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The Hard Man
A Texas Ranger (Guy Madison) turns deputy sheriff; a woman (Valerie French) wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband (Lorne Greene).
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The Law vs. Billy the Kid
After riding into New Mexico, William Bonney and Pat Garrett are hired by rancher John Tunstall. Bonney's hard work wins Tunstall over, but his romance with the old man's niece makes foreman Bob Ollinger jealous. Learning of Bonney's criminal past, Ollinger leads a posse against him that kills Tunstall instead. Bonney vows to avenge his boss' death, and his ensuing killing spree earns him the nickname "Billy the Kid."
The Quick Gun
A banished gunfighter (Audie Murphy) returns to his sweetheart (Merry Anders) and helps his sheriff friend (James Best) face outlaws.
The Prescott Kid
A cowboy finds himself in serious trouble with a notorious outlaw.
Renegades
Hannah Brockway has a perfect fiancé in Dr. Sam Martin. Sam, who is respected by Hannah's family, is a noble man who cares for her and can make a good living in their frontier town. Yet Hannah craves adventure and finds it when she meets dashing Ben Dembrow, the youngest of a notorious crime family. Together Ben and Hannah set off to forge a new life, but prejudice and strangling family ties soon bring trouble to these newlyweds.
Coroner Creek
A gunfighter (Randolph Scott) loses his beloved in a robbery and hunts the man (George Macready) to blame, who is living off the loot.
Face of a Fugitive
While being escorted to jail, bank robber Jim Larsen (Fred MacMurray) manages to get the upper hand on his captor and escape. Jim is surprised to see his brother appear on the scene, ready to aid his sibling. As they make their getaway, his brother and the pursuing lawman shoot each other, leaving the stunned Jim alone and on the run. Assuming a different identity, Jim travels to a mining town and befriends the local sheriff (Lin McCarthy), hoping to start over and find redemption.
The Quest
Two brothers (Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson), one raised by Indians, seek their sister in the 1890s West.
Gun Fury
California-bound rancher Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) is shot and left for dead when a demented ex-Confederate, Frank Slayton (Phil Carey), kidnaps his Southern bride-to-be (Donna Reed). Revived, Ben sets out to rescue her. Along the way, he picks up Jess Burgess (Leo Gordon), a slighted former member of Slayton's gang, and American Indian local Johash (Pat Hogan), who has his own beef with the outlaws. Together they embark on a perilous chase toward the Mexican border to stop Slayton.
Headin' East
A cowboy discards his chaps and saddle for a suit and tie when he travels to the big city to investigate a produce racket that has been ruining his father's lettuce shipments. He falls for produce middleman Earle Hodgins' daughter and with Shemp Howard along for laughs, they smash the crooks' operation.
Cripple Creek
A federal agent (George Montgomery) and two colleagues infiltrate a gang of gold-rush gold smugglers.
The Thrill Hunter
After lying about being a stuntman, a blowhard (Buck Jones) gets the chance to prove himself to a movie studio.
The Return of Daniel Boone
The scout's grandson (Bill Elliott) foils land-grabbers; his sidekick (Dub Taylor) flirts with twins.
Massacre Canyon
A cavalry officer and two of his men set out to make sure that a shipment of guns safely reaches its destination.
Mackenna's Gold
Apaches, townsfolk, a Mexican bandit (Omar Sharif) and the cavalry follow a sheriff (Gregory Peck) to a mythical canyon of gold.
A Lawless Street
The honorable Calem Ware (Randolph Scott), marshal of the Wild West boomtown of Medicine Bend, attempts to defuse the simmering tensions in his rapidly growing and increasingly violent town, as a greedy businessman (Warner Anderson) hires a sinister black-gloved gunman (Michael Pate) to take care of his problems with the marshal for good. Meanwhile, a traveling song-and-dance troupe arrives in town, bearing Ware's lost love, Tally (Angela Lansbury), who holds the secret to his violent past.
Land Raiders
An Arizona land-grabber (Telly Savalas) and his brother (George Maharis) renew their feud amid Army troops and Apaches.
Reprisal!
Frank Madden (Guy Madison), who is part Native American but passes as white, purchases a ranch in the small town of Kendall, Okla. When Frank moves in, he finds that the bigoted townspeople have recently let three brothers, who are also his neighbors, get away with the lynching murder of innocent Native Americans. As tensions between the townspeople and local Native Americans rise, Hank becomes torn between fighting against injustice and keeping his true identity a secret.
The Parson and the Outlaw
Billy the Kid (Anthony Dexter) retires from the outlaw life, fakes his own death and adopts the name William Bonney. Soon, William runs into Jack Slade (Sonny Tufts), a gun-toting stranger who is itching for a gunfight. Jack falls in with a group of thugs terrorizing William's town. The Rev. Jericho Jones (Buddy Rogers) exhorts William to defend the townspeople, and, when William's maid, Tonya (Marie Windsor), is beaten by the thugs, he grabs his pistol.
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Flaming arrows stop four ex-convicts searching a ghost town for their buried loot.
Stage to Tucson
Troubleshooters track Arizona stagecoaches hijacked for sale to the Confederacy.
The Law vs. Billy the Kid
After riding into New Mexico, William Bonney and Pat Garrett are hired by rancher John Tunstall. Bonney's hard work wins Tunstall over, but his romance with the old man's niece makes foreman Bob Ollinger jealous. Learning of Bonney's criminal past, Ollinger leads a posse against him that kills Tunstall instead. Bonney vows to avenge his boss' death, and his ensuing killing spree earns him the nickname "Billy the Kid."
The Quick Gun
A banished gunfighter (Audie Murphy) returns to his sweetheart (Merry Anders) and helps his sheriff friend (James Best) face outlaws.
The Prescott Kid
A cowboy finds himself in serious trouble with a notorious outlaw.
Renegades
Hannah Brockway has a perfect fiancé in Dr. Sam Martin. Sam, who is respected by Hannah's family, is a noble man who cares for her and can make a good living in their frontier town. Yet Hannah craves adventure and finds it when she meets dashing Ben Dembrow, the youngest of a notorious crime family. Together Ben and Hannah set off to forge a new life, but prejudice and strangling family ties soon bring trouble to these newlyweds.
Coroner Creek
A gunfighter (Randolph Scott) loses his beloved in a robbery and hunts the man (George Macready) to blame, who is living off the loot.
Masterson of Kansas
In the 1870s, Marshal Wyatt Earp (Bruce Cowling) calls upon Dodge City, Kan., Sheriff Bat Masterson (George Montgomery) to track down rancher Merrick (John Maxwell), who is accused of murder. But, thanks to some proof held by local Native American Chief Yellow Hawk (Jay Silverheels), Masterson realizes Merrick might be the victim of a frame-up. So, with the help of Earp and gunfighter Doc Holliday (James Griffith), Masterson sets out to find those who are really behind the killing.
Battle of Rogue River
A cavalry major (George Montgomery) makes peace with Indians despite an agitator (Richard Denning) working for carpetbaggers.
Savage Wilderness
Jed Cooper (Victor Mature), a trapper, enlists as an army fort scout, and shortly after meets and falls for Corinna Marston (Anne Bancroft), the wife of a nearby fort's commander. Jed comes across her husband, Col. Marston (Robert Preston), after he's suffered an attack at the hands of Native Americans. Col. Marston forces the captain of Jed's fort, Glenn Riordan (Guy Madison), to send out Jed and the troops to fight his attackers, despite their lack of battle experience.
Go West, Young Girl!
New England writer Netty and cavalry widow Gilda team up to find Billy the Kid.
The Pathfinder
As the French and Indian Wars rage on, Hawkeye and those he cares about get caught up along with it. While helping to keep a British fort from falling into the hands of the Crown's enemies, he encounters Mabel Dunham—a beautiful woman who almost immediately raises the suspicions of Chingachgook, Hawkeye's Native American father. He warns his son not to trust the whites, but will the youth follow his father's advice or his own heart?
Indian Uprising
Gold thieves and the government rile Geronimo, despite a cavalry captain's (George Montgomery) efforts at peace.
Count Three and Pray
After fighting for the Union during the Civil War, Luke Fargo (Van Heflin) is greeted with resentment when he returns home to his small southern town. Luke has a reputation as a rogue, but he's reinvented himself as a man of God and plans to fix up the town's damaged church. Recalling their romantic past, Georgina Decrais (Allison Hayes) tries to reclaim Luke. But, to the dismay of some suspicious townspeople, he concentrates on mentoring an unsophisticated young woman, Lissy (Joanne Woodward).
Montana Territory
A cowgirl vigilante (Wanda Hendrix) proves to a deputy (Lon McCallister) that the sheriff (Preston Foster) is an outlaw.
Unknown Valley
Joe goes looking for his missing father in the desert, then strange villagers take him captive; he finds his father and plans to escape, taking with him a woman that he has fallen for.
Santa Fe
Three brothers become outlaws after the Civil War, while a fourth sibling goes to work for the railroad.
The Thrill Hunter
After lying about being a stuntman, a blowhard (Buck Jones) gets the chance to prove himself to a movie studio.
The Return of Daniel Boone
The scout's grandson (Bill Elliott) foils land-grabbers; his sidekick (Dub Taylor) flirts with twins.
Massacre Canyon
A cavalry officer and two of his men set out to make sure that a shipment of guns safely reaches its destination.
Mackenna's Gold
Apaches, townsfolk, a Mexican bandit (Omar Sharif) and the cavalry follow a sheriff (Gregory Peck) to a mythical canyon of gold.
A Lawless Street
The honorable Calem Ware (Randolph Scott), marshal of the Wild West boomtown of Medicine Bend, attempts to defuse the simmering tensions in his rapidly growing and increasingly violent town, as a greedy businessman (Warner Anderson) hires a sinister black-gloved gunman (Michael Pate) to take care of his problems with the marshal for good. Meanwhile, a traveling song-and-dance troupe arrives in town, bearing Ware's lost love, Tally (Angela Lansbury), who holds the secret to his violent past.
The Nevadan
On his way to jail, bandit Tom Tanner (Forrest Tucker) escapes the law and is pursued by Andy Barclay (Randolph Scott), a federal marshal who believes that Tanner will lead him to a stash of stolen gold. Barclay changes horses at the ranch of Karen Galt (Dorothy Malone), planting the seeds of romance before following Tanner to a mine shaft where the stashed loot is hidden. But a gang of outlaws who also want the gold then arrives, forcing Tanner and Barclay to team up and fend them off together.
Hangman's Knot
Major Matt Stewart (Randolph Scott) leads a troop of Confederate soldiers on a raid, targeting a wagon that is transporting Union gold. All the Union soldiers are killed except for one, who informs Stewart that the war had already ended a month ago. Stewart leads the troop into hiding, knowing they could face murder charges. After capturing a coach driven by nurse Molly Hull (Donna Reed), the soldiers try to evade a group of bandits chasing them to steal the gold.
Jubal
Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife (Valerie French) threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand (Rod Steiger) complicates matters by spreading lies.
The Texas Rangers
The Civil War has ended, the Union Army has pulled out, and now the Texas Rangers are needed once again to protect their state from harm. The newly reformed Rangers decide to take a chance by hiring a notorious outlaw Johnny Carver (George Montgomery). They offer the desperado amnesty for his previous crimes if he'll put his famous trigger finger to work for Texas. Carver agrees, but his new job won't be easy, as his old rival, the Sundance Kid (Ian MacDonald), is out for vengeance.
The Blazing Trail
A worthless gold mine leads the Durango Kid and a newspaperman on a trail marked by suspicion and deceit.
King of the Wild Horses
A mustang stallion runs swiftly to the rescue when the boy who befriended him is endangered.
Cowboy
A successful rancher, Tom Reese (Glenn Ford), forges a business venture with a Mexican landowner (Donald Randolph) but finds himself in a bind after squandering a lot of money at a hotel run by Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon). Frank has strong feelings for the Mexican's daughter (Anna Kashfi), and when he learns that Tom is in a tough spot, he exploits the situation to get closer to his potential paramour. Frank takes to horseback alongside Tom, and both are surprised by the results.
Western Code
Tim Barrett, a renowned lawman, rescues Patty from a ruffian and saves her brother from being lynched.