CINEVAULT: Westerns
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Count Three and Pray
After fighting for the Union during the Civil War, Luke Fargo (Van Heflin) is greeted with resentment when he returns home to his small southern town. Luke has a reputation as a rogue, but he's reinvented himself as a man of God and plans to fix up the town's damaged church. Recalling their romantic past, Georgina Decrais (Allison Hayes) tries to reclaim Luke. But, to the dismay of some suspicious townspeople, he concentrates on mentoring an unsophisticated young woman, Lissy (Joanne Woodward).
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Montana Territory
A cowgirl vigilante (Wanda Hendrix) proves to a deputy (Lon McCallister) that the sheriff (Preston Foster) is an outlaw.
Unknown Valley
Joe goes looking for his missing father in the desert, then strange villagers take him captive; he finds his father and plans to escape, taking with him a woman that he has fallen for.
Santa Fe
Three brothers become outlaws after the Civil War, while a fourth sibling goes to work for the railroad.
The Thrill Hunter
After lying about being a stuntman, a blowhard (Buck Jones) gets the chance to prove himself to a movie studio.
The Return of Daniel Boone
The scout's grandson (Bill Elliott) foils land-grabbers; his sidekick (Dub Taylor) flirts with twins.
Massacre Canyon
A cavalry officer and two of his men set out to make sure that a shipment of guns safely reaches its destination.
Mackenna's Gold
Apaches, townsfolk, a Mexican bandit (Omar Sharif) and the cavalry follow a sheriff (Gregory Peck) to a mythical canyon of gold.
A Lawless Street
The honorable Calem Ware (Randolph Scott), marshal of the Wild West boomtown of Medicine Bend, attempts to defuse the simmering tensions in his rapidly growing and increasingly violent town, as a greedy businessman (Warner Anderson) hires a sinister black-gloved gunman (Michael Pate) to take care of his problems with the marshal for good. Meanwhile, a traveling song-and-dance troupe arrives in town, bearing Ware's lost love, Tally (Angela Lansbury), who holds the secret to his violent past.
The Nevadan
On his way to jail, bandit Tom Tanner (Forrest Tucker) escapes the law and is pursued by Andy Barclay (Randolph Scott), a federal marshal who believes that Tanner will lead him to a stash of stolen gold. Barclay changes horses at the ranch of Karen Galt (Dorothy Malone), planting the seeds of romance before following Tanner to a mine shaft where the stashed loot is hidden. But a gang of outlaws who also want the gold then arrives, forcing Tanner and Barclay to team up and fend them off together.
Hangman's Knot
Major Matt Stewart (Randolph Scott) leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a raid, targeting a wagon that is transporting Union gold. All the Union soldiers are killed except for one, who informs Stewart that the war had already ended a month ago. Stewart leads the troop into hiding, knowing they could face murder charges. After capturing a coach driven by nurse Molly Hull (Donna Reed), the soldiers try to evade a group of bandits chasing them to steal the gold.
Jubal
Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife (Valerie French) threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand (Rod Steiger) complicates matters by spreading lies.
The Texas Rangers
The Civil War has ended, the Union Army has pulled out, and now the Texas Rangers are needed once again to protect their state from harm. The newly reformed Rangers decide to take a chance by hiring a notorious outlaw Johnny Carver (George Montgomery). They offer the desperado amnesty for his previous crimes if he'll put his famous trigger finger to work for Texas. Carver agrees, but his new job won't be easy, as his old rival, the Sundance Kid (Ian MacDonald), is out for vengeance.
The Blazing Trail
A worthless gold mine leads the Durango Kid and a newspaperman on a trail marked by suspicion and deceit.
King of the Wild Horses
A mustang stallion runs swiftly to the rescue when the boy who befriended him is endangered.
Cowboy
A successful rancher, Tom Reese (Glenn Ford), forges a business venture with a Mexican landowner (Donald Randolph) but finds himself in a bind after squandering a lot of money at a hotel run by Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon). Frank has strong feelings for the Mexican's daughter (Anna Kashfi), and when he learns that Tom is in a tough spot, he exploits the situation to get closer to his potential paramour. Frank takes to horseback alongside Tom, and both are surprised by the results.
Western Code
Tim Barrett, a renowned lawman, rescues Patty from a ruffian and saves her brother from being lynched.
Jack McCall, Desperado
A lone gunslinger, Jack McCall (George Montgomery), bursts into a saloon and shoots dead the legendary Wild Bill Hickok (Douglas Kennedy). Arrested and put on trial, McCall recounts a twisted tale that paints Hickok as anything but heroic, explaining how Hickok and McCall's cousin Bat (James Seay) took over McCall's family's plantation, killed his parents and even framed him for crimes he didn't commit. McCall's cold-blooded killing of Hickok was warranted. Or was it?
Relentless
Framed for a murder he didn't commit, a cowboy hides with a traveling woman as he flees a sheriff and hunts for the real killer.
Land Raiders
An Arizona land-grabber (Telly Savalas) and his brother (George Maharis) renew their feud amid Army troops and Apaches.
Reprisal!
Frank Madden (Guy Madison), who is part Native American but passes as white, purchases a ranch in the small town of Kendall, Okla. When Frank moves in, he finds that the bigoted townspeople have recently let three brothers, who are also his neighbors, get away with the lynching murder of innocent Native Americans. As tensions between the townspeople and local Native Americans rise, Hank becomes torn between fighting against injustice and keeping his true identity a secret.
The Parson and the Outlaw
Billy the Kid (Anthony Dexter) retires from the outlaw life, fakes his own death and adopts the name William Bonney. Soon, William runs into Jack Slade (Sonny Tufts), a gun-toting stranger who is itching for a gunfight. Jack falls in with a group of thugs terrorizing William's town. The Rev. Jericho Jones (Buddy Rogers) exhorts William to defend the townspeople, and, when William's maid, Tonya (Marie Windsor), is beaten by the thugs, he grabs his pistol.
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Flaming arrows stop four ex-convicts searching a ghost town for their buried loot.
Stage to Tucson
Troubleshooters track Arizona stagecoaches hijacked for sale to the Confederacy.
The Law vs. Billy the Kid
After riding into New Mexico, William Bonney and Pat Garrett are hired by rancher John Tunstall. Bonney's hard work wins Tunstall over, but his romance with the old man's niece makes foreman Bob Ollinger jealous. Learning of Bonney's criminal past, Ollinger leads a posse against him that kills Tunstall instead. Bonney vows to avenge his boss' death, and his ensuing killing spree earns him the nickname "Billy the Kid."
The Quick Gun
A banished gunfighter (Audie Murphy) returns to his sweetheart (Merry Anders) and helps his sheriff friend (James Best) face outlaws.
The Prescott Kid
A cowboy finds himself in serious trouble with a notorious outlaw.
Renegades
Hannah Brockway has a perfect fiancé in Dr. Sam Martin. Sam, who is respected by Hannah's family, is a noble man who cares for her and can make a good living in their frontier town. Yet Hannah craves adventure and finds it when she meets dashing Ben Dembrow, the youngest of a notorious crime family. Together Ben and Hannah set off to forge a new life, but prejudice and strangling family ties soon bring trouble to these newlyweds.
Coroner Creek
A gunfighter (Randolph Scott) loses his beloved in a robbery and hunts the man (George Macready) to blame, who is living off the loot.
The Man From Colorado
In Colorado at the end of the Civil War, Col. Owen Devereaux (Glenn Ford), affected by four years of brutal bloodshed, orders the massacre of a Confederate unit, even as they try to surrender. Devereaux's friend and second in command, Capt. Del Stewart (William Holden), is the only one aware of the surrender attempt. Devereaux returns home to a hero's welcome and is appointed a judge, yet his irrational and angry behavior continues, affecting his fiancée, Caroline (Ellen Drew), as well as Del.
The Hard Man
A Texas Ranger (Guy Madison) turns deputy sheriff; a woman (Valerie French) wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband (Lorne Greene).
Forbidden Trail
A practical-joking cowboy (Buck Jones) gets serious with outlaws.
The Pathfinder
As the French and Indian Wars rage on, Hawkeye and those he cares about get caught up along with it. While helping to keep a British fort from falling into the hands of the Crown's enemies, he encounters Mabel Dunham—a beautiful woman who almost immediately raises the suspicions of Chingachgook, Hawkeye's Native American father. He warns his son not to trust the whites, but will the youth follow his father's advice or his own heart?
Utah Blaine
A gunfighter helps a ranch owner in his attempt to prevent a renegade crew from taking over the territory.
Indian Uprising
Gold thieves and the government rile Geronimo, despite a cavalry captain's (George Montgomery) efforts at peace.
Count Three and Pray
After fighting for the Union during the Civil War, Luke Fargo (Van Heflin) is greeted with resentment when he returns home to his small southern town. Luke has a reputation as a rogue, but he's reinvented himself as a man of God and plans to fix up the town's damaged church. Recalling their romantic past, Georgina Decrais (Allison Hayes) tries to reclaim Luke. But, to the dismay of some suspicious townspeople, he concentrates on mentoring an unsophisticated young woman, Lissy (Joanne Woodward).
Montana Territory
A cowgirl vigilante (Wanda Hendrix) proves to a deputy (Lon McCallister) that the sheriff (Preston Foster) is an outlaw.
Unknown Valley
Joe goes looking for his missing father in the desert, then strange villagers take him captive; he finds his father and plans to escape, taking with him a woman that he has fallen for.
Santa Fe
Three brothers become outlaws after the Civil War, while a fourth sibling goes to work for the railroad.
Land Raiders
An Arizona land-grabber (Telly Savalas) and his brother (George Maharis) renew their feud amid Army troops and Apaches.
Reprisal!
Frank Madden (Guy Madison), who is part Native American but passes as white, purchases a ranch in the small town of Kendall, Okla. When Frank moves in, he finds that the bigoted townspeople have recently let three brothers, who are also his neighbors, get away with the lynching murder of innocent Native Americans. As tensions between the townspeople and local Native Americans rise, Hank becomes torn between fighting against injustice and keeping his true identity a secret.
The Parson and the Outlaw
Billy the Kid (Anthony Dexter) retires from the outlaw life, fakes his own death and adopts the name William Bonney. Soon, William runs into Jack Slade (Sonny Tufts), a gun-toting stranger who is itching for a gunfight. Jack falls in with a group of thugs terrorizing William's town. The Rev. Jericho Jones (Buddy Rogers) exhorts William to defend the townspeople, and, when William's maid, Tonya (Marie Windsor), is beaten by the thugs, he grabs his pistol.
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Flaming arrows stop four ex-convicts searching a ghost town for their buried loot.
Stage to Tucson
Troubleshooters track Arizona stagecoaches hijacked for sale to the Confederacy.
The Desert Horseman
The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) catch up to payroll robbers.
The Last Posse
Wealthy rancher Sampson Drune is resented by members of the Romer family, who feel he swindled them out of their cattle. They retaliate by robbing Drune and fleeing with the money. Drune organizes a posse of townspeople and asks alcoholic Sheriff John Frazier to deputize the group. They head out in search of the bandits with Frazier in tow. Two days later, the Romers and Drune are dead, Frazier is wounded, and the money has disappeared.
The Stranger Wore a Gun
A man whose life was saved by an outlaw shows his gratitude by reluctantly assisting in a stagecoach robbery.