Sterling Hayden's Westerns
by KasparM | created - 12 Jul 2012 | updated - 12 Jul 2012 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. El Paso (1949)
Approved | 103 min | Western
In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 454
2. Hellgate (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Western
A man is framed and sent to toughest prison in the territory.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, James Arness
Votes: 530
3. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers
Votes: 618
4. Flaming Feather (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Western
In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush
Votes: 438
5. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 802
6. Take Me to Town (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal's custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Lee Patrick
Votes: 384
7. Johnny Guitar (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Western
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady
Votes: 19,742
8. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 509
9.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
Delay at Fort Bess
(1954)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A small army garrison is surrounded by Apaches who threaten to wipe out the entire command unless an Indian prisoner is set free.
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Barbara Billingsley, James Seay, Walter Coy
Votes: 7
10. Top Gun (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, William Bishop, Karin Booth, James Millican
Votes: 725
11. The Last Command (1955)
Passed | 110 min | History, War, Western
Moderate Jim Bowie leads rebellious Texicans--and Davy Crockett--in a last-ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 939
12. Timberjack (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In the late 1800s Montana, two competing logging operators clash over ownership of a logging railroad, land and timber clear-cutting rights.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou
Votes: 238
13. Shotgun (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Western
After vengeful Ben Thompson ambushes and kills Marshal Mark Fletcher with a shotgun, Deputy Marshal Clay Hardin pursues the Thompson gang.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo, Zachary Scott, Guy Prescott
Votes: 549
14. The Iron Sheriff (1957)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery, Western
When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor
Votes: 434
15. Valerie (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Western
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker
Votes: 392
16. Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
Approved | 67 min | Western
A double-crossed partner left for dead seeks revenge against the wishes of a woman who nursed him back to health and fell in love with him.
Directors: Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Mary Beth Hughes
Votes: 212
17.
Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode:
The Necessary Breed
(1957)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
A bounty hunter tracks a man to his home town. After he kills the man, he stops in to visit his wife. His wife tells him she can't live that type of life anymore and is leaving him. He says he can't change.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Jean Willes, James Griffith, Carlyle Mitchell
Votes: 32
18.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Les Rand Story
(1957)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Sterling Hayden, Sallie Brophy
Votes: 130
19. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Not Rated | 80 min | Western
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola
Votes: 2,412
20. Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Western
A bandido forces a pilot to fly him and some gold bars to the coast, but when the plane is shot down, they make the trip cross-country, accompanied by the bandit's nubile daughter, leaving a trail of love and death behind.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Carlos Múzquiz
Votes: 140
21. Cry, Onion (1975)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Western
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam, Emma Cohen
Votes: 761
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