 Annie Get Your Gun 1950  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Family / Western / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, James Harrison, Mae Clarke, John Hamilton, Anne O'Neal, William Tannen, Frank Wilcox, Chief Yowlachie
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).
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Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory 1952  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Cast: Clayton Moore, Slim Andrews, Rodd Redwing, Sharon Dexter, Eddie Phillips, Tom Hubbard, Chief Yowlachie, Chief Thundercloud, Charlie Hughes, Helena Dare
Buffalo Bill (Clayton Moore of "Lone Ranger" fame) helps his Indian friends rid themselves of land-grabbers.
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The Last Outpost 1951 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Cavalry Charge
Director: Lewis Foster
Cast: Rhonda Fleming, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams, Peter Hansen, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh Beaumont, John Ridgely, Lloyd Corrigan, Charles Evans, Iron Eyes Cody, Chief Yowlachie, James Burke, Terry Frost, Harold Goodwin
Brothers–Capt. Vance Britten and Col. Jeb Britton (Ronald Reagan and Bruce Bennett)–who fought on opposing sides during the Civil War find they must join forces against their common enemy: the Indians.
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The Paleface 1948 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Charles Trowbridge, Jeff York, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson, Jackie Searl, Joseph Vitale, Clem Bevans, Stanley Andrews, Wade Crosby, Chief Yowlachie, Iron Eyes Cody, John Maxwell
The song "Buttons and Bows" won the Academy Award for Best Song in this very entertaining comedy about the romance and marriage of Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) and frontier dentist "Painless" Peter Potter (Bob Hope) who she meets while investigating the selling of rifles to Indians.
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Red River 1948  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Chief Yowlachie, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Hal Taliaferro, Shelley Winters
A cattle baron, Tom Dunson (John Wayne), has built up a huge estate, but trouble brews when his adoptive son Matt (Montgomery Clift)–who Tom had rescued as a boy (Mickey Kuhn) from an Indian raid–is not quite ready to put up with the hardships involved in moving cattle to the railroad in Abilene. Matt has just returned from the Civil War and stampedes and pressures of the cattle drive on a difficult route cause tension for Matt, and he is driven to the point of confrontation with his father. One of the best Westerns of the 1940s.
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Rose Marie 1954   N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, Joan Taylor, Ray Collins, Chief Yowlachie, James Logan, Thurl Ravenscroft
This is another remake of the 1924 Rudolf Friml operetta and is the first musical to use the CinemaScope format, which it does to good advantage. Rose Marie (Ann Blyth) is a lovely French-Canadian lass who is after trapper James Duval (Fernando Lamas). James, in turn, is being pursued by mountie Mike Malone (Howard Keel). Mike uses Rose to help him get James and, in the process, falls in love with her. 1 User Review
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The Santa Fe Trail 1930  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Law Rides West
Director: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf
Cast: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Hooper Atchley, Luis Alberni, Lee Shumway, Chief Yowlachie, Blue Cloud, Chief Standing Bear, Jack Byron
Sheep rancher Stan Hollister (Richard Arlen) is falsely accused of murdering an Indian, but two children saw the real killer, which also aids Stan in stopping a land grabber.
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| 1. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
2. Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
3. The Last Outpost (1951)
aka: Cavalry Charge
4. The Painted Hills (1951)
aka: Lassie: The Painted Hills
5. The Paleface (1948)
6. Red River (1948)
7. Rose Marie (1954)
8. The Santa Fe Trail (1930)
aka: The Law Rides West
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