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1940s Western Movies

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Red River(1948)

2h 13min | Western, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 213 votes)

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson - With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, ...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

13
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western
4.0/5 (with 488 votes)

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, ...

Fort Apache(1948)

2h 5min | Western
3.6/5 (with 144 votes)

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, ...

Melody Time(1948)

1h 15min | Music, Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 119 votes)

In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney - With Roy Rogers, Ethel Smith, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Trigger, Bob Nolan, ...

The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman, James Tinling - With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Harry Davenport, ...

My Darling Clementine(1946)

1h 37min | Western, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 170 votes)

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

Directed by John Ford - With Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Grant Withers, Ward Bond, ...

The Mark of Zorro(1940)

1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 85 votes)

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian - With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, ...

Yellow Sky(1948)

1h 38min | Crime, Western
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, John Russell, Harry Morgan, Charles Kemper, ...

3 Godfathers(1948)

12
| 1h 46min | Western
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell, ...

They Died with Their Boots On(1941)

2h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War, Western
3.3/5 (with 50 votes)

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Directed by Raoul Walsh, B. Reeves Eason - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, ...

Angel and the Badman(1947)

1h 40min | Western, Romance / Love, Adventure, Action
3.3/5 (with 49 votes)

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.

Directed by James Edward Grant - With John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon, ...

Santa Fe Trail(1940)

1h 50min | Action, Western
3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, Van Heflin, ...
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The Yearling(1946)

2h 8min | Drama, Kids & Family, Western
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Henry Travers, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, ...

The Westerner(1940)

1h 40min | Action, Western, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 42 votes)

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

Directed by William Wyler - With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Fred Stone, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Paul Hurst, ...

The Outlaw(1943)

1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Western
2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.

Directed by Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks - With Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Walter Huston, Thomas Mitchell, Mimi Aguglia, Joe Sawyer, ...

The Return of Frank James(1940)

1h 32min | Action, Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, Donald Meek, ...

Duel in the Sun(1946)

2h 24min | Western, Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 66 votes)

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Directed by King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, ... - With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, ...

Blood on the Moon(1948)

1h 28min | Action, Romance / Love, Western
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter, Frank Faylen, ...

Western Union(1941)

1h 35min | Western
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

Directed by Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown, Otto Brower - With Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Slim Summerville, Chill Wills, ...

Northwest Passage(1940)

2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.

Directed by King Vidor, Jack Conway, W. S. Van Dyke - With Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Robert Barrat, ...

Dark Command(1940)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Porter Hall, ...

Boom Town(1940)

1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Directed by Jack Conway, John Waters - With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, ...

Tall in the Saddle(1944)

1h 27min | Western
3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George "Gabby" Hayes, Elisabeth Risdon, Raymond Hatton, ...

Abilene Town(1946)

1h 29min | Western, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However….

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Chubby Johnson, Walter Baldwin, Rhonda Fleming, ...

Silver River(1948)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue, William Bailey, ...

American Empire(1942)

1h 22min | Western
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.

Directed by William C. McGann - With Richard Dix, Preston Foster, Cliff Edwards, Richard Webb, William Farnum, Leo Carrillo, ...

Pursued(1947)

1h 41min | Western
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, Harry Carey, ...

Flame of Barbary Coast(1945)

1h 31min | Romance / Love, Western
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Directed by Joseph Kane, Borden Chase, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, ... - With John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Russell Hicks, ...
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Arizona(1940)

2h 5min | Western
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles - With Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall, Edgar Buchanan, Addison Richards, ...
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Return of the Bad Men(1948)

1h 30min | Drama, Western, Action
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.

Directed by Ray Enright - With Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, George "Gabby" Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, Gary Gray, Jacqueline White, ...
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