Stagecoach: 1966 Western Movie

Riding to Greatness Across 2,000 Miles of Flaming Frontier!

Stagecoach from 1966; starring Ann-Margret, Alex Cord, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummings, Van Heflin, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, and Keenan Wynn.

Director: Gordon Douglas

IMDb Movie Outline: On the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.

• Also Known As: Martin Rackin's Production of Stagecoach
• Filming Locations: Caribou Country Club Ranch, Nederland, Colorado, USA
• Rating/Certificate: Approved
• Release Date: June 15, 1966 (United States)
• Runtime: 1h 55min

Trivia: The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Red Buttons, Van Heflin and Bing Crosby; and one Oscar nominee: Ann-Margret.

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The Unforgiven: 1960 Western Movie

A Breed Apart ... Unashamed ... Unconquerable ... Unforgettable!

The Unforgiven from 1960; starring Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon; with Albert Salmi and Doug McClure

Director: John Huston

Writers: Ben Maddow (screenplay), Alan Le May (based on a novel by)

IMDb Movie Outline: The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

• Also known as: The Siege at Dancing Bird
• Filming locations: Durango, Mexico
• Rating/Certificate: Approved
• Release date: April 6, 1960 (United States)
• Runtime: 2hr, 5min

Trivia:

• "The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburn's only Western.
• According to Audie Murphy's biographer Don Graham, the script called for Burt Lancaster to slap him. That enraged the war hero to such a degree that witnesses thought that Murphy, who carried a gun, might have killed Lancaster under different circumstances. John Huston eventually defused the situation.
• John Huston intended the film as a response to John Ford's The Searchers (1956).

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The Silver Whip: 1953 Western Movie

Adventure Lashes Across The Face Of The West!

The Silver Whip, from 1953, starring Robert Wagner, Dale Robertson, and Rory Calhoun.

Director: Harmon Jones

Writers: Jesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay), Jack Schaefer (from a novel by)

IMDb Movie Outline: Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.

• Also known as: Die silberne Peitsche
• Filming locations: Sonora, California, USA
• Rating/Certificate: Passed
• Release date: May 4, 1953 (United Kingdom)
• Runtime: 1hr, 13min

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The Return of Frank James: 1940 Western Movie

 

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The Return of Frank James from 1940; starring Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper

Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Sam Hellman (original screenplay)

IMDb Movie Outline: Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

• Also Known As: Rache für Jesse James
• Filming Locations: Lone Pine, California, USA
• Rating/Certificate: Approved
• Release Date: August 16, 1940 (United States)
• Runtime: 1hr 32min

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Showdown: 1963 Western Movie

 

Enemies Chained Together Like Mad Dogs!

Showdown from 1963, starring Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake; with L.Q. Jones, Strother Martin, and Dabbs Greer. 

(Not to be confused with Dean Martin's 'Showdown' from 1973)

Directed by R.G. Springsteen; written by Ric Hardman.

IMDb Movie Outline: A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.

• Also known as: The Iron Collar
• Filming locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
• Rating/Certificate: Approved
• Release date: May 3, 1963 (United States)
• Runtime: 1h 19min

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Frenchie: 1950 Western Movie

Every Inch of Her Was Against the Law! She's Tameless...He's Tough!

Frenchie from 1950; starring Shelley Winters, Joel McCrea, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester, John Russell.

Directed by Louis King.

Written by Oscar Brodney (story and screenplay)

IMDb Movie Outline: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.

• Also Known As: Revolverlady
• Filming Locations: Buttermilk Country, Inyo National Forest, California, USA
• Rated/Certificate: Approved
• Release Date: April 20, 1951 (Australia)
• Runtime: 1hr21min

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