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1. Open Range (1927)
60 min | Western
Hired ranch-hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: Betty Bronson, Lane Chandler, Fred Kohler, Bernard Siegel
Votes: 32
2. Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Drama, Family
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell
Votes: 409
3. Melody Ranch (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Western
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane
Votes: 257
4. Riders of the Purple Sage (1931)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for his now-grown niece. He immediately gets ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: George O'Brien, Marguerite Churchill, Noah Beery, Yvonne Pelletier
Votes: 101
5. Nevada (1927)
70 min | Western
A gunslinger looking for a quiet place to settle down becomes entangled in a romantic triangle and the hunt for a gang of cattle rustlers.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, William Powell, Philip Strange
Votes: 139
6. The Bargain (1914)
70 min | Western
The bandit Jim Stokes, wanting to go straight and settle down with his new bride, strikes a bargain with the sheriff for his freedom.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: William S. Hart, J. Frank Burke, Clara Williams, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 252
7. The Light of Western Stars (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »
Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey
Votes: 175
8. Dude Cowboy (1941)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Federal agent Terry McVey, posing as a guest at the Silver Bar Dude Ranch, investigates the disappearance of noted engraver Frank Adams who is being forced to produce counterfeit bills by ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Whitley, Lee 'Lasses' White
Votes: 154
9. Wolf Lowry (1917)
50 min | Western
Tom "Wolf" Lowry, the owner of the Bar Z ranch, tolerates no intruders into his life. When he hears that settlers have entered his valley, he goes to confront them but has a change of heart... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Margery Wilson, Aaron Edwards, William Fairbanks
Votes: 74
10. Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Esra Kincaid takes land by force, and having taken the Espinoza land, he sets his sight on the Castro rancho U.S. Government Agent Kearney holds him off until the cavalry shows up and he ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Jane Darwell, Dick La Reno, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.09M
11. Durand of the Bad Lands (1925)
50 min | Crime, Western
Upon deciding to move to Mexico, Dick Durand sells his ranch and belongings to Sheriff Clem Allison, and Pete Garson, one of Allison's henchman, uses Durand's regalia to commit a number of ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Buck Jones, Marian Nixon, Malcolm Waite, Fred DeSilva
Votes: 25
12. Range Law (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Western
Having escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Frank Mayo, Aileen Manning
Votes: 37
13. To the Last Man (1923)
70 min | Drama, Western
Between ranchers and sheepherders there is a feud. Jean Isbel and Ellen Jorth are in love. Unfortunately, each of them belongs to one of the parties. That complicates the live of both Ellen and Jean very much.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Robert Edeson
Votes: 46
14. When a Man's a Man (1924)
70 min | Western
Helen Wakefield refuses the marriage proposal of Lawrence Knight, a rich lounge lizard, and advises him to improve himself by developing manly traits. He travels out west, changes his name ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert Frazer, June Marlowe
15. The Range Boss (1917)
Western
Out of the elite and civilized east into the rough and primitive west there comes a little party which judged the desert must be larger than all New York, and their trail a little longer ... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jack Gardner, Ruth King, Carl Stockdale
Votes: 14
16. Partners of the Sunset (1922)
50 min | Western
Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's offer to live on his Texas ranch, which is... See full summary »
Director: Robin H. Townley | Stars: Allene Ray, Robert Frazer, Mildred Bright, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 16
17. The Valley of the Moon (1914)
Drama
At the opening of the play Billy Roberts is successively a pugilist and a teamster, and Saxon, a young girl, works in a laundry. They meet at a Weazel Park picnic, the afternoon of the ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Jack Conway, Myrtle Stedman, Al Ernest Garcia, Rhea Haines
Votes: 23
18. Desert Gold (I) (1919)
70 min | Western
Hunting the desert for his daughter, Jonas Warren finds the man who took her away, who then produces a marriage certificate to pacify Warren's anger. After the husband finds a gold mine and... See full summary »
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: E.K. Lincoln, Edward Coxen, Lawson Butt, Margery Wilson
19. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924)
60 min | Western
After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who killed his homesteader foster father, Pop Watkins. Bud finds refuge from the sheriff at the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Gladys Hulette, Gertrude Astor, Tully Marshall
20. Below the Border (1942)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western
A gang of rustlers blackmails young Joe Collins into helping them, Sandy poses undercover as a janitor in the leader's saloon, and Buck impersonates a well-known crooked fence.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Linda Brent
Votes: 133
21. The Phantom Plainsmen (1942)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Western
It is 1937, but the life out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Captain Marvin herding horses which he sells to Kurt Redman. Marvin will not sell any ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 76
22. Blue Blood and Red (1916)
50 min | Comedy, Western
When spoiled playboy Algernon DePont gets thrown out of Harvard, his father throws him off the family estate. Algernon proceeds to take his butler and drive out West looking for adventure. ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Walsh, Martin Kinney, Doris Pawn, James A. Marcus
Votes: 14
23. The Vanishing Pioneer (1928)
60 min | Drama, Western
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople. Rancher John Ballard leads the settlers in their... See full summary »
Director: John Waters | Stars: Jack Holt, Sally Blane, William Powell, Fred Kohler
Votes: 25
24. The Woman He Loved (1922)
50 min | Drama
Suffering persecution, Russian Jews Nathan Levinsky, his wife, Esther, and his son, David, escape their homeland for the U.S., where Nathan ekes out a feeble existence as a peddler. Esther ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: William V. Mong, Marcia Manon, A. Edward Sutherland, Mary Wynn
25. Nearly a Lady (1915)
Comedy
That a fork was ever meant for anything but spearing bread never dawned on Frederica Calhoun until the arrival at her father's big Montana ranch of Lord Cecil Grosvenor, a prospective buyer... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Elsie Janis, Frank Elliott, Owen Moore, Myrtle Stedman
26. Code of the West (1925)
70 min | Western
Young and head-strong New York flapper Georgie May Stockwell,, visits the Thurman ranch and vamps every man on the place, including Cal Thurman, who falls hard for the pert easterner. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Mabel Ballin, Charles Ogle
Votes: 19
27. Two Moons (1920)
50 min | Western
In Wyoming, a feud is going on between the sheep herders and the cattlemen for control of the grazing lands. Five sheep-men have been found murdered, and each has had a mysterious stone ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Buck Jones, Carol Holloway, Gus Saville, Bert Sprotte
28. Brass Commandments (1923)
50 min | Western
Stephen "Flash" Lanning returns from the east to help a sheriff out west rid the town of cattle rustlers. He falls for a pretty hotel clerk named Gloria Hallowell, but she believes he in ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: William Farnum, Wanda Hawley, Tom Santschi, Claire Adams
29. Renegades of the West (1932)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Tom Bagby has gone to prison to learn of his father's killer. Returning, he looks for Curly Bogard who he thinks did it. Keeping his identity a secret, he gets a job on Curly's ranch. Just ... See full summary »
Director: Casey Robinson | Stars: Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Betty Furness, Jim Mason
Votes: 100
30. Shod with Fire (1920)
50 min | Drama, Western
Ann Lytton arrives in a small Arizona town just as ranchman Bruce Baynard brings a man into the hotel who is unconscious from drink. The man proves to be Ann's husband Ned, whom Bruce takes... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: William Russell, Helen Ferguson, Betty Schade, Robert Cain
31. Pardon My Nerve! (1922)
50 min | Mystery, Western
A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He ... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Buck Jones, Eileen Percy, Mae Busch, G. Raymond Nye
32. The Hurricane Kid (1925)
60 min | Western
The Hurricane Kid (Hoot Gibson) runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter (William A. Steele), when Joan Langdon (Marion Nixon) shows an obvious preference for The Kid, and... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Marian Nixon, William Steele, Arthur Mackley
33. Pinto (1920)
50 min | Comedy, Western
When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Mabel Normand, Cullen Landis, Edward Jobson, Edythe Chapman
34. An Indian Sunbeam (1912)
Short, Romance, Western
The accidental overturning of their "prairie schooner" kills a settler and his wife and leaves their little baby girl, Sunbeam, alone in the world. Discovered by Big Wolf, an Indian brave ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: True Boardman, Edna Sharpe, Fred Church, Brinsley Shaw
35. The Man Next Door (1923)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Wealthy cattleman Colonel Wright moves east with his foreman, Curley, and his daughter, Bonnie Bell, to give her the benefits of education and city living. They take up residence next to ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: David Torrence, Frank Sheridan, James Morrison, Alice Calhoun
36. Fighting Fury (1924)
Passed | 61 min | Western
A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.
Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Helen Holmes, Fred Kohler, Duke R. Lee
Votes: 18
37. All Man (1916)
50 min | Western
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the... See full summary »
Director: Emile Chautard | Stars: Robert Warwick, Mollie King, Gerda Holmes, Louis R. Grisel
38. Ridgeway of Montana (1924)
50 min | Western
Cattle owner Buck Ridgeway captures a rustler band, but the leader, Pelton, escapes. Buck is accompanied to the city to market his cattle by Aline, his neighbor's daughter, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, Herbert Fortier, Lew Meehan
39. The Primal Law (1921)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A stirring tale of a plotter's efforts to force cattle ranchers to sell their holdings cheap, while keeping them ignorant of the fact that the land contains great oil wealth.
Director: Bernard J. Durning | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Mary Thurman, Harry Dunkinson, Philo McCullough
40. Firebrand Trevison (1920)
50 min | Western
Firebrand Trevison owns the Diamond K Ranch, which the railroad is anxious to acquire. To execute the purchase, Rosalind Benham, the railroad president's daughter, her aunt and Benham's ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Buck Jones, Winifred Westover, Martha Mattox, Stanton Heck
41. The Loafer (1912)
Short, Western
Joe Simmons, the town loafer, is warned by the ranch boys that he had better get to work and provide for his family on the penalty of a severe horse whipping if he does not do so. After ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Mackley | Stars: Arthur Mackley, Julia Mackley, Marguerite Todd, Harry Todd
42. Going Some (1920)
50 min | Comedy, Sport
Upon observing the adoration that track star Culver Covington receives, his friend, J. Wallingford Speed, decides to impress Helen Blake by also posing as a sprinter. Meanwhile, when ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Cullen Landis, Helen Ferguson, Lillian Hall, Lillian Langdon
43. The Night Horsemen (1921)
49 min | Drama, Western
The day before he is to marry Kate Cumberland, Whistling Dan disappears, following the wild geese. His trail brings him to a saloon where Jerry Strann forces him into a fight, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Tom Mix, May Hopkins, Harry Lonsdale, Joseph Bennett
44. The Ranchman's Trust (1912)
Short, Crime, Western
Jim Boulder, a ranchman, receives a letter one morning, from his old friend and chum, George Stapleton, a New Yorker, saying his son Elliott, is coming out to the ranch to pull himself ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Arthur Mackley, Fred Church
45. Lying Lips (1921)
70 min | Drama
A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
Director: John Griffith Wray | Stars: House Peters, Florence Vidor, Joseph Kilgour, Margaret Livingston
46. The Ruse of the Rattler (1921)
Western
Henry Morgan advances the money to defend Bud Sanderson who is arrested for stealing cattle, in return for securing an option on the Sanderson ranch. Morgan hires "The Rattler" to evict the... See full summary »
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: J.P. McGowan, Lillian Rich, Jean Perry, Gordon McGregor
47. Her Five-Foot Highness (1920)
50 min | Drama, Western
When Texas ranch owner Ellen inherits the estate of her long-lost uncle, the Duke of Wilshire, her unscrupulous attorney, Wesley Saunders, who has been plotting to seize control of her ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Franklin | Stars: Edith Roberts, Virginia Ware, Ogden Crane, Harold Miller
48. The Quitter (I) (1916)
60 min | Western
The miners at Paradise Gulch are bored. In a session at the "Three Cheers" saloon, owned by Seth Moore, they decide that the trouble with their existence is the fact that there are no women... See full summary »
Director: Charles Horan | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite Skirvin, Paul Everton, Charles Prince
49. All Around Frying Pan (1925)
60 min | Western
Roaming cowboy Bart Andrews is arrested for vagrancy by a sheriff who needs men for the state road gang. On the way to jail, the sheriff stops off at a rodeo, allowing Bart the chance to ... See full summary »
Director: David Kirkland | Stars: Fred Thomson, James A. Marcus, William Courtright, John Lince
50. Was He a Coward? (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama, Western
Norris gets a job as a ranch hand and falls in love with Kate, the rancher's daughter. The jealous foreman challenges him to a fight, but he refuses, and Kate thinks he's a coward. When ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Joseph Graybill, W. Chrystie Miller, Blanche Sweet
Votes: 14