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51. Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
Passed | 267 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Wilcox, William Newell, C. Montague Shaw
Votes: 278
52. Flaming Frontier (1965)
G | 93 min | Adventure, Western
Old Surehand and Old Wabble are trailing a killer, but on the way they also intervene in a dispute between the Comanche and the settlers.
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Larry Pennell, Letícia Román
Votes: 1,687
53. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Western
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer
Votes: 1,899
54. The Phantom of the Air (1933)
Passed | 240 min | Action, Adventure
After inventing an anti-gravity device, scientist Thomas Edmonds and his daughter Mary attend the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in search of a pilot to demonstrate the device and Bob Raymond, from the U.S. Border Patrol, is chosen.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tom Tyler, Gloria Shea, LeRoy Mason, William Desmond
Votes: 79
55. Dazzle (1995 TV Movie)
181 min | Drama, Romance
Beautiful successful photographer battles evil half-sisters and evil land developers to keep the family ranch intact, following her father's death. In the midst of all this, she finds love and fulfillment.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Lisa Hartman, Cliff Robertson, James Farentino, Dixie Carter
Votes: 143
56. High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Music, Musical
Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene Dunne).
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 410
57. Charley-One-Eye (1973)
R | 96 min | Western
A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Jill Pearson
Votes: 288
58. Fandango (1970)
X | 79 min | Western
A group of coal miners try to save the 'working girls' at the local brothel.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: James Whitworth, Shawn Devereaux, Tony Vorno, Jay Scott
Votes: 48
59. Yellowstone (1936)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-con is murdered in Yellowstone National Park while a bank robber's son is searching for the loot his father hid there 20 years before.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Andy Devine, Alan Hale
Votes: 180
60. Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maisie Ravier finds herself stranded in an Arizona ghost town with a family of migrant dust bowl refugees. The ghost town, it turns out, may have a gold mine.
Directors: Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter Ruben, Norman Taurog | Stars: Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Slim Summerville, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 433
61. The Gold Diggers (1983)
89 min | Drama, Music
An avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Julie Christie, Colette Laffont, Hilary Westlake, David Gale
Votes: 372
62. Jungle Drums of Africa (1953)
Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The daughter of a medical missionary in Africa carries on her father's work after he dies. She befriends two adventurers prospecting for uranium, and before long she finds herself in danger... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Clayton Moore, Phyllis Coates, Johnny Sands, Roy Glenn
Votes: 136
63. Wings of the Hawk (1953)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
During the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz
Votes: 323
64. The Round-up (1920)
70 min | Comedy, Western
An overweight sheriff does his best to assist a man accused of theft.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Julienne Scott, Irving Cummings, Tom Forman
Votes: 207
65. The Naked Hills (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Western
In 1849, an Indiana farmer develops a life-long gold fever and an obsession with finding the 'mother lode' in the Californian hills.
Director: Josef Shaftel | Stars: David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 241
66. Siren of the Tropics (1927)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis.... See full summary »
Directors: Henri Étiévant, Mario Nalpas | Stars: Georges Melchior, Régina Dalthy, Pierre Batcheff, Queenie Thomas
Votes: 374
67. The Prospecting Bear (1941)
G | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Barney and his severely overloaded pack mule are prospecting, high on a mountain, when Barney spots gold nuggets, and a whole cave lined with gold.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Star: Rudolf Ising
Votes: 136
68. Rugged Gold (1994 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1950s, a widowed mother falls for an Alaskan gold miner, so they move to the Alaskan wilderness and try to find gold and happiness.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Jill Eikenberry, Art Hindle, Ari Magder, Graham Greene
Votes: 157
69. Flaming Feather (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush
Votes: 440
70. High Plains Invaders (2009 TV Movie)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A wild west town hosts the strangest showdown of all: against an invading army of extraterrestrials. Outlaws and townspeople must join forces to survive.
Director: Kristoffer Tabori | Stars: Constantin Barbulescu, Dan Bordeianu, Adriana Butoi, Antony Byrne
Votes: 1,406
71. Clash of the Wolves (1925)
Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into a nearby desert where they will terrorize the local residents.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Nanette, Charles Farrell, June Marlowe
Votes: 428 | Gross: $0.51M
72. Silver Dollar (1932)
TV-G | 83 min | Biography, Drama
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 471
73. Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948)
Passed | 167 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Crooks discover a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border but the treasure is hidden somewhere on land. In their efforts to find the hidden treasure they resort to murder and... See full summary »
Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Jim Bannon, Virginia Belmont, Anthony Warde, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 147
74. Desert Gold (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Monte Blue, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo
Votes: 172
75. Oro diablo (2000)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Novoa | Stars: Rocío Miranda, Laureano Olivares, Armando Gota, Pedro Lander
Votes: 76
76. Precious Find (1996)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Three adventurers leave Moon City and head towards the asteroids in search of gold.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Harold Pruett, Brion James
Votes: 632
77. King of the Royal Mounted (1940)
Approved | 211 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway
Votes: 114
78. The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Western
A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but the local townsfolk are keener about cash than religion.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O'Brian, Joey Forman
Votes: 101
79. The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western
A California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are swiftly run straight out of the camp. During a blizzard they take ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 235
80. White Fang (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jack London tale of a woman and weakling brother who inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger
Votes: 75
81. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
82. 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs goes a little crazy whenever he's standing close to gold, and the trait intrigues claim-jumping Klondike miner Chillicothe (Yosemite) Sam.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 857
83. Mad Dog McCree (1990 Video Game)
Action, Western
The player must stop villainous Mad Dog McCree and his gang of outlaws, who've robbed the bank, locked up the sheriff, tied up the mayor and kidnapped his lovely daughter. The game is not completely linear.
Director: David O. Roberts | Stars: Rusty Dillen, Ben Zeller
Votes: 94
84. The Barrier (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Norman Kerry, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Marceline Day
Votes: 26
85. Detouring America (1939)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 355
86. The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980)
96 min | Action, Adventure
When oil is discovered in a small-town, some greedy prospectors hire a gang of wild bikers to scare the townsfolk away. However, when a group of young pilots stumble across the underhanded plot, they plan an effective retaliation.
Director: Lawrence David Foldes | Stars: Aldo Ray, William Marshall, Terry Michos, Russell Johnson
Votes: 63
87. Yellow Dust (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Western
Eastern educated Bob Culpepper, along with grizzled prospector Solitary, hit the mother lode and head to Gold Town to stake their claim. Along the way they chase off a gang of stagecoach ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olsen, Jessie Ralph
Votes: 210
88. Eureka Stockade (1949)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing
Votes: 211
89. The Treasure of Eagle Mountain (1995)
Drama, Family, Western
US Marshals Wichita Slim and Bill Gunner team up to help their friend Alonzo Keeler teach his son a valuable lesson. Follow the Marshals as they help to keep the boy safe from outlaws as ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Doerner | Stars: Richard Bennet, Ken Blount, Jimmy Blunt, Greg Boyd
Votes: 17
90. Gunfire (1950)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like out;aw causes suspicion to fall back on him.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Pamela Blake
Votes: 58
91. The Yellow Mountain (1954)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Lex Barker, Mala Powers, Howard Duff, William Demarest
Votes: 364
92. Bad Lands (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Western
A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Robert Barrat, Noah Beery Jr., Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Andy Clyde
Votes: 211
93. Northwest Rangers (1942)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane, John Carradine
Votes: 191
94. Alaska Passage (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Al Graham and Gerard Mason are partners in an Alaskan trucking company. They quarrel over expenses and losses. Graham has fallen for Tina Boyd, the cashier at a restaurant. Mason's wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Bill Williams, Leslie Bradley, Nora Hayden, Nick Dennis
Votes: 122
95. Sourdough (1981)
G | 94 min | Adventure, Western
A mountain man finds himself increasingly unable to find land free of bottle caps, beer cans and noisy gasoline engines, so he journeys through the dangerous and breathtaking wilderness searching for the purity and solitude he loves.
Director: Martin J. Spinelli | Stars: Charles Brock, Gene Evans, Philip Oksoktaruk, Gil Perry
Votes: 51
96. Sign of the Wolf (1941)
Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Because of a fight at a dog show between "Smoky" and "Shadow", Alsatian Shepherd dogs, owned and trained by Judy Weston, "Smoky" loses first prize. Judy sells "Shadow", but Ben, the trainer... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Michael Whalen, Grace Bradley, Darryl Hickman, Mantan Moreland
Votes: 68
97. Thunder Mountain (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Western
Gold prospector O'Brien stakes a claim but is cheated by a saloonkeepr. He plots revenge.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Barbara Fritchie, Frances Grant, Morgan Wallace
Votes: 56
98. Sierra Stranger (1957)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Romance, Western
After penniless miner Jess Collins saves Sonny Grover from two men he calls claim jumpers, he heads for the town of Colton. There Grover's brother grub stakes him and he waits for his claim... See full summary »
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Howard Duff, Gloria McGehee, Dick Foran, John Hoyt
Votes: 121
99. Overland Trails (1948)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Johnny Murdock, who hasn't seen his father for some time, learns at Gold Flats that he has been killed by road agents, according to mining engineer Carter Morgan of Brandon Enterprises. He ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Belmont, Bill Kennedy
Votes: 13
100. Ghost Town Renegades (1947)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Gold has been found and Sharp is out to get the land. He has the land owners killed and then has Watson forge new deeds. Cheyenne and Fuzzy arrive in time to save Trent. Then they go after the gang and its leader.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram
Votes: 163