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1. Gun Glory (1957)

Approved | 89 min | Western

A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland

Votes: 901

2. Duel at Apache Wells (1957)

Approved | 70 min | Western

A young man returns home after several years' absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper, Jim Davis, Harry Shannon

Votes: 92

3. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: Three Graves (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Cass Kendall is looking for the easy life. He is fast with a gun but not fastest. He moves to a town that doesn't allow guns. He immediately starts scheming to become top man in town.

Director: John English | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Nan Leslie, Frank Ferguson, James Best

Votes: 31

4. Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode: Boom Town Padre (1957)

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Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Dick Foran, Ernestine Barrier, Edgar Barrier, Liam Sullivan

5. 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: 584

6. Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer

Votes: 7,752

7. Dakota Incident (1956)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Western

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond

Votes: 642

8. Gun for a Coward (1956)

Approved | 88 min | Western

After the death of a rancher, his three sons run the ranch but one of them is seen as a coward because of his aversion to gun-fighting.

Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills

Votes: 623

9. A Day of Fury (1956)

Passed | 78 min | Western

When gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid

Votes: 501

10. The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

G | 81 min | Comedy

Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Pa's brother Uncle Sedge. He's working his way through a twenty years long relationship with Miss Bedelia Baines.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia

Votes: 351

11. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: Courage Is a Gun (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Johnny Adler comes to town. He is fast with a gun and loves to be feared. He accepts an offer to kill the town sheriff, but first he wants to take care of an infection in his finger.

Director: John English | Stars: Dick Powell, Beverly Garland, Robert Vaughn, James Westerfield

Votes: 42

12. The Tall Men (1955)

Approved | 122 min | Western

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 3,232 | Gross: $12.00M

13. Man Without a Star (1955)

Approved | 89 min | Western

Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell

Votes: 3,943

14. A Lawless Street (1955)

Passed | 78 min | Western

Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson, Jean Parker

Votes: 1,529

15. Crossroads (1955–1957)

30 min | Drama

The anthology series dramatized the lives of clergymen of all faiths and the problems they faced in both their professional and personal lives.

Stars: Ray Teal, Robert Carson, Frank J. Scannell, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 93

16. The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Romance, Western

In Tomahawk, the crooked Jackman brothers control the town, Sheriff Dunham is up for re-election, the sheep growers are banned in town and a stagecoach line undercover investigator arrives to catch the gang that regularly robs the stages.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, John Dehner

Votes: 460

17. The Fighting Chance (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Julie London, Ben Cooper, Taylor Holmes

Votes: 43

18. Texas Lady (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Western

A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, James Bell

Votes: 334

19. Stories of the Century (1954–1955)
Episode: L.H. Musgrove (1955)

Approved | Western

Matt and Margaret head to Denver in the late 1860's after the killing of a railroad telegraph operator. Bail jumper L H Musgrove, a known horse thief is their chief suspect. Musgrove and his pal end up facing vigilante justice.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Jim Davis, Kristine Miller, John Archer, James Craven

Votes: 16

20. Rails Into Laramie (1954)

Approved | 81 min | Western

A railroad sends an agent to Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the railroad from building its line into the area.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Joyce Mackenzie

Votes: 424

21. Drums Across the River (1954)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western

When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye

Votes: 1,090

22. Three Hours to Kill (1954)

Approved | 77 min | Western

Framed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott

Votes: 914

23. Stories of the Century (1954–1955)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Railroad detective Matt Clark roams the west, tracking down outlaws and bandits who are preying on the railroad.

Stars: Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Kristine Miller, Pat Hogan

Votes: 203

24. Destry (1954)

Approved | 95 min | Western

A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,635

25. Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)

Approved | 81 min | Western

After his father and brother are murdered by a corrupt lawyer and sheriff duo, railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara plans his revenge, and is aided by former outlaw Whitey Kincade.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane

Votes: 1,451

26. Jubilee Trail (1954)

Approved | 103 min | Western

A wild west trader and his New York City wife head out for California by wagon train. The trader is killed en route, and his wife finds herself pregnant. She continues on, hoping to find a man and a home.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell

Votes: 252 | Gross: $1.30M

27. The Lawless Rider (1954)

Approved | 62 min | Western

U.S. Marshal Johnny Carpenter turns in his badge in order to return to his ranch where cattle thieves have been operating. Reno Frost is the brains behind the rustling gang, and his main ... See full summary »

Director: Yakima Canutt | Stars: Johnny Carpenter, Rose Bascom, Frankie Darro, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 86

28. Stories of the Century (1954–1955)
Episode: Black Jack Ketchum (1954)

Approved | Western

Black Jack Ketchum is a wanted outlaw in two countries leading him to lie low at the Cullen Ranch in 1890's New Mexico. Matt and Frankie head to the area to stop the gang's activities and save young Eddie Cullen from a hangman's noose.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Jack Elam, Michael Hall

Votes: 26

29. Stories of the Century (1954–1955)
Episode: Sam Bass (1954)

Approved | Western

After the Sam Bass gang steals sixty thousand dollar of gold coin from a train on which Frankie rides, Frankie pretends to be a waitress romantically interested in captured henchman Hayes to get Hayes to reveal Bass' location.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Don Haggerty, James Anderson

Votes: 27

30. The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

Approved | 83 min | War, Western

A former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that it's not for him and tries to change his life.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready

Votes: 1,437

31. The Man from the Alamo (1953)

Approved | 79 min | Western

During the Alamo siege, John Stroud is sent to Ox Bow to protect the townsfolk but, following a massacre, he infiltrates Jess Wade's gang of turncoat renegades supporting the Mexicans.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian

Votes: 2,152

32. Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Western

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie

Votes: 453

33. The Last Posse (1953)

Passed | 73 min | Western

After a disgruntled rancher and his sons rob at gun-point a rival rancher, the town forms a posse to go after the culprits but the ensuing events are muddled by unclear facts, false testimony, old scores, secrets, murder and stolen money.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford, Wanda Hendrix

Votes: 537

34. Topeka (1953)

Passed | 69 min | Western

After a series of bank robberies, Jim Levering (Bill Elliott) as Wild Bill Elliott) and his gang decide to hide out for awhile in Deer Creek where bard-and-casino owner Mack Wilson (Harry ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Rick Vallin, Fuzzy Knight

Votes: 56

35. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode: The Sermon of the Gun (1953)

30 min | Drama

A former gun-slinger turned preacher takes up his guns again to save his flock.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Macdonald Carey, K.T. Stevens, Trevor Bardette, Walter Sande

36. The Gene Autry Show (1950–1955)
Episode: Gypsy Wagon (1953)

30 min | Western

When an elderly gypsy and his lovely daughter surprise outlaws holding up a stagecoach, the thieves try to kill the witnesses before they can be identified.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gloria Talbott, Myron Healey

Votes: 11

37. The Lawless Breed (1952)

Approved | 83 min | Biography, Western

After being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire

Votes: 1,421

38. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)

30 min | Drama

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 276

39. Untamed Frontier (1952)

Approved | 78 min | Western

Squeezed between Mexico and the Denbow family lands lies the U.S. government free grazing land but the incoming settlers cannot reach it without trespassing on the Denbow property which is defended by an army of Denbow cowhands.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball

Votes: 428

40. The Story of Will Rogers (1952)

Approved | 109 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The homespun humorist and social critic starts as a cowboy and goes on to vaudeville, movies, and radio.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller

Votes: 529

41. Barbed Wire (1952)

Passed | 61 min | Music, Western

When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram (Pat Buttram)... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Anne James, William Fawcett

Votes: 124

42. The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1960)
Episode: Singing Wires (1952)

30 min | Western

The Army believes Native Americans killed two men, but Kit and El Toro believes it was white men.

Director: John English | Stars: Bill Williams, Don Diamond, Keith Richards, Baynes Barron

43. Cattle Drive (1951)

Approved | 77 min | Western

A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames

Votes: 772

44. Along the Great Divide (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Western

A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan

Votes: 2,269

45. The Texas Rangers (1951)

Passed | 74 min | Western

In 1874, unable to eliminate a gang of notorious outlaws, the Texas Rangers hire two former convicts to assist with the tracking and the destruction of the Sam Bass gang.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland, Noah Beery Jr.

Votes: 455

46. Man in the Saddle (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Western

A private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox

Votes: 1,588

47. Fort Worth (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Western

Civil War veteran and former newspaperman Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the war is over and finds himself fighting an old friend who's grown ambitious.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter

Votes: 815

48. The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1960)

30 min | Western

Kit and his pal El Toro go all over the west securing justice for all (absolutely no connection with the historical character).

Stars: Bill Williams, Don Diamond, John Cason, Peter Mamakos

Votes: 134

49. Golden Girl (1951)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Musical, Western

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day, James Barton

Votes: 319

50. Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)

Passed | 79 min | Biography, Western

Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry

Votes: 304