It's Christmas Eve in 1943; in a small Georgia town two young children await their father's return at the local train station...
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2006
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A handful of kids planning a spooky night of camping out get some real scares in this comedy-drama for the whole family. The...
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2005
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The fact that Tippi Hedren is cast as the grandmother of the protagonist is hardly the only Hitchcock reference in the...
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1999
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Arthur Cotton
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1996
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Oscar-winning character actor Ben Johnson was never as well known as other stars, and yet for many industry insiders, he was...
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1996
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Sensing that his rodeo career is waning, rangy Joe Wade increasingly seeks solace with booze. His life is rapidly going down...
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1996
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The television movie Bonanza: Under Attack involves characters made popular in the long-running television western Bonanza....
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Bronc Evans
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1995
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1994
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Updated from the 1951 film of the same name, Angels In The Outfield takes liberties with the original to bring sentimental...
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Hank Murphy
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1994
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None of the original cast members of the long-running (1959-73) TV western series Bonanza are on hand for the 1993 TV movie...
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Bronc Evans
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1994
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Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother....
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Geronimo Bill
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1992
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Warren Oates was a well-respected American supporting actor who achieved his greatest success during the 1960s and 70s. He...
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1992
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Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover...
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Jessie Dalton, Dad
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1991
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This exciting chase-film originally aired on television and tells the true tale of the high-speed pursuit of a fleeing bank...
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1991
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High in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, a cache of stolen bank money was hidden back in the 1960s. LA based lawyer...
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Eli Hix
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1990
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The good people of Milo, Kansas (pop. 1,972) combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to...
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Sheriff
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1989
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In this arch sci-fi sex comedy-cum-action extravaganza, a hard-nosed female mercenary helps a hapless yuppie find a new body...
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Six Finger Jake
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1988
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In this drama, a Vietnam vet takes a stand when government agents attempt to take his ranch so they can build a missile base...
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1988
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Sharon Rae (Mary Pillot) is a Texas rancher who seeks vengeance against the two drifting rapists (Adam Roarke and...
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1987
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1986
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This interesting documentary charts the history of Europe's first all-black ballet corps, the Ballets Negres, comprised of...
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1986
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A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred...
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1986
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A former rodeo champion gets an insatiable hunkering to get back in the saddle and ride out on a wild horse round up in this...
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Bill Ward
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1984
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Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war...
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1984
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John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of...
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1984
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Set during Prohibition in a tiny Southern town filled with colorful characters, this all-star comedy follows the exploits of...
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1983
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In this made-for-TV movie, two brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War return home at the end of the war to...
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Uncle Jack Traven
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1982
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Tex represented the first film adaption of a novel by "teen angst" specialist S. E. Hinton. Matt Dillon stars as Tex...
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1982
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A shell-shocked Vietnam vet escapes from an Alabama mental ward and tries to hole up in a little county town. He uses his...
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1981
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Riding the coattails of the resurgent boom in horror films after the success of Halloween, Terror Train features...
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Carne
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1980
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Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter...
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Sheriff Strong
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1980
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In this made-for-TV western, sudden pulp-novel fame drives gunslinger High Cardiff (Sam Elliott) to make good use of his...
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1979
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The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers...
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1979
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Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the...
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1978
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John Colter
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1977
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With Muhammad Ali cast as himself, The Greatest covers Ali's life from his "Cassius Clay" days to the celebrated Ali/George...
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1977
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Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) boards a train to go after a...
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Nathan Pearce
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1976
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Having already overrun most of South America, a swarm of vicious African killer bees prepares to descend upon the United...
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Sheriff Donald McKew
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1976
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The saddle tramp cowboy was made into a hero in large part by the movies. As early as 1903, Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train...
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1976
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This thriller -- based on actual events -- tells in a pseudo-documentary-style of the murders of five people by a man in...
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Capt. J.D. Morales
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1976
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Mister
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1975
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Marty Hollinger
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1975
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Based on an actual incident, Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature follows the adventures of a Texas outlaw couple...
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Capt. Tanner
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1974
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This TV-movie spin on "Lenningen vs. the Ants" not only features predatory locusts, but grasshoppers as well. The insect...
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1974
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A hapless outlaw discovers he isn't any better off on the right side of the law in this offbeat western comedy set at the...
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1973
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John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that...
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Melvin Purvis
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1973
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Several familiar faces dot the cast of the made-for-TV Runaway! The scene is a treacherous mountainside, where several skiers...
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1973
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The action never stops in this western, which has a surprise ending. Ann-Margret stars as Mrs. Lowe, a widow who wishes to...
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Jesse
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1973
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Dwayne Birdsong
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1973
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The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949....
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1973
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A grease monkey becomes so obsessed with stock-car racing that the rest of his life begins to fall apart in this...
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1972
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Jack Benyon
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1972
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Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior...
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Buck Roan
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1972
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1972
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In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé...
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1971
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Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to...
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Sam The Lion
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1971
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Joining his fellow ranchers in a big cattle drive, Ben Cartwright chooses veteran cowboy Kelly James (Ben Johnson) as trail...
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Kelly James
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1971
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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James Pepper
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1970
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Carroll O'Connor was two years away from Archie Bunker when he signed for the minor Disney effort Ride a Northbound Horse....
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1969
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Ben Johnson guest-stars as Sgt. Samuel Bellis, accused of desertion, murder, and selling guns to the Indians. Bellis insists...
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Sgt. Samuel Bellis
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1969
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This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by...
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1969
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"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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1969
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Video art by Eric Siegfal--three, short abstract works. ~ Rovi...
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1968
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Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback,...
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1968
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Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport...
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1967
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Andrew V. McLaglen directs the Western drama The Rare Breed, based on the real-life introduction of English Hereford cattle...
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1966
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Despite his dishonorable discharge from the Army, Jason (Chuck Connors) is asked to be sheriff in the small town where he has...
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1966
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Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its...
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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Reba Burgess (Audrey Totter) has managed to keep her late husband's mining company alive by securing big bank loans, using a...
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1964
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Eight years ago, Paladin (Richard Boone) was unable to keep his promise to assure a fair trial for John Bartlett (Ben...
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1962
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Advertised on the sleeve of its home-video release as a "Charles Bronson western", Bull of the West is actually comprised of...
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1962
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While on a cattle drive, the Cartwright men make a stopover in the town of Alkali. The next morning, the Cartwrights are...
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1962
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio...
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Bob Emory
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1961
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by rancher Sam Crabbe (played by future Oscar winner Ben Johnson) to ride in a...
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1961
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Critics consistently consider this historical drama one of the worst films Disney ever made. It is the true-tale of ten...
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George Bradley
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1960
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A young white woman has been abducted by the Sioux, and her father has come to Paladin to help effect her rescue. In this...
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1960
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George Bradley
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1960
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There's a measure of sympathy for the Apaches at the beginning of Fort Bowie. Under the tyrannical rule of ambitious Major...
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Capt. Thomas Thompson
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1958
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This heartwarming tale chronicles the friendship between a young Texas girl and her pet calf, which she won at the county...
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1958
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1958
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This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around...
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Montana Burriss
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1957
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War Drums manages to be pro-Indian, pro-Mexican, pro-tolerance and pro-feminist without ever resorting to speechmaking or...
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Luke Fargo
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1957
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Rebel in Town was the third issue from Bel-Air Productions, a firm co-founded by film execs Howard W. Koch and...
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1956
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which...
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1955
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The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and...
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1955
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western...
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1953
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Though Ben Johnson would have to wait until the 1970s before full stardom was bestowed upon him, 1952's Wild Stallion proved...
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Dan Light
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1952
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Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his...
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Ben Shelby
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1951
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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Travis Blue
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1950
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen...
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Trooper Tyree
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1950
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Gregg
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1949
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in...
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Sgt. Tyree
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1949
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men...
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1948
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1948
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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