Trooper Hook: 1957 Western Movie

A white squaw stolen from an Apache chief ... now the massacre was on!

Trooper Hook (1957) Starring Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, John Dehner, with Royal Dano; directed by Charles Marquis Warren

IMDb Movie Outline: When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.

Color: Black & White

Runtime: 1hr, 21min

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The Texas Rangers: 1936 Western Movie

The Texas Rangers (1936)

Starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, and Lloyd Nolan, also with George 'Gabby' Hayes; directed by King Vidor

IMDb Movie Outline: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Trivia: King Vidor made this movie to honor the celebrations of the centennial of the state of Texas.

Color: Black & White

Runtime: 1hr, 38min

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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 Return of Frank James: 1940 Western Movie

 

$ 5,000 REWARD Wanted by the State of Missouri - JESSE & FRANK JAMES for train robbery!

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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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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Flaming Star: 1960 Western Movie

The white man's song was on his lips...but an Indian war cry was in his heart!

'Flaming Star' from 1960.

Starring Elvis Presley, John McIntire, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, and Dolores del Rio; directed by Don Siegel.

IMDb Movie Outline: When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.

• Also Known As: Black Heart
• Filming Location: Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
• From the novel 'Flaming Lance' by Clair Huffaker, also one of the screenwriters along with Nunnally Johnson.

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Blood on the Moon: 1948 Western Movie

LUSTY! VIOLENT! SAVAGE! (Movie Tagline)

Blood on the Moon from 1948; starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston; directed by Robert Wise.

IMDb Movie Outline: Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.

Learn more about the movie & cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040175

IMDb Movie Trivia: The novel by Luke Short upon which this film is based was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from 15 March to 26 April 1941.

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3:10 to Yuma: 1957 Western Movie

Drink the whisky... Love the woman... Try to stay alive till the 3:10 pulls out of town! (Movie Tagline)

3:10 to Yuma from 1957; starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, and Felicia Farr; directed by Delmer Daves.

IMDb Movie Outline: 

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him. 

IMDb Trivia: 

Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma AZ opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909, and housed over 3,000 men and over two dozen women for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy. The site is now operated as a historical museum by Arizona State Parks as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.

Learn more about the movie & cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050086

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Watch John Wayne on July 4th!

Get ready for 24 hours of John Wayne films starting today, Saturday 7/3/21 at 8:10pm PT, kicking off with 'The Dawn Rider' from 1935!

Airing on the Starz Encore Western Channel:

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Movie Lineup:

The Dawn Rider (1935)

North to Alaska (1960)

The Spoilers (1942)

The Trail Beyond (1934)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

North to Alaska (1960)

Paradise Canyon (1935)

The Comancheros (1961)

The Spoilers (1942)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

The Comancheros (1961)

North to Alaska (1960)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

The Spoilers (1942)

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Celebrate America with John Wayne on July 4th! 

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The Tall Men: 1955 Western Movie

As Big and Spectacular and Exciting As The Mighty West Itself! (Movie Tagline)

The Tall Men from 1955, starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell; directed by Raoul Walsh.

IMDb Movie Outline: 

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather. 

Learn more about the movie & cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048691

TCM Show Time: Saturday, July 3, 2021, at 7:15pm PT!

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