Sort by Year - Latest Movies and TV Shows With Artie Ortego

1. Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960)
Episode: Swamp Fire (1960)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Rex is hired to find out why the legend of a supernatural swamp phantom is being used to scare Cajun workers away from a bayou oil drilling camp.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Richard Long, Andrew Duggan, Van Williams, Jaclyn Hellman

Votes: 10

2. Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode: La Rubia (1960)

60 min | Western

Bronco riding shotgun on a stage when it is attacked by Apaches is wounded. He is forced into dangerous intrigue involving a Mexican bandit who rescues them, a treacherous blonde girl who is a passenger and a cache of hidden gold.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Ty Hardin, Joan O'Brien, Faith Domergue, Carlos Romero

Votes: 26

3. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: The Peace Officer (1960)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

Dillon heads to Dodge to get a new man to replace the brutal, corrupt sheriff of Tascosa, with hired killers in pursuit who are unaware that the sheriff's ex-girlfriend has joined up with Dillon.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Amanda Blake, Susan Cummings

Votes: 187

4. Yellowstone Kelly (1959)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Western

In 1870s, in the Sioux territory south of the Missouri, trapper and Indian scout Luther Yellowstone Kelly is hired by the army at Fort Buford but runs into trouble with the Sioux.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton

Votes: 1,280

5. Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960)

60 min | Crime, Drama

A former New Orleans cop partners with an Ivy League lawyer to open up a private detective agency with offices on the city's famed Bourbon Street.

Stars: Richard Long, Andrew Duggan, Van Williams, Arlene Howell

Votes: 197

6. The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)

Approved | 81 min | Western

After his brother the sheriff is murdered, Bat Masterson is elected to the job and is determined to find the killer and make Dodge City safe.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Nancy Gates

Votes: 1,068

7. Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode: Baron of Broken Lance (1959)

60 min | Western

Trouble brews when Bronco is leading a wagon train through the wilderness. It seems that an old army buddy of his is on the train, and he's brought along the runaway daughter of a powerful cattle rancher, who doesn't like it one bit.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Ty Hardin, William Reynolds, Shirley Knight, Myron Healey

Votes: 30

8. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: The Imposter (1959)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Cheyenne befriends a wealthy rancher who makes Cheyenne the trustee of his estate until his son can be found if he dies. The man is killed in a mine incident with Cheyenne wounded. After healing, he finds another man has taken his place.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Clint Walker, Peter Whitney, James Drury, Robert McQueeney

Votes: 81

9. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Grand Duke (1959)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Russian Grand Duke Alexis is touring the West and the government assigns Buffalo Bill as his guide. The frontiersman objects but ends up bonding with the royal. An encounter with hostile Indians cements the friendship.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: John Lupton, Alexander Davion, Vitina Marcus, Maurice Jara

Votes: 23

10. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: The Ghost Soldiers (1959)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Arriving at an army fort shortly after an Indian massacre, Bret and two soldiers must find a way to survive the gathering Indian war party until reinforcements arrive. Bret's plan involves turning the Indians' superstitions against them.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: James Garner, James Westerfield, Paul Clarke, Stuart Randall

Votes: 108

11. The Restless Gun (1957–1959)
Episode: The Dead Ringer (1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Vint is deliberately framed for a bank robbery and murder.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, Walter Coy, Richard H. Cutting, Roy Engel

Votes: 25

12. Bronco (1958–1962)

60 min | Western

A former confederate soldier wanders the old west, and meets such famous characters as Jesse James, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Stars: Ty Hardin, Robert Colbert, Clyde Howdy, Mike Road

Votes: 392

13. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: Standoff (1958)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

In Mexico Cheyenne finds a wounded man he takes to a local village which has a female doctor. He quickly learns the town is being held hostage by a vicious bandit who will burn the village if he doesn't find who shot two of his men.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Clint Walker, Joy Page, Rodolfo Acosta, Richard Garland

Votes: 69

14. Maverick (1957–1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Western

Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.

Stars: Jack Kelly, James Garner, Roger Moore, Lane Chandler

Votes: 3,621

15. The Restless Gun (1957–1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

The adventures of Vint Bonner, a cowboy in the post Civil War era.

Stars: John Payne, Leonard P. Geer, Dan Blocker, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 290

16. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.

Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis

Votes: 8,737

17. East of Eden (1955)

PG | 118 min | Drama

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives

Votes: 48,800

18. Cheyenne (1955–1963)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the West looking for fights, bad guys to beat up, and women. His job changed from episode to episode.

Stars: Clint Walker, Clyde Howdy, Chuck Hicks, Lane Chandler

Votes: 2,023

19. 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: 1,526

20. Escape to Burma (1955)

TV-PG | 87 min | Adventure

A fugitive in British Burma hides on a teak plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 696

21. Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955–1956)

30 min | Western

Buffalo Bill Jr. and his kid sister Calamity are raised under the watchful eye of Judge Ben 'Fair and Square" Wiley. Together this dynamic trio keep law and order in small town of Wileyville, Arizona.

Stars: Dickie Jones, Nancy Gilbert, Harry Cheshire, Bob Woodward

Votes: 99

22. Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955–1956)
Episode: Apache Raid (1955)

30 min | Western

After moving their cattle onto the Apache Indian reservation, Gorman accuses the Indians of cattle rustling. It's up to Buffalo Bill Jr. and his sis Calamity to prove the Indians' innocence.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dickie Jones, Nancy Gilbert, Harry Cheshire, Walter Reed

Votes: 8

23. Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955–1956)
Episode: Grave of the Monsters (1955)

30 min | Western

A professor and his men are taking a survey on the Navajo Reservation land so that they can get to the rock oil that is underneath the rocks. They murder the Indian agent and then try to ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dickie Jones, Nancy Gilbert, Harry Cheshire, Walter Reed

Votes: 12

24. 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: 911

25. Broken Lance (1954)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark

Votes: 4,302 | Gross: $8.28M

26. 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: 507

27. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest

Votes: 1,128 | Gross: $1.45M

28. The Lone Gun (1954)

Approved | 76 min | Western

In Texas, drifter Cruze becomes the marshal of the town of Marlpine but he must face the murderous Moran brothers alone when the scared town refuses to back him up.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: George Montgomery, Dorothy Malone, Frank Faylen, Neville Brand

Votes: 547

29. The Forty-Niners (1954)

Passed | 71 min | Western

During California's gold-rush, an undercover marshal, posing as a gunfighter, investigates the murder of another marshal who had been assigned to the region.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Bill Elliott, Virginia Grey, Harry Morgan, John Doucette

Votes: 196

30. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Saint's Portrait (1954)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

A drought in Pueblo Indian country has bypassed a branch headed by Miguel due to a painting of St. Joseph. The Laguna tribe headed by Felipe borrows it but then refuses to return it after receiving rain, causing conflict.

Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Maurice Jara, Eugenia Paul, Rico Alaniz, Martin Garralaga

Votes: 36

31. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)
Episode: 3-7-77 (1954)

TV-PG | 26 min | Western

Soon after Hoppy and Red arrive where the murderous outlaws operate with impunity and precision in lawless Canyon City to help sheriff Barnett the mark of the vigilante, 3-7-77, starts to appear at the locations of those Hoppy suspects.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, James Anderson, James Seay

Votes: 28

32. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)
Episode: Copper Hills (1954)

TV-PG | 26 min | Western

Drunk Picture Pete has photographed a on reservation hill has rich in copper ore of which speculator Rush has learned and has, to get the ore land, made it appear by killing and property destruction that the Apache and Maricopa are at war.

Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, Joseph Waring, George D. Wallace

Votes: 24

33. Ramar of the Jungle (1952–1954)
Episode: The Hidden Treasure (1954)

Adventure

A doctor's houseboy is murdered, and all the clues lead to a missing talisman and the mysterious Kaali cult.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Jon Hall, Ray Montgomery, Victor Millan, Bernie Gozier

Votes: 8

34. Calamity Jane (1953)

Passed | 101 min | Musical, Romance, Western

The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey

Votes: 10,842

35. Law and Order (1953)

Passed | 80 min | Western

Frame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done...

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Alex Nicol

Votes: 928

36. 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: 1,428

37. The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Western

An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey

Votes: 797

38. The Homesteaders (1953)

Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western

Homesteaders Mace Corbin and Clyde Moss pick up much needed dynamite and begin a journey to transport it from an army fort to their homes, hiring a crew of ex-soldiers just released from ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Bill Elliott, Robert Lowery, Emmett Lynn, George D. Wallace

Votes: 68

39. Fighting Lawman (1953)

Passed | 71 min | Western

Woman is determined to get loot stolen by robbers, is pursued by a sheriff who's determined that she won't.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, John Kellogg, Harry Lauter

Votes: 82

40. The Cisco Kid (1950–1956)
Episode: The Photo Studio (1953)

Approved | 30 min | Western

A rancher is shot to death while posing for a photograph and, as usual, the wrong person gets blamed. It's up to Cisco and Pancho to set things right.

Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Rand Brooks, James Seay

Votes: 16

41. Cowboy G-Men (1952– )
Episode: Hang the Jury (1953)

30 min | Western

Pat and Stoney are sent to Oklahoma to assist the state authorities to investigate a hanging judge. Stoney's plan to go undercover backfires when he is framed for murder himself.

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Russell Hayden, Jackie Coogan, Morris Ankrum, Tristram Coffin

Votes: 7

42. Cowboy G-Men (1952– )
Episode: Mysterious Decoy (1953)

30 min | Western

Add a Plot

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Russell Hayden, Jackie Coogan, Morris Ankrum, Phil Arnold

43. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)
Episode: Death by Proxy (1953)

TV-PG | 26 min | Western

Jim Adams convicted convincingly of Ben Samuels' murder has escaped from prison and, while Hoppy protects Adams from vigilantism, Hoppy is troubled by an Adams' trial physical description and huge doctor fees paid by Samuels' brother.

Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, Paul Richards, Fred Sherman

Votes: 28

44. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)
Episode: Frontier Law (1953)

TV-PG | 26 min | Western

Hoppy's mission from a law & order committee to prevent a town boss from blocking a territorial charter vote is imperiled when Hoppy's recently arrived lawyer nephew agrees to defend a boss' henchman and a victim changes his story.

Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, William Henry, Robert Griffin

Votes: 26

45. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product formerly mined in Death Valley.

Stars: Stanley Andrews, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Dale Robertson

Votes: 1,045

46. High Noon (1952)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 110,128 | Gross: $9.45M

47. The Big Trees (1952)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western

A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 1,855

48. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Hopalong and his horse Topper catch bad guys with Red Connors for comic relief.

Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, George D. Wallace, Rick Vallin

Votes: 391

49. Rancho Notorious (1952)

Approved | 89 min | Western

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry

Votes: 5,526

50. The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, History

In this story based on true events of 1917, three Portuguese children share a miraculous, prophetic vision of the Virgin Mary.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Angela Clarke, Frank Silvera, Jay Novello

Votes: 1,448