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Plot Summary:
George Washington McLintock, 'GW' to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying that she's returned to take their daughter back to the State Capitol with her. GW is highly respected by everyone around him including the farmers who are pouring into the territories with free grants of land and the Indians who are under threat of being relocated to another reservation. Between his wife, his headstrong daughter, the crooked land agent and the thieving government Indian agent, GW tries to keep the peace and do what is best for everyone.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, exciting, captivating, slapstick, black and white, slapstick comedy, touching, realistic
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The Rounders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, humorous, realistic, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, neo western
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Texas Across the River (1966)
Plot Summary:
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry (who have come to Moccasin Flats to celebrate Texas' statehood) and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, funny, parody, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, slapstick, tension
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City Slickers (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, entertaining, captivating, clever, touching, satirical, smart
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Sam Whiskey (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, parody, tension, light, romantic
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The Villain (1979)
Plot Summary:
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, exciting, captivating, spoof, period piece
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Lightning Jack (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, spaghetti western, parody, light, clever
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One More Train to Rob (1971)
Plot Summary:
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western
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The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
Plot Summary:
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives he find's his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to out-smart and defeat Lundy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Carry on Cowboy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Plot Summary:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, retro, action adventure, exciting, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Boot Hill (1969)
Plot Summary:
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, action comedy, euro western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Plot Summary:
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, buddy comedy, spoof, funny, grindhouse, parody, humorous, slapstick, epic, fast paced
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Ace High (1968)
Plot Summary:
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
Plot Summary:
A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, detective
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Catlow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Catlow is a 1971 western based on a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a outlaw determined to pull off a gold robbery and co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, exciting, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Rare Breed (1966)
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When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama, cult film
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Boss Nigger (1974)
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Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spaghetti western, funny, independent film, exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Plot Summary:
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, epic, slapstick, 70mm film
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Plot Summary:
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, cult classic, slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Plot Summary:
A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, cult classic, funny, hilarious, slapstick, light, talky, exciting
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Three Amigos (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, feel good, light, talky, not serious, spoof, slapstick, cult classic
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The Comancheros (1961)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, tense, sentimental, light, sexy
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, satirical, entertaining, spoof, hilarious, slapstick
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House of My Father (2012)
Plot Summary:
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, surreal, satirical, entertaining, not serious, spoof, stylized, light
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Big Jake (1971)
Plot Summary:
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, tense, entertaining, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, independent film, neo western
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Lucky Luke (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, captivating, light, entertaining, funny, exciting, not serious
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Goin' South (1978)
Plot Summary:
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, light, humorous, exciting, funny, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, realistic
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The War Wagon (1967)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, humorous, suspense, tense, captivating, retro, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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Cat Ballou (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious, captivating, humorous, witty, parody, spoof