John Ford's Films

All the men in the neighborhood love Bess, the daughter of the Mayor of Rockville, but she treats them coldly. Among this number is Jack Dayton, a son of Old Ireland known as the "No-Gun-Man" and Lesparre, leader of the Coyote gang. Lesparre brings his gang to town, holds up the bartender, secures all the whiskey they want, then robs the bank belonging to the Mayor, who offers $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen property. Jack's great desire is to get enough money to send to his mother in Ireland, to pay for the cottage in which she lives; so he starts after the bandits unarmed, although he is urged to take a gun. In the meantime, Lesparre has also kidnapped Bess and taken her to a place in the hills known as Coyote Hole. When Jack learns of this, he redoubles his efforts. He allows himself to be captured by the bandits, and on being taken before the chief, tells him he wishes to join the gang, and the chief finally consents. As soon as everyone is asleep, Jack enters the room in which Bess is imprisoned, and helps her to escape. He then wraps his blanket about him again and goes to sleep. In the morning the loss of the girl is discovered and Jack is suspected, and is locked in the room in which Bess was imprisoned. He finds the money and papers hidden in the bed, watches his chance, attacks the two men who are guarding him, defeats them after a desperate fight and escapes with the money. He reaches the railroad and climbs on a passing freight train. The gang follows closely, and after a fight, Jack throws Lesparre off the train, He finally reaches Rock River, is acclaimed a hero, returns the money and papers to the Mayor, and receives the girl in exchange.

On their way to Panama "Red" Saunders, a youth, meets Mary Smith and Arthur Saxon They become friends and he learns Mary is on her way to do missionary work with a Mr. Belknap. Arthur and Mary quarrel frequently and Mary tells him though she loves him, he must prove himself to be a man. Arthur loathes Belknap and denounces him, but Mary is loyal At the dock Jim, a rancher, asks the captain for a husky white man who can be trusted. The captain recommends Red. Through his grit Red wins out. Thrown from his horse, he is hurled into the lap of Orinez, a little fat Spaniard, head of the Government party and the ablest man in Panama. Red saves him from three bandits one night and the two men become good friends. Red goes to see Mary, who demands that he never speak to Arthur. Red goes to the store of Perez where Arthur is working, and finds him in a deplorable condition. Arthur tells him why he has been drinking hard. From the time they were children he and Mary had been sweethearts. They met Belknap, and Mary became interested in missionary work. One night he had been accosted by a woman who fainted in his arms. He carried her to the store, fed her and then takes her to his room to rest, after which he left. Belknap hastened to tell Mary. When Arthur next saw her she told him that his presence was an insult. Red goes with Perez to his home. Orinez rushes into the room and tells them he had seen Belknap meet Zampeto, the leader of the revolution, and heard him promise to make the converts join the revolution, if Zampeto would endow his mission. Red hears the revolutionists on their way to the ranch, so with the help of three men he barricades the store and hurls cans of tomatoes at the crowd, but is wounded severely by the time a troop of soldiers come to their rescue. Orinez, Perez and Jim arrange to trap the revolutionists that night. When Red finds out about their plans, in spite of his helpless arm, he joins Arthur and the other men, fires at Arthur, wounds him in the arm, and states he wants to tell Mary he is wounded and he couldn't tell a lie to her. The revolutionists are caught and Red with Orinez and Perez goes to the mission. Belknap enters and lunges at Red with a knife, but Red thrusts his revolver in his face and gives Belknap an hour to make his escape. Mary rushes into the room. He tells her Arthur is wounded. She demands to be taken to him. When Belknap tries to follow them, Perez and Orinez remind him he has only an hour. Though Mary refuses to listen Red insists upon telling her the whole story. They hurry to the hut. Arthur puts his good arm about her as she throws her arms about his neck. Red turns away and goes alone toward the town.

When bandits capture the wife of a US army lieutenant stationed in the Philippines, along with her lover, the choice is his whether to forgive.

Bored with the ranch, Buck's girl goes off to the city and gets involved in a brothel. When Buck brings a herd of cattle to town, a streetwalker lures him to the house just in time for him to save his girl from Martin.

Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.

During World War I, westerner Cheyenne Harry is a horse seller, but he refuses to part with his favorite horse and friend, Cactus. One night, broke and drunk, he sells Cactus to an Englishman for $350 which he soon loses gambling.

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.

Convict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes capture with the help of passenger Henry Beaufort.

A mother is convinced her son is a ranch owner when in fact he is an outlaw, and she just saves him from hanging.

A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.

The head of a band of cattle rustlers is defied, prompting him to call his phantom riders together and route the defier's cattle, and then seek their owner intent on taking his life.

Cheyenne Harry and his pals, bent on helping their friend Rawhide Jack, attend a rodeo with the intent to win the prize and to hand the winnings over to Jack. Harry is the successful winner and after the rodeo the boys get drunk and fall asleep.

Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead.

A man declined admission to fight in the American Civil War joins a gang of marauders and winds up as a fugitive.

A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.

Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie.

An Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.

Fellow convicts Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters become even more bitter enemies when Buck agrees to tamper with the prison's books for the warden's greedy son.

Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper.

When Sheriff Larkin's brother is falsely accused of a murder, Larkin still does his job - arrests the boy and takes him to prison. But, his duty done, the sheriff takes off his badge and helps his brother to escape.

The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.

A government ranger infiltrates a rustler gang so effectively, that Nell must save him from a lynch mob.

The marshal of a wild Kansas border town is killed in a gunfight in a saloon. His son, Cheyenne Harry, shoots dead two of the killers. Not wanting to lose both her son and her husband to gun violence, Harry's mother gets him to agree never to carry a gun again. However, Harry's rival for the beautiful Conchita, Boone Travis, commits a murder and frames Harry for it. Complications ensue.

A Government detective is on the trail of the "Cisco Kid." He falls in love with the youth's sister, and afterward becomes partner to the "Kid." The detective struggles between love and duty.

Jode McWilliams, the foreman of Circle O, is in love with Peg, the daughter of Pa Owens, the owner of the ranch. The trouble is that daddy won't allow! Which does not stop Jode from wanting to marry Peg. He asks Stumpy, the cook, to help him write a love letter to the lady of his heart. The other cowhands find it and, with a view to making fun of Jode, nail it to the door. Two Horns, an Indian, steals it and ... delivers it to Peg. When Jode and his posse, pursuing the facetious redskin, arrive at the Owenses' house, Jode's boss has already found out. A showdown ensues and the young man, who has lost the fight, is made prisoner and held in a room. But he is rescued by his pal Chub and a helpful parson marry the two lovebirds. Away they ride from the reluctant father towards happiness.