After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his
men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same
town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating
matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.
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Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Writers: Endre Bohem (screenplay), Eric Norden (screenplay)
Stars: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty
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The Sorenson family is massacred, apparently by Indians. On
the site of the killing, a town, Gold Hill grows up, run by a group of
businessmen. Years later, El Rojo, alias the last surviving Sorenson arrives,
bringing the truth about the massacre, and revenge.
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Director: Leopoldo Savona (as Leo Coleman)
Writers: Mario Casacci, Rate Furlan (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Harrison, Nieves Navarro, Piero Lulli
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Braddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of
the town of Two Arrows. He also represents a group of Mexican outlaws led by
Valiente. Braddock plans an important robbery with only two young men, Loring
and Parker, standing in the way of the bandits.
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Director: Fernando Cerchio (as Fred Ringold)
Writers: Lorenzo Gicca Palli (story) (as Enzo Gicca Palli),
Lorenzo Gicca Palli (dialogue) (as Enzo Gicca Palli)
Stars: Peter Lee Lawrence, Luis Dávila, Tano Cimarosa
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In 1909, there is a raid on the McCandles family ranch by a
gang of ruthless outlaws led by John Fain. They massacre the ranch hands and
kidnap Little Jake, the grandson, leaving a ransom note and heading back for
Mexico, where they have been hiding out. Martha, the head of the family, is
offered the help of both the state militia and the Texas Rangers in hunting the
gang. She replies that this will be "a harsh and unpleasant kind of
business and will require an extremely harsh and unpleasant kind of person to
see it through." In consequence, she sends for her estranged husband, the
aging Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, a near-legendary gunfighter who
wanders the west with his Rough Collie, simply named Dog.
When Jake arrives by train, he and Martha discuss a plan to
take the ransom to the kidnappers, a million dollars in a big red strongbox,
although Jake warns that, "Pay or not, we run the risk of never seeing the
boy again". Then his son Michael rides up on a motorcycle, bringing word
that he has seen the kidnappers in the Chilicothe Canyon. The Texas Ranger
captain is present and offers the services of his men, equipped with three REO
touring cars. They, however, are ambushed and their cars put out of action.
Jake, preferring the old ways, has followed on horseback, accompanied by an old
Apache associate, Sam Sharpnose. He is now joined by his sons, Michael and
James, with whom his relations are tense because of his desertion of the family
ten years before.
That night, Fain rides into their camp to make arrangements
for the handover, telling Jake that they will “send the boy's body back in a
basket" if anything should go wrong. Both men deny any personal stake in
the business, each claiming to be "just a messenger boy". The family
party crosses into Mexico the next day and checks into a hotel. Knowing that
they have been followed by another gang intent on stealing the strongbox, Jake sets
a trap for them and they are all killed. During the attack, the chest is
blasted open, revealing clipped bundles of newspaper instead of money. Michael
and James become suspicious of Jake and the three slug it out, but Jake assures
them that it was both his and Martha's idea. James fears for Little Jake's
life, but Jake tells them they'll have to go in anyway.
A thunderstorm breaks and Pop Dawson, one of the outlaws,
arrives to give them the details of the exchange. He warns them that a sniper
will have a gun trained on the boy in case of a double-cross. Jake arranges for
Michael to follow after them to take care of the sharp shooter and convinces
Dawson that he had been killed in the fight. At the hideout, Jake is led in
alone to where Fain and four other gang members are waiting, one of them
holding a shotgun on the boy. Jake tosses the key of the chest to Fain, who
opens it up to discover that he has been tricked.
Fain orders his brother Will to kill the boy but he is shot
by Jake. Dog is wounded by the sniper and Jake is wounded in the leg before
Michael kills him. Jake tells the boy to escape but Little Jake is hunted by
the machete wielding John Goodfellow, who has already hacked Sam to death. Dog
comes to the rescue and is himself killed before Big Jake arrives and impales
Goodfellow on a pitchfork. Fain rides up and is preparing to finish off the two
of them when Michael arrives from where he had been waiting in ambush and
blasts him off his horse. Before he dies, Fain asks, "Who are you?"
When Jake answers, "Jacob McCandles," Fain says, "I thought you
was dead," as have other characters during the course of the film. “Not
hardly," Jake replies.
With Little Jake rescued, and the broken family bonded, they
prepare to head home.
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Directors: George Sherman, John Wayne (uncredited)
Writers: Harry Julian Fink (story and screenplay), Rita M.
Fink (story and screenplay)
Stars: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara
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A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American Western film starring
Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein. Based on a short story by Dorothy
M. Johnson, "A Man Called Horse", published in 1950 in Collier's
magazine and again in 1968 in Johnson's book Indian Country. The basic story
was used in a 1958 episode of the TV show Wagon Train titled "A Man Called
Horse". Partially spoken in Sioux, the film tells the history of an
English aristocrat, John Morgan, who is captured by the Sioux people.
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Storyline A Man Called Horse 1970
During the early 1800s, English Lord John Morgan is hunting
in the Dakotas but he is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan's guides
are killed but he is spared by Sioux chief Yellow Hand who marvels at Morgan's
blond hair.Brought to Yellow Hand's tribal village, Morgan has to endure
physical abuse and mockery at the hands of women and children who consider
Morgan to be a wild horse.Restrained by a rope around his neck, Morgan is given
as a gift to an old squaw, Buffalo Cow Head, to be her slave and help her with
daily chores.In the village, Morgan meets Running Deer, the beautiful young
sister of chief Yellow Hand.Morgan witnesses the traditional courtship process
when Running Deer is asked in marriage by a tribe member who presents Yellow
Hand with gifts in return for his sister's hand in marriage.Morgan starts to
fall in love with her.Also in the village is half-breed, Batise, whose mother
was Sioux and father was French.Batise becomes Morgan's friend and
interpreter.Batise advises Morgan against escaping citing his own escape
attempt when he was re-captured and hamstrung by the savage Sioux.Despite these
warnings, Morgan tries to escape several times but he is re-captured.He decides
to bid his time for another escape opportunity.When a rival Shoshone war party
approaches the Sioux village, Morgan kills two of the Shoshone scouts, winning
the respect of his Sioux captors.Instead of escaping, Morgan plans to learn the
ways of the Sioux, become a warrior and gain his place among them.But this
would require much more than killing a few Shoshone scouts.Lord John Morgan's
true ordeal is just beginning.
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Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writers: Jack DeWitt (screenplay) (as Jack De Witt), Dorothy
M. Johnson (story)
Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon
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Gunfighters is a 1947 American Western Cinecolor film
directed by George Waggner and starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and
Bruce Cabot. Based on the novel Twin Sombreros by Zane Grey (the sequel of
Knights of the Range) and with a screenplay by The Searchers author Alan Le
May, the film is about a gunfighter who lays down his guns after being forced
to shoot his best friend, and decides to become a cowhand on a ranch. The film
was released in the United Kingdom as The Assassin.
Storyline The Assassin | Gunfighters 1947
Trying to put his life as a gunfighter behind him, Brazos
Kane (Randolph Scott) goes off to join old pal Bob Tyrell at the Inskip ranch,
only to see him gunned down by an unseen shooter.
Brazos takes the body to the Banner ranch, but the ruthless
Banner (Griff Barnett) has him arrested for the murder by Yount (Grant
Withers), a corrupt deputy. Brazos has the bullet that killed his friend and
slips it to Jane Banner (Dorothy Hart), the rancher's daughter.
Inskip (Charley Grapewin) frees him before Brazos can be
unjustly tried and hanged. Brazos makes the mistake of trusting Bess (Barbara
Britton), sister of Jane, but she is in love with ranch foreman Bard Macky
(Bruce Cabot), the man who killed Tyrell.
Brazos refuses to strap on his guns, but Yount (Grant
Withers) and hired gun Orcutt (Forrest Tucker) try to ambush him or run him
off. Inskip is murdered in cold blood and so is young cowhand Johnny O'Neil
(John Miles), the last straw. Brazos arms himself and goes after the bad guys,
wounding Yount several times to make him talk, then calling out Orcutt and Bard
for a final showdown, with Jane's help.
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Director: George Waggner
Writers: Alan Le May (screenplay), Zane Grey (adapted from
Zane Grey's novel "Twin Sombreros")
Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart
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Warlock is a 1959 western film directed by Edward Dmytryk
and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Richard Widmark, and Dorothy Malone.
It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by American author Oakley
Hall.
Fonda portrays Clay Blaisedell, a freelance marshal in the
fictional town of Warlock with implacable methods of dealing with
troublemakers. The film has a subplot centering around Blaisedell's club-footed
assistant, Tom Morgan. Content to stay in the background, Morgan has sublimated
his relationships and ambition into a warped devotion to Blaisedell, the only
person Morgan thinks does not look down on him for his disability. A woman
Morgan rejected in favor of his life as a sidekick soon arrives and seeks
vengeance by setting the townsfolk against Blaisedell. Far from asserting
himself, the marshal plans to quit and get married, much to Morgan's disgust. Morgan
remonstrates that his skill as a gunman is far superior to his conventionally
heroic friend's, and is the only thing that has been keeping the honorable
Blaisedell alive. Blaisedell attempts to stop a spurned Morgan running amok,
and with ulterior motives Morgan challenges Blaisedell to a duel in front of
the watching town.
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The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading
the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal.
When Blaisdell appears, he is accompanied by his friend Tom Morgan, a
club-footed gambler who is unusually protective of Blaisdell's life and
reputation. However, Johnny Gannon, one of the thugs who has reformed,
volunteered to accept the post of official deputy sheriff in rivalry to Blaisdell;
and a woman arrives in town accusing Blaisdell and Morgan of having murdered
her fiancé. The stage is set for a complex set of moral and personal conflicts.
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Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writers: Robert Alan Aurthur (screenplay), Oakley Hall
(novel)
Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
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