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Plot Summary:
In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Red Tomahawk (1967)
Plot Summary:
After Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The inhabitants own two machine-guns but don't want to lend them to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Chuka: The Gunfighter (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, spaghetti western
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Fort Utah (1967)
Plot Summary:
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Apache Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. His journey becomes a deadly adventure. His life will be threatened by the hostility of the desert, snakes, hallucinations and of course his encounter with his enemies….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse
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He Rides Tall (1964)
Plot Summary:
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, tension, suspense
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The Wild Westerners (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
Plot Summary:
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Thunder of Drums (1961)
Plot Summary:
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under the command of the tough Captain and he does not seem to be able to do anything right. Lt. McQuade also has trouble with Tracey, but it will be the renegade Indians that will test him and teach him the importance of following orders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, wild
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Frontier Uprising (1961)
Plot Summary:
Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, semi serious
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The Plainsman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Hondo (1967)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Branded (1965)
Plot Summary:
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Black Jack (1968)
Plot Summary:
Black Jack Murphy (Robert Woods) is the brains in an outfit of outlaws who rob the bank at Tusca City. All goes to plan with the heist but once the loot is safely obtained Jack's men lose no time in trying to double cross him. Wily Jack manages to outfox them at first and gets away with the cash but they soon catch up with him again and not only make off with the money but leave him crippled and carrying multiple causes for wanting revenge. This need for amends possesses Jack with an all consuming passion and he sets out to get even with each of his unfaithful former compadres but has his particular sights set on Indian Joe (Mimmo Palmara) and Sanchez (Rik Battaglia) who abused and killed his beloved sister. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Apache Rifles (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Johnny Reno (1966)
Plot Summary:
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: retro, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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Geronimo (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: costume drama
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Apache Uprising (1965)
Plot Summary:
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Convict Stage (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a lesson about taking the law into one's own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood on the Arrow (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The High Chaparral (1967)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, saga
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Eagle's Wing (1979)
Plot Summary:
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Western
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: euro western, semi serious, independent film
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The Devil's Backbone (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Trackers (1971)
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A rancher comes home and finds that his son has been murdered and his daughter kidnapped by a bandit gang. He hires a professional tracker with a reputation for finding his quarry to help him find the gang and rescue his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, semi serious
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Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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The Raiders (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Yuma (1971)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Plot Summary:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.`.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, retro, spaghetti western, independent film, suspense, wild
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Duel at Diablo (1966)
Plot Summary:
While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (Garner), rescues Ellen Grange (Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange (Weaver). He is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry unit. Willard, Ellen, and her infant son are along for the ride, as is horse trader Toller (Poitier), a veteran of the 10th Cavalry (the "Buffalo Soldiers"). The party is trapped in a canyon by Chata, an Apache chief and grandfather of Ellen's baby. Willard is captured and tortured. Jess sneaks away and brings reinforcements just in time to save the day. Jess learns that the man he has been hunting is none other than Willard Grange.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, retro, cult film
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful