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1. McLintock! (1963)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Western

Wealthy rancher G. W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 16,630

2. Mackenna's Gold (1969)

M | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv

Votes: 9,883

3. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

GP | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin

Votes: 30,622 | Gross: $11.50M

4. The Comancheros (1961)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Western

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff

Votes: 10,013

5. River of No Return (1954)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.

Directors: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig

Votes: 13,012

6. Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards

Votes: 1,326

7. Unconquered (1947)

Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff

Votes: 2,896

8. The Naked Spur (1953)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 12,671

9. Kit Carson (1940)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, Western

Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber

Votes: 625

10. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western

In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley

Votes: 1,094

11. The New Land (1972)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Western

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt

Votes: 5,290

12. A Thunder of Drums (1961)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Western

The trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 941

13. Smoke Signal (1955)

Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, Western

A suspected cavalry deserter proves to be resourceful in helping the surviving members of a fort flee Indians along a dangerous river.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason, William Talman

Votes: 530

14. Rocky Mountain (1950)

Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 1,322

15. The Hired Gun (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Western

A woman breaks out of jail before hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel

Votes: 385

16. Trooper Hook (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews

Votes: 1,007

17. Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)

Passed | 88 min | Western

Two sons of a general try to prove that he did not give an order that resulted in the Indian massacre of a wagon train and army fort.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 553

18. The Glory Guys (1965)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western

What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.

Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan

Votes: 1,018

19. Massacre Canyon (1954)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Cavalrymen disguised as civilians must drive a wagon train loaded with army rifles through dangerous Apache territory to Fort Collins.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Audrey Totter, Douglas Kennedy, Jeff Donnell

Votes: 157

20. Buffalo Bill (1944)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western

The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,702

21. Bullet for a Badman (1964)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western

Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee, Beverley Owen

Votes: 1,084

22. Thunder in the Sun (1959)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle.

Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Blanche Yurka

Votes: 484

23. Tomahawk (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western

In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston Foster

Votes: 1,048

24. Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)

Passed | 87 min | Western

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson, John McIntire

Votes: 1,291

25. Column South (1953)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins

Votes: 731

26. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Family, Western

The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery

Votes: 405

27. Great Day in the Morning (1956)

Approved | 92 min | Western

A Confederate drifter wins a hotel saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol

Votes: 1,038

28. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari

Votes: 2,388

29. Miracle in the Wilderness (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Jericho and Dora Adams, along with their infant son, are captured by American Indians seeking revenge for Jericho killing the chief's son. The chief intends raising the Adams' son as his ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin James Dobson | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Kim Cattrall, John Dennis Johnston, Rino Thunder

Votes: 228

30. The Thundering Herd (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Western

Both Sprague and Jett and their crews are hunting buffalo. Doan is with Sprague and is looking for the Jett outfit where his girlfriend Milly is being held against her will.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Buster Crabbe, Noah Beery

Votes: 329

31. Badlands of Dakota (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Western

Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix, Frances Farmer

Votes: 267

32. Valley of the Sun (1942)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger

Votes: 427

33. Go West, Young Lady (1941)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Federal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete.'

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 397

34. Fort Courageous (1965)

Approved | 72 min | Western

An ex-cavalry sergeant, being escorted to prison after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, finds himself leading the remnants of a unit that has been under Indian attack at a fort.... See full summary »

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Fred Beir, Don 'Red' Barry, Hanna Landy, Harry Lauter

Votes: 181

35. Cody of the Pony Express (1950)

Approved | 270 min | Western

An Eastern syndicate, plotting to gain control of the western frontier, hires a gang led by Mort Black to drive out the settlers. Army undercover agent Lt. Jim Archer and young Pony Express... See full summary »

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett

Votes: 41

36. Fort Osage (1952)

Approved | 72 min | Western

A greedy Missouri merchant overcharges the westbound settlers for goods and for passage to California while also stealing the Osages' supplies who consequently start attacking all passing wagon trains.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 208

37. The Bold Caballero (1936)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western

The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.

Director: Wells Root | Stars: Robert Livingston, Heather Angel, Sig Ruman, Ian Wolfe

Votes: 249

38. San Antone (1953)

90 min | Drama, Western

A Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado

Votes: 191

39. California Mail (1936)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western

Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by Banton brothers Roy and Bart, and singing cowboy Bill Harkins. During a stagecoach race to determine ... See full summary »

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Smoke, Edmund Cobb

Votes: 133

40. Overland Mail (1942)

Approved | 279 min | Drama, Western

Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.

Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Helen Parrish, Noah Beery Jr., Don Terry

Votes: 80

41. Wagons Westward (1940)

Approved | 69 min | Western

Two brothers, one a sheriff, the other a bandit. The sheriff has to arrest his brother.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Anita Louise, Buck Jones, Ona Munson

Votes: 77

42. The Flaming Frontier (1926)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane

Votes: 29

43. Pony Post (1940)

Passed | 59 min | Western

Cal Sheridan (Johnny Mack Brown) accompanies Major Goodwin (Tom Chatteron) and his daughter, Alice (Dorothy Short), to the Ruby Valley express station, where dissolute operator Griff Atkins... See full summary »

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dorothy Short

Votes: 57

44. Saddlemates (1941)

Passed | 56 min | Western

When a strip of land along the Red River is declared in Indian Territory instead of Texas, the Rangers leave and the Army moves in. Now ex-rangers the Mesquiteers stay on as scouts. The new... See full summary »

Director: Lester Orlebeck | Stars: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Gale Storm

Votes: 64

45. Sons of the Plains (1938)

Approved | 19 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Separated at infancy by an Indian raiding party, one twin is raised as an Indian, the other as white. They meet years later and discover they are brothers. Together they work to foil the ... See full summary »

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Russell Simpson, John Ridgely

46. Prairie Thunder (1937)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Dick Foran, Janet Shaw, Smoke, Frank Orth

Votes: 113

47. Brave Eagle (1955–1956)
Episode: Moonfire (1955)

26 min | Western

A stubborn young white girl who is staying at Brave Eagle's village refuses to leave with her uncle, a cavalry officer. The uncle believes she is being held against her will and determines ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Keith Larsen, Anthony Numkena, Bert Wheeler, Kim Winona