Horse Movies - Best Westerns
Best Western/Horse Movies
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Against A Crooked Sky (1975) Against the wishes of his family and friends, a young man sets out to find his sister, who was captured by Indians. |
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The Alamo (The 1960 version) Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie & nearly 200 Texans struggling for independence at a San Antonio mission are wiped out after a lengthy siege by the Mexican Army in 1836. |
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The Appaloosa (1966) Marlon Brando is a cow wrangler who pursues a sadistic Mexican bandit after his horse is stolen. |
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)Sam Peckinpah-directed playful tale about loner Jason Robards who builds a town in the remote desert. |
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Bite the Bullet (1975) At the turn of the century, a group of cowpokes engage in a contest involving a grueling 600-mile marathon horserace. |
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The Bravados (1958) Gregory Peck is a rancher in pursuit of his wife's murderers. |
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Broken Arrow (The 1950 version, not the 1996 movie which is not a western) Widowed Indian agent Tom Jeffords attempts to make a lasting peace with war chief Cochise and the Chiricahua Apaches in the 1870s. James Stewart western that helped to change the way Native Americans are portrayed in westerns. |
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Broken Lance (1954) Iron-fisted cattle baron Spencer Tracy finds the control he once wielded over his family and business slipping through his fingers. |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) William Goldman's humorous account of two wisecracking Hole-in-the-Wall Gang bank and train robbers (Robert Redford and Paul Newman) who flee with a schoolteacher (Katharine Ross) to Bolivia to resume their careers. Oscars for Best Song and Best Screenplay. |
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Calamity Jane (1984) Doris Day plays the buckskin gal who promises to bring a famous actress to remote Deadwood City. |
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Based on a true 1860s incident, uprooted by the U.S. government to an Oklahoma reservation, Cheyenne Indians embark on a perilous 1500-mile trek back to their Wyoming home ground. |
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Cimarron (the 1931 version) Western saga from Edna Ferber's novel about settlers in Oklahoma territory, starring Richard Dix, Irene Dunne. First Western to win Best Picture Oscar; also won for Best Screenplay. |
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Cimarron (the 1960 version) Epic western about an Oklahoma homesteader family, the Cravats, settling in the prairie from 1980 to 1915. Stars Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Aline MacMahon |
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City Slickers (1991) Three New Yorkers escape mid-life crises by going on a cattle drive led by Jack Palance, who won a Best Supporting Oscar for his performance. |
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City Slickers 2: Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) Billy Crystal and friends go back out west and run into Jack Palance playing his own evil twin brother, looking for buried treasure in this sequel to City Slickers. |
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Comes A Horseman (1978) In post-WWII Montana a greedy cattle baron (Jason Robards) wants another rancher's (Jane Fonda's) land. A big oil company wants everybody's land. Fonda and James Caan just want to fall in love. |
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The Cowboys (1972) Aging rancher John Wayne must break in a bunch of school kids as wranglers after his cowhands leave for the California gold rush. |
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Dances With Wolves (1990) Battle-weary Civil War veteran Kevin Costner decides to see the frontier before it is gone. Alone on the prairie, he befriends a roaming band of Sioux and learns the true meaning of "civilization." Won Oscars for: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay Adaptation, Score, Cinematography and Editing. |
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Destry Rides Again (1939) A quiet sheriff played by Jimmy Stewart tries to keep the peace without gunplay in untamed, crooked Bottleneck, while being wooed by a sultry dancehall singer played by Marlene Dietrich. |
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The Devil Horse (1932) Canfield, respected rancher, is involved in crooked horse racing, and also leads an outlaw gang! Some 10 years before our story, the gang raided an isolated cabin, leaving 5-year-old Frankie an orphan. The boy grows up wild, his only friends the wild horses...now joined by El Diablo, a savage but very fast race horse that Canfield steals and loses, in the process killing ranger Elliott Norton. Norton's ranger brother Bob now appears in the region to find his brother's killer; menaced by the outlaws, the vigilantes, and the Devil Horse, his only chance may be to enlist the aid of the now-speechless Wild Boy. |
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Duel in the Sun (1946) Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish and Charles Bickford star in this story about family turmoil and resentment. |
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