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1. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,527
2. Open Range (2003)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi
Votes: 78,262 | Gross: $58.33M
3. My Darling Clementine (1946)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western
After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs
Votes: 25,798
4. Hang 'Em High (1968)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, Western
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Ed Begley
Votes: 43,199
5. The Alamo (1960)
Passed | 162 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Director: John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 17,771 | Gross: $17.26M
6. Gunfighters (1947)
Passed | 87 min | Western
Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 920
7. Home on the Range (2004)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To save their farm, the resident animals go bounty hunting for a notorious outlaw.
Directors: Will Finn, John Sanford | Stars: Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jennifer Tilly, Randy Quaid
Votes: 26,068 | Gross: $50.03M
8. Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Wyoming, 1892: Monte's been cowboy for ranchers all his life but he's no longer young and big business is taking over the ranches.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads
Votes: 3,042
9. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Western
When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 24,990 | Gross: $1.64M
10. Angel and the Badman (1947)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
Director: James Edward Grant | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 6,680
11. Monte Walsh (1970)
PG-13 | 106 min | Western
An aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more--and that there will be no room for him, either.
Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 3,041
12. Murder in Coweta County (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Western
In 1948, in rural Georgia, Coweta County is watched over by its legendary, indomitable Sheriff Lamar Potts (Johnny Cash). No felony had ever gone unsolved while Sheriff Potts was in charge.... See full summary »
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Earl Hindman, Ed Van Nuys
Votes: 769
13. Hour of the Gun (1967)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Western
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi
Votes: 4,606
14. Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Approved | 116 min | Western
During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 2,740
15. Dallas (1950)
Approved | 94 min | Western
A former Confederate officer hunting for an outlaw who wronged him finds him in Dallas, but now as a wealthy, respectable citizen.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey
Votes: 1,520
16. The Range Feud (1931)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming, Edward LeSaint
Votes: 485
17. The Lucky Texan (1934)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock
Votes: 1,372
18. The Sundowners (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Western
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of feuding ranchers in the old west.
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs
Votes: 562
19. To the Last Man (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Western
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Jack La Rue, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 675
20. Carry on Cowboy (1965)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Western
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise...
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 3,395
21. Mail Order Bride (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 88 min | Romance, Western
Diana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. She takes the place of her dying friend, who was to become some man's mail-order bride. Can she pull off this last con?
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Daphne Zuniga, Greg Evigan, Cameron Bancroft, Vincent Gale
Votes: 501
22. The McMasters (1970)
GP | 90 min | Action, Drama, Western
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan
Votes: 368
23. Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,055
24. Horizons West (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Judith Braun
Votes: 1,170
25. Streets of Laredo (1949)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Western
An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime after they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, William Bendix
Votes: 794
26. Saddle Tramp (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
A saddle tramp unexpectedly becomes foster parent to four children for whom he provides by working on a ranch that's embroiled in a feud with another ranch and cattle rustlers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire
Votes: 694
27. Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Western
Greer Garson plays a female doctor who plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith
Votes: 599
28. Billy the Kid (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In 1880 New Mexico, during a feud between cattle growers, former childhood friends Billy the Kid and Jim Sherwood end-up working for opposite sides.
Directors: David Miller, Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard
Votes: 1,070
29. The Texas Rangers (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 839
30. The Broken Star (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Western
When a deputy marshal murders a henchman, steals the racketeer money he is holding, and claims self defense, the head marshal orders an investigation to find the truth.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Howard Duff, Lita Baron, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 261
31. Code Two (1953)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The adventures of motorcycle cops, from their academy days, to chasing crooked truckers.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Elaine Stewart, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 474
32. Smoky (1946)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Family, Music
Drama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter, Burl Ives, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 466
33. The Moonlighter (1953)
Approved | 78 min | Western
A cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching
Votes: 693
34. Red River Range (1938)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lorna Gray
Votes: 453
35. Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Drama, Western
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seessel Anne Johnson
Votes: 242
36. Rawhide (1938)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Baseball superstar Gehrig is one of several ranchers being coerced by a bunch of bandits. His sister and her lawyer/lover organize the ranchers.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Smith Ballew, Lou Gehrig, Evalyn Knapp, Arthur Loft
Votes: 191
37. Mail Order Bride (1964)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Western
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton, Warren Oates
Votes: 592
38. Robbery Under Arms (1957)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two brothers join their father in Captain Starlight's bush ranger gang in 19th Century Australia.
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum, Maureen Swanson
Votes: 302
39. The First Bad Man (1955)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Ritter, Tex Avery, June Foray
Votes: 453
40. Smoke in the Wind (1975)
PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
Directors: Joseph Kane, Andy Brennan | Stars: John Ashley, John Russell, Myron Healey, Walter Brennan
Votes: 53
41. Trail Dust (1936)
Open | 77 min | Western
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 212
42. Fighters from Ave Maria (1970)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Spaghetti Western set in gold rush times in California, involving circus acrobats, outlaws and a gold mine.
Director: Bitto Albertini | Stars: Tony Kendall, Pietro Torrisi, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Ida Meda
Votes: 95
43. Roarin' Lead (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
Hackett, the executive of the local Cattleman's association which also runs the local orphanage is using the Association police to rustle cattle and embezzle its funds.
Directors: Sam Newfield, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Christine Maple
Votes: 103
44. Simon, el gran varón (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls.
Directors: Miguel Barreda-Delgado, Arturo Velazco | Stars: Alberto Estrella, Hugo Stiglitz, Alicia Encinas, Gibran Gonzalez
Votes: 42
45. Rustlers' Valley (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 229
46. The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958)
Approved | 72 min | Western
Matt Sloane is sent from Texas to Arizona to tame Tombstone where a gang of outlaws deals with cattle and silver. One of them killed his wife.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: George Montgomery, Jim Davis, Beverly Tyler, Gerald Milton
Votes: 250
47. Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama, Western
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie becomes a reluctant witness.
Directors: Lee Garmes, John Ireland | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Tom Powers
Votes: 94
48. Once Upon a Horse... (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Western
Dan and Doc are incompetent desperados who plan to give crime one more try before going straight. Miss Amity Babb is the shapely toast of Empty Cup, Colorado who sets prices by Wall Street,... See full summary »
Director: Hal Kanter | Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson
Votes: 123
49. Trigger Tom (1935)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Tom Hilton and Stub Macey are heading out to the Jergenson ranch to buy his cattle. However, Jeckyl and Sheriff Slater control the cattle market that forces the ranchers to buy at their ... See full summary »
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Al St. John, William Gould, John Elliott
Votes: 41
50. El Paso Stampede (1953)
Passed | 53 min | Drama, Western
The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Eddy Waller, Phyllis Coates
Votes: 67