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1. Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, before, during, and even after the Revolutionary War.
Stars: Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon
Votes: 2,422
2. Laramie (1959–1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
In the 1870s Wyoming Territory, Slim Sherman and his 14-year-old brother Andy try to hang on to their ranch after their father's death.
Stars: Robert Fuller, John Smith, Spring Byington, Dennis Holmes
Votes: 1,484
3. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell was often the star, as well as the host.
Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Sande, Denver Pyle, Bill Erwin
Votes: 585
4. Lassie (1954–1974)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.
Stars: Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly
Votes: 3,814
5. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 32,586
6. Tall Man Riding (1955)
Approved | 83 min | Western
Larry Madden returns to Little River after several years, still vowing to avenge himself against the humiliating whipping he received at the hands of cattle baron Tucker Ordway.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, William Ching
Votes: 921
7. Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Approved | 87 min | Romance, Western
A Confederate spy takes the sheriff job in a lawless Union town where people are hostile to him and where a crooked saloon owner peddles rifles to the renegade Indians.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell
Votes: 371
8. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,794 | Gross: $2.54M
9. Flight to Mars (1951)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston
Votes: 1,344
10. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 4,809
11. Fury (1955–1960)
30 min | Drama, Family, Western
A horse and the boy who loved him.
Stars: Peter Graves, William Fawcett, Bobby Diamond, Highland Dale
Votes: 576
12. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,740
13. Cannonball (1958–1959)
30 min | Adventure, Drama
The adventures of a pair of long-haul truck drivers as they haul cargo all over the US and Canada.
Stars: Paul Birch, William Campbell, Beth Lockerbie, Beth Morris
Votes: 127
14. Shotgun (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Western
After vengeful Ben Thompson ambushes and kills Marshal Mark Fletcher with a shotgun, Deputy Marshal Clay Hardin pursues the Thompson gang.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo, Zachary Scott, Guy Prescott
Votes: 554
15. Overland Telegraph (1951)
Passed | 60 min | Western
When the telegraph line is sabotaged before completion, Tim Holt and his sidekick Chito investigate.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Tim Holt, Gail Davis, Hugh Beaumont, Mari Blanchard
Votes: 190
16. The Tall Man (1960–1962)
30 min | Western
Fictionalized stories about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid set in New Mexico in the 1870s.
Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Walter Lawrence, Mark Tapscott
Votes: 200
17. The Catman of Paris (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Are mysterious killings in Paris of 1896 the work of man or monster?
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 372
18. The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Western
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery Jr., Warner Anderson
Votes: 479
19. Fort Yuma (1955)
Approved | 78 min | Western
A disgruntled settler kills an Apache chief at Fort Yuma, and the fort's commander knows that the chief's son, Manga Colorado, will seek revenge and go on the warpath.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson, Joan Taylor
Votes: 483
20. Frontier Circus (1961–1962)
60 min | Western
A one-ring circus travels through the American West in the 1880's.
Stars: Chill Wills, John Derek, Richard Jaeckel, J. Pat O'Malley
Votes: 77
21. The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Three Indians are murdered. Each was wearing a medallion when he died. Together the medallions form a puzzle whose solution points to gold.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Douglas Kennedy, Charles Watts
Votes: 706
22. War Paint (1953)
Approved | 89 min | Adventure, War, Western
An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Robert Stack, Joan Taylor, Charles McGraw, Keith Larsen
Votes: 535
23. The Texican (1966)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A former Texas sheriff, living in Mexico, goes to Arizona to investigate the murky circumstances under which his brother, a peaceful newspaperman, was killed.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys, Aldo Sambrell
Votes: 936
24. The Broken Star (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Western
When a deputy marshal murders a henchman, steals the racketeer money he is holding, and claims self defense, the head marshal orders an investigation to find the truth.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Howard Duff, Lita Baron, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 260
25. Panhandle (1948)
Approved | 85 min | Western
John Sands, a former Texas marshal turns to ranching, and later to a gunfighter when he sets out to prove that casino/saloon owner, Matt Garson, had his brother, a newspaperman, killed.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 353
26. Town Tamer (1965)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 325
27. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 511
28. Tomahawk Trail (1957)
Approved | 60 min | Western
An incompetent cavalry lieutenant leads his patrol into an Apache ambush on the Tomahawk Trail, gets wounded in a skirmish, and loses the command to his sergeant.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell
Votes: 333
29. Convict Stage (1965)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Western
When outlaws savagely murder his sister, a cowboy swears vengeance. However, before he can take the law into his own hands, an old lawman corrals the gang himself and brings the outlaws to justice properly.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Harry Lauter, Don 'Red' Barry, Jodi Mitchell, Hanna Landy
Votes: 221
30. Blackmail (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't decided to take the job, the blackmailers believe that he already has, and he is marked for murder.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers
Votes: 278
31. Silver on the Sage (1939)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy goes undercover as an Eastern gambler to rein in the fraternal perpetrators of a cattle-rustling scheme.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 206
32. The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
Passed | 59 min | Horror
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers
Votes: 610
33. Ceiling Zero (1936)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 785
34. Flat Top (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield
Votes: 542
35. Overland Trail (1960)
60 min | Western
The adventures of a crusty superintendent for the Overland Stage Co. and his young sidekick as they try to keep the stage routes safe.
Stars: William Bendix, Doug McClure, Harry Guardino, Sean McClory
Votes: 93
36. Dragonfly Squadron (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, War
In Pusan, shortly before the start of the Korean War, American flight instructors teach South Korean pilots how to fly US-made warplanes.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett, Jess Barker
Votes: 168
37. What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson
Votes: 440
38. Revolt at Fort Laramie (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Western
At the start of the Civil War, the soldiers manning Fort Laramie are split between Yanks and Confederates but the real threat is the warpath Sioux surrounding them all.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Dehner, Gregg Palmer, Frances Helm, Don Gordon
Votes: 439
39. I Was an American Spy (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo
Votes: 280
40. Fort Courageous (1965)
Approved | 72 min | Western
An ex-cavalry sergeant, being escorted to prison after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, finds himself leading the remnants of a unit that has been under Indian attack at a fort.... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Fred Beir, Don 'Red' Barry, Hanna Landy, Harry Lauter
Votes: 182
41. The Sky Dragon (1949)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Mystery
On a plane trip, Charlie Chan and the passengers are drugged, and when they wake up a quarter million dollars is missing.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Noel Neill
Votes: 388
42. Heritage of the Desert (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Western
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden, Robert Barrat
Votes: 118
43. The Frontiersmen (1938)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Western
A pretty and gentle schoolteacher from Boston transforms the lives of a spoiled boy and the other residents at 'Bar 20' Ranch, and is courted by Crockett city's Mayor, who is really a livestock thief.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, Evelyn Venable
Votes: 230
44. Partners of the Plains (1938)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Western
Lorna Drake has inherited a ranch. Hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles Scar Lewis, the bad guy, in the process.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Harvey Clark, Gwen Gaze
Votes: 198
45. Broadway Bad (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 231
46. The Highwayman (1951)
82 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1700s, a masked bandit robs the rich and aids the poor, to the chagrin of the authorities and the corrupt nobility, and prompting the king to task a ruthless man from the Colonies to capture the outlaw.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Philip Friend, Charles Coburn, Wanda Hendrix, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 98
47. The Red Stallion (1947)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Family, Western
A mare dies while foaling the Red Stallion. He is reared by a boy and is entered in a big race - something like the Kentucky Derby.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Ted Donaldson, Jane Darwell
Votes: 138
48. Border Patrol (1943)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Russell Simpson
Votes: 331
49. Fighter Attack (1953)
Approved | 80 min | War
World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 200
50. The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 203