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Director: Sam Wood    More Info
Starring: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor, Jean Hagen, Bruce Cowling, Leon Ames, John McIntire, Chief Thundercloud, Pat Moriarity

 Frontier scout Ward Kinsman (Robert Taylor) is told to rescue Mary Carlyle (Marta Mitrovich) who is being held by the Apaches in Arizona Territory. After refusing the order, Ward relents when Mary's beautiful sister Ann Duverall (Arlene Dahl) asks him to find Mary. Ward joins U.S. Cavalry Captain Ben Lorrison (John Hodiak) in the search, and a bloody gun fight ensues. Mary is rescued, but not without the loss of lives.

Director: George Sidney    More Info
Starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, James Harrison, Mae Clarke

 This film features Irving Berlin songs "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." It is the story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley's (Betty Hutton) life in Buffalo Bill's (Louis Calhern) Wild West Show and her romance with the show's star sharpshooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel).

Director: Samuel Fuller    More Info
Starring: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi, Vladimir Sokoloff, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler Jr., Tristram Coffin, Robin Short, Barbara Woodell

 Nineteenth-century entrepreneur swindler James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) has big plans to ignore Spanish land grants and purchase Arizona for his own selfish interests.

Director: Oliver Drake    More Info
Starring: Sunset Carson, Pat Starling, Al Terr, Lee Roberts, Jack Baxley, Richard Bartell, Forrest Matthews, Don Gray, Pat Gleason, Stephen Keyes

 There's a smallpox scare in Quarzville, but it's just a ploy by the gad guys who want the vein of gold on a nearby ranch. Sunset (Sunset Carson) takes care of the problem and then rides off into the sunset.

Director: William Witney    More Info
Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers, Leo Cleary, Clifton Young, Stuart Randall, John Hamilton, Edmund Cobb, Rex Lease

 Uranium ore is missing, and the mine owner has been killed. Insurance investigator Roy Rogers comes to town working undercover and posing as an out-of-work cowboy. He finds a job working for Craig Bennett's (Grant Withers) Coronado Power and Light Company. His old pal Sparrow Biggle (Pat Brady) works at the power company as an aide to Bennett's secretary Pam Reynolds (Dale Evans). While on the trail of the thieves, Roy uncovers the culprits, but he must head off the thieves before their airplane getaway. Meanwhile, Roy and Pam find time for romance. Songs include "Got No Time for the Blues," "Bells of Coronado," and "Save a Smile for a Rainy Day."

Director: John English    More Info
Starring: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Don Beddoe, Hugh O'Brian, Gregg Barton, Robert J. Wilke, James Millican, Don Reynolds, Harry Harvey

 Gene Autry has just been appointed sheriff when he is forced to arrest his good friend Jack Beaumont (Hugh O'Brian) for the murder of Jack's father Judge Beaumont (Roy Gordon). Gene is convinced that Jack is innocent, and the way to prove it is to find the real killers. So, Gene and his sidekick Mike Rawley (Pat Buttram) follow the trail that leads to Rocky Morgan (James Millican) and Amos Rayburn (Don Beddoe). The film features good stunt riding by young Don Reynolds.

Director: John English    More Info
Starring: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Kenne Duncan, Alan Hale Jr., Gregg Barton, Edward Norris, Tom London, Steve Darrell

 Set in the current time, once again Gene Autry and his sidekick Mike (Pat Buttram) are on the trail of bank robbers. This time they are pursuing Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas, and, after many twists and turns, Gene fights Bartlett on a runaway train and captures him.

Director: Rudolph Mate    More Info
Starring: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Tom Tully, Milburn Stone, Peter Hanson, Selena Royle, John Berkes

 Choya (Alan Ladd) impersonates the kidnapped son of the Lavery family who has been missing for 25 years. However, his life changes when he is with his "new family," and he ends up risking his own life to rescue their real son–missing since he was five years old–from the clutches of a Mexican bandit.

Director: Delmer Davis    More Info
Starring: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Will Geer, Jay Silverheels, Basil Ruysdael, Joyce Mackenzie, Arthur Hunnicutt, Iron Eyes Cody, Jack Lee

 Army scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) and Apache chief Cochise (Jeff Chandler) become friends in an effort to establish peace between the homesteaders and the Indians. Chandler won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Cochise. This film is one of the early movies that sympathizes with the Native American cause.

Director: Edwin L. Marin    More Info
Starring: Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Ian MacDonald, Chief Thundercloud, Alan Hale, Luther Crockett, Walter Coy, Charles Evans

 When gun salesman Steve Farrell (Randolph Scott) loses his guns during a prison escape, he tracks down the escaped convict and puts an end to his killing spree.

Director: John Farrow    More Info
Starring: Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Harry Carey Jr., Frank Faylen, Hope Emerson, Philip Van Zandt, Ian Wolfe, Taylor Holmes

 Set in the era of homesteading–allowed by government land grants following the Civil War–this story has hopeful settlers relying on aid from an ex-gunslinger who comes to their aid.

Director: John English    More Info
Starring: Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Harry Shannon, Jock Mahoney, Clark "Buddy" Burroughs, Harry Harvey, Steve Darrell, Ted Mapes, Sandy Sanders, Ralph Sanford

 A range war rages, and it's due to Gene Autry protecting himself from rustlers with barbed wire around his ranch. All is well when Gene demonstrates that the wire is safe.

Director: Lewis D. Collins    More Info
Starring: Jim Bannon, Don Reynolds, Don Haggerty, John Hart, Emmett Lynn, Karen Randle, Marin Sais, Marshall Reed, Forrest Taylor, Lou Nova

 In this fourth, and final, film starring Jim Bannon as Red Ryder, Red and sidekick Little Beaver (Don Kay Reynolds), along with Steve (Don Haggerty) who had saved Red's life, take on a crooked fight promoter while rooting out the killer of Red's father.

Director: Stuart Heisler    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton, Leif Erickson, Antonio Moreno, Jerome Cowan, Will Wright, Monte Blue

 Blade Hollister (Gary Cooper) is a former Confederate officer out to avenge the destruction of his family's Georgia home. He switches identities and tracks down the perpetrators.

Director: Lew Landers    More Info
Starring: George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Phillip Reed, Noah Beery Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Chief Thundercloud, Addison Richards, Robert Barrat, Erik Rolf, Billy Wilkerson

 This film was made five years before Disney made Davy Crockett a national craze. This story involves the nephew and namesake of Davy Crockett (George Montgomery), who is a U.S. military scout, and his cohort Red Hawk (Philip Reed). They lead a wagon train through the hostile Indian Territory, but someone in Crockett's military unit is spying on the wagon trains and tipping off the Indians who then attack. At first, Red Hawk is suspected, but he is vindicated when the real culprit is revealed.

Director: Anthony Mann    More Info
Starring: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams, Spring Byington, James Millican, Harry Antrim

 This average flick started a trend to present Native Americans as the "good guys" and whites as the "bad guys." Lance (Robert Taylor) returns to his tribal lands after the Civil War to find that his people are being persecuted by whites who want the land. He must become a renegade to right the wrongs.

Director: Lewis Foster    More Info
Starring: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Frank Faylen, Eduardo Noriega, Grandon Rhodes, Walter Reed, Margaret Martin

 During the Mexican Revolution, the French have plans to invade the U.S., so the U.S. government orders agents into Mexico to watch for evidence of an invasion of Texas. Union spy Whitney Randolph (Dennis O'Keefe) and Texas Ranger Todd Croyden (John Payne) head to Mexico where they meet Madeline (Rhonda Fleming), and Croyden falls in love with her. But, many problems develop.

Director: George Marshall    More Info
Starring: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman, Eric Blore, John Alexander, Joseph Vitale, Norma Varden, Oliver Blake

 In this remake of "Ruggles of Red Gap," slapstick reigns as Bob Hope and Lucille Ball cavort in this story about early days in New Mexico. American actor Arthur Tyler (Hope) pretends to be a British butler and is hired by social climbing Agatha Floud (Ball) and her mother Effie (Lea Penman). They bring Arthur back to their ranch in New Mexico where the townsfolk believe that Arthur represents nobility, and he reaches celebrity status. He even keeps up the facade when President Teddy Roosevelt (John Alexander) arrives, and the citizens hope to achieve statehood for New Mexico.

Director: Louis King    More Info
Starring: Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, John Russell, John Emery, George Cleveland, Regis Toomey, Paul E. Burns

 Frenchie Fontaine Dawson (Shelley Winters) leaves New Orleans and returns to her childhood home in the West and opens a gambling casino as part of her efforts to find the murderers of her father.

Director: Anthony Mann    More Info
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka

 Cattle baron T.C. Jeffords (Walter Huston) and his daughter, Vance (Barbara Stanwyck), become estranged and fight over his New Mexico Territory ranch, "The Furies." Vance joins forces with her lover Rip Darrow (Wendell Corey) in a powerful psychological struggle between two strong personalities that leads to tragic results.

Director: Henry King    More Info
Starring: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier, Verna Felton, Ellen Corby, Richard Jaeckel, Alan Hale Jr.

 Gunfighter Jimmie Ringo (Gregory Peck) wants to settle down and rekindle the love he and his wife, Peggy (Helen Westcott), once shared. While waiting for Peggy in a saloon, Ringo learns that he cannot escape his past.

Director: Alan Le May    More Info
Starring: John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer, Lois Butler, Kristine Miller, Basil Ruysdael, Jack Elam, Dave Kashner, Clem Fuller, Frank Cordell

 A young cowboy, Cooncat (John Drew Barrymore), is suspected of murder and held prisoner on a ranch. But, Cooncat has been set up by the real killers who have returned and are seeking revenge on those involved in a range war that left them wounded.

Director: John English    More Info
Starring: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Kirby Grant, Philip Van Zandt, Chief Thundercloud, Kenne Duncan, James Griffith, G. Pat Collins, Roy Gordon

 After the Civil War, reb cavalryman Gene Autry helps a former Yank bring peace between the Indians and the settlers.

Director: Ray Enright    More Info
Starring: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis, Richard Arlen, Richard Long, Dewey Martin, Richard Egan, James Best

 During the Civil War, a young Jessie James (Audie Murphy) and his gang, team up with Quantrill's Raiders, led by Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), to fight the Yankees. When it is almost too late, Jesse realizes that Quantrill is up to no good and, after a confrontation, rides off with his gang.

Director: Ray Enright    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown, Ian MacDonald, Monte Blue, Charles Irwin, Paul E. Burns, Lester Matthews

 Morgan Lane (Errol Flynn) is an Australian sheepherder who arrives in the Montana territory where he plans to graze his sheep. But, cattle ranchers–including Maria Singleton (Alexis Smith) and Rodney Ackroyd (Douglas Kennedy)–are already there and lead the neighboring cattlemen against the intruders. Battles ensue. But, later, Morgan and Maria find time for love and agree that cattle ranchers and sheepherders are able to live together.