Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric...
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1994
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Randolph Scott is as strong and silent as ever in Thunder Over the Plains. The scene is Texas, in the years just following...
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1953
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Though he doesn't wield a sword nor wear a plumed hat, singing cowboy Rex Allen qualifies as The Last Musketeer in this...
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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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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1949
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1949
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' starts off on a tense note as a struggling man is led through the streets of a western town,...
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1948
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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In this western, a marshal goes undercover to stop a brutal gang of crooks from continuing to terrorize local ranchers....
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1947
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The first of Tim Holt's 1943 quota of RKO westerns was Fighting Frontier. This time, Holt appears to be cast as a...
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1943
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Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series was in its fifth year of production when Raiders of the Range was released in...
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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1942
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The time-honored "homesteaders vs. cattlemen" plot device is given another go-round in the Republic western The Cyclone Kid....
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1942
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Not quite as exciting as it should be, Stardust on the Sage is still a serviceable Gene Autry vehicle. This time, Gene is...
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1942
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The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are...
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1942
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Republic's The Phantom Plainsman is another in the long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. The heroic triumverate...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Thundering Hoofs was the first of several Tim Holt westerns directed by "Hopalong Cassidy" veteran Lesley...
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1941
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Also known as The Singing Hills, this Gene Autry western boasts a screenplay cowritten by Jesse Lasky Jr. Gene and his...
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Tim Holt and sidekicks Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn join an outlaw gang in this RKO Western filmed on-location at Victorville,...
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1941
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1941
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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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George O'Brien's first 1940 western release, Legion of the Lawless uses its frontier trappings for a plea against vigilante...
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1940
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In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down...
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1940
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In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent...
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1939
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This formula western stars George O'Brien as a member of the Arizona Rangers, a quasi-vigilante society aimed at ridding the...
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1939
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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1939
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In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important...
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1939
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Filmed on a budget of $77,000, Rookie Cop was another attempt by RKO Radio to transform canine star Ace the Wonder Dog into...
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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1939
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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1938
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Riders of Black Hills is the second of 13 consecutive "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by George Sherman. The...
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1938
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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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Warner Bros.' resident singing cowboy, the amiable Dick Foran, warbles "The Prairie Is My Home" and "When the Cowboy Takes a...
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1937
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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Gene Autry gets into a heated fight with an oil company in this very tuneful early entry in the Autry oeuvre, restored in...
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1937
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1937
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In the tradition of such earlier Universal serials as Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, the 12-chapter Radio Patrol was based on a...
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1937
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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1936
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A Poverty Row western that has the rare distinction of being shot in color, director Jacques Jaccard's action-packed shoot...
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1936
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Based on the turn-of-the-century dimestore novels of Bert L. Standish (real name: William Patton Gilbert), this slow-moving...
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1936
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This western tells the story of a brave Army captain assigned to escort an important official's daughter through Indian...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when...
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1935
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Susan (ZaSu Pitts) is a plain-Jane wallflower who spends a day at Coney Island. Here she catches the eye of equally shy (and...
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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Rocky Rhodes was Buck Jones' first western vehicle for Universal Pictures. Evidently inheriting a leftover script from...
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1934
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A young auto mechanic gets a job with Three Points Airlines, and helps to get them a government mail contract in this action...
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1934
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His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the...
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1934
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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1932
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In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to...
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1932
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Produced by cameraman Burton King for ill-named Poverty Row company Big 4 Film Corp., this western starred laconic silent...
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1931
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A couple of holdovers from the silent era, Kenneth Harlan and Edna Murphy, starred in this below-average Universal serial...
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1931
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"Trigger Tricks", wrote "B"-western historian William K. Everson, "may well have set a record as the most talkative talkie...
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1930
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An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western...
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1930
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A bookish Easterner (Hoot Gibson) is shipped off to a Western ranch for toughening up. Once on the ranch, he falls for a...
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McLaren
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1929
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1929
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In the third of five inexpensive silent crime melodramas produced by Universal, former B-Western ace Bill Cody played...
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1929
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A typical interim serial, the ten-chapter Ace of Scotland Yard was released in both a silent version and as a part-talkie....
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Jarvis
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1929
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A socialite gets involved with a newspaper expose in this crime melodrama produced by Universal. When Pat Doran (Bill Cody...
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1929
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1929
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The audience got two Universal stars for the price of one with this rousing Western: Hoot Gibson and Fred Gilman. The two...
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1928
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Real-life flyboy Al Wilson starred in a string of successful silent aviation epics, of which Air Patrol was typical. Wilson...
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Sid Swivel
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1928
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Universal's sloppy-looking cowboy star Hoot Gibson plays the carefree son of the tough prison warden (Frank Beal) in this...
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1928
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Cowboy star Hoot Gibson had plenty of circus and rodeo experience under his belt by the time he starred in the tailor-made...
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1928
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In this, at times, hilarious silent, romantic comedy, love blossoms after a posterhanger has an highway mishap with a...
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1928
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A prize-fighter and a professional wrestler meet in a benefit match in this routine comedy-drama. Believing boxer Jack...
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1928
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1927
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Silent screen western hero Hoot Gibson played a private investigator hired by a rancher to get the goods on a disagreeable...
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1927
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Second-string Universal cowboy Fred Humes starred in this familiar silent Western about a returning war veteran who finds...
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1927
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Hayden Stevenson played the title role in this, one of Universal's most popular silent serials. A mystery villain, known only...
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Jarvis
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1927
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A low-budget outfit calling itself Hollywood Producers' Finance Association bought an old Buck Jones Western from Fox, put...
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1926
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The oft-filmed Oklahoma land rush took center stage once again in this lavish 15-chapter Universal Western serial starring...
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1925
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Lower-echelon silent Western star Neal Hart both directed and starred in this unusual oater dealing with cliff-dwelling...
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1923
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In this very slight comedy Western, hero Ned Underwood (William Fairbanks) goes undercover as a dishwasher on a ranch in...
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1922
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This routine Western programmer has all the usual elements -- the stolen mine, the quick-on-the-draw hero, the wicked villain...
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1922
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Universal's top serial queen, Grace Cunard was all set to start this sequel to the popular Elmo the Mighty (1919) when felled...
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1920
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Elmo Lincoln, the screen's first Tarzan, plays both the hero and the villain's henchman in this serial released in 18...
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1920
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