frances Farmer). She loves Bob and has thought she and Bob would get married. Bitter Bob joins McCall's renegades who, disguised as Indians, rob the stagecoach gold shipments , aided by information supplied by Ransome (Bradley Page), the local agent for the stagecoach line. To end the lawlessness, leading citizens of the town decide to hire a town marshal. When Wild Bill Hickok, turns down the job, Bob suggests that the unqualified Jim be given the job. Bob thinks that Jim will be humiliated and possibly killed, so he can marry Jim's widow. With timely interference by Hickok, Jim arrests McCall but he escapes. And Jane makes an unsuccessful attempt to stop Bob riding with the renegades. Jim has a plan to capture the outlaws by having a posse follow the stagecoach, but it goes awry but Jim finds a watch-fob belonging to Bob. The latter claims he lost it when McCall beat him up. Jim buys his exclamation. Meanwhile McCall murders Hickok and Jim is going after him but is stopped when Jane warns the town that, based on smoke signals, it is about to be attacked by the Sioux. Jim sends stagecoach driver, Hurricane Harry (Fuzzy Knight), to bring General Custer (Addison Richards) and his 7th Cavalry troopers. The Sioux attack and set fire to the town, while Bob and McCall and the gang members, disguised as Indians and under cover of the attack, plan to rob the bank.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: uncle niece relationship, outlaw, gang, death, romantic rivalry, u.s. cavalry, st. louis missouri ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: soldier, stagecoach driver, symbol, thirst, trap, violence, wagon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Case Britton reluctantly returns to his home town where he had killed two men. The citizens are none too enthused about his return, but Marshal Tom Evans becomes more friendly when Cases explains that he has returned to warn the town that bandit Jack Cantrell intends to rob the stage and express office. Case's sweetheart Della Haines is a passenger on the stage. Case and the Marshal decide on a defense play.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: newlywed, lawman, gunfight, gunfire, gold, stagecoach driver, u.s. marshal ...
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