This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima....
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1961
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While escorting four prisoners through the desert, Capt. Jim Pattisall (Alan Hale Jr.) is wounded in an Apache attack. Bart...
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1960
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Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her...
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1959
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1956
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This Lone Ranger western is comprised of three episodes from the TV series. He and Tonto look into a haunted canyon. They...
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1956
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production....
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1955
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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1954
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In this adventure Bomba the Jungle boy helps a Hollywood movie star search the dark, dangerous jungle for her missing...
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1954
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A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco...
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1953
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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The tenth of Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series, Savage Mutiny finds Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) working on behalf of the US...
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Chief Wamai
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1953
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The answer is: A turgid melodrama. The question: What is Jeopardy? Barbara Stanwyck stars as a suburbanite on a Mexican...
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1953
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Rod Cameron's western vehicles for Monogram were always worth watching, even when Cameron was better than the scripts. In...
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1952
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Although Smoky Canyon is officially an entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series, the film is essentially a...
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1952
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The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran...
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1952
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Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time...
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1951
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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Courier
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1951
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Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story...
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1950
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Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was....
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1950
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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Showdown is the story of a trail boss named Shad Jones (Bill Elliott) whose younger brother is murdered. Knowing that a...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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1950
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The Walking Hills stars Randolph Scott as a Westerner named Jim Carey. He is one of several people searching for a lost gold...
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1949
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In this western, a cowboy comes to the aid of the Indians. The story begins as hero, Gene Autry, begins an investigation of a...
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1949
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Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little...
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1949
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One of the great onscreen romantic pairings, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, ended with this romantic adventure film, their...
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~...
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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1948
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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1947
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Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was...
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1947
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1947
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of...
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1946
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A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish...
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1946
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series...
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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1944
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Unlike previous "Trail Blazers" entries, each of which starred three veteran western heroes, Marked Trails top-bills only two...
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1944
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Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its...
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1942
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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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1942
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1941
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1941
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Frontier marshall Jim Lane (Lon Chaney) is investigating a local Indian tribe that he believes to be responsible for a series...
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1941
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The assistant to a railroad president battles an evil empire builder in this 13 chapter adventure serial produced by...
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1940
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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1940
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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1939
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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1939
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In this western, a dashing caballero makes a wager with his gang that he can court a beautiful dancer and lure her back to...
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1939
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With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal....
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1939
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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This medical melodrama, set in the moist Sumatran jungles, centers around bacteria research. To find a cure for red fever, a...
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1938
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A partial remake of Universal's Heroes of the West (1932), this 15 chapter serial was based on pulp writer Peter B. Kyne's...
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1938
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Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role....
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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1938
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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1938
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it...
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1938
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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1937
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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1936
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The Bold Caballero, Republic Pictures' first color film, was also the first talkie version of the "Zorro" legend (as...
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1936
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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1934
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A pretty Mexican dancer, Tina Menard, is actually the lead character in this low-budget Western ostensibly starring...
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Technical Director
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1934
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1934
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Just because Police Call was cheaply made doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Nick Stuart stars as Danny, a champion boxer...
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1933
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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1933
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Yankee Buck Jones turns into a south-of-the-border Robin Hood in this fine, if flawed, Western from Columbia Pictures....
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Juan
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1933
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In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled...
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1933
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A highly unusual Buck Jones Western, South of the Rio Grande featured the spectacle of Jones playing a Mexican Rurales...
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1932
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This second filming of Zane Grey's novel (first brought to the screen by Paramount in 1924 with Bebe Daniels as the female...
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1932
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The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
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Tonto
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1932
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In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her...
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1932
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, the hero leaves town after someone is killed during a feud. As he escapes, he...
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1932
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Just before his demotion to the ranks of minor character actors, Monte Blue starred in an above-average series of programmers...
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1932
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The Conquering Horde is a remake of the 1924 western epic North of 36, using generous amounts of stock footage from the...
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1931
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1931
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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1930
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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1930
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an...
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1929
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1929
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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Niambo
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1928
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1928
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1927
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1927
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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1926
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This melodrama, which involves the Philippine revolt during the final years of the 1800s, was based on a popular play from...
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1926
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1926
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Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega...
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1925
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This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called...
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Mosheshoe
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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Shoie
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1925
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Indian Guide
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1924
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Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of...
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1924
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1921
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After finishing his first costumer swashbuckler The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. reverted to his standard formula...
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1920
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1920
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Rancher Warren Bronson (Herbert Standing) is plagued by cattle rustlers, so he gets Western detective Fancy Jim Sherwood...
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1917
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Daydreaming clerk Douglas Fairbanks discovers that he's of royal blood. In fact, if his information is correct, he's next in...
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1917
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1917
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Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much...
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1917
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The charisma of Douglas Fairbanks keeps this two-reel idea interesting for five reels. Jimmy Conroy (Fairbanks) wants to...
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1916
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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