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
Info Source: Learn more about the movie here on IMDb.
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.
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.
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
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
IMDb Movie Storyline: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Also Known As: Covek iz Alama
Filming Locations: Mexican Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
IMDb Review Excerpt:
"I didn't know we were at War with Children"
There is always something interesting and just a bit different in this Director's Movies. This one is no exception. It is replete with thought provoking ideas like cowardice, bigotry, loyalty, and other values only found in the better Westerns.
This is an action filled Film with guns blazing, galloping Horses, Wagon Trains, bushwhackers, Mexican impersonators, fist-fights and all that is expected in this type of thing. But the difference here is the intelligence. Source: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2775267
Rawhide from 1951; starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe; with Dean Jagger, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan.
Directed by Henry Hathaway.
Also Known As: Desperate Seige
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Release Date: March 25, 1951
Movie Outline: A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
A funny thing happened to Kid Blue on the way to the robbery.
Kid Blue from 1973; comedy western starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle.
Directed by James Frawley (director of The Muppet Movie).
Written by Bud Shrake (writer of Tom Horn screenplay).
Filming Locations: Chupaderos, Durango, Mexico
Rated PG
Time: 1hr, 40min
IMDb Movie Outline: At the turn of the century, with the Old West fading away, Texas train robber Kid Blue goes straight and takes a factory job but old habits die hard.
Shoot Out from 1971; starring Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons; directed by Henry Hathaway (director of True Grit); a Hal Wallis production.
IMDb Movie Outline: A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year old girl.
Winner of the Bronze Wrangler for Fictional Television Drama in 1974!
(The Bronze Wrangler is an award presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to honor the top works in Western music, film, television and literature. The awards were first presented in 1961. The Wrangler is a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback, and is designed by artist John Free. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Wrangler)
