Westerns
The American West has always fascinated movie goers, even though much of the Old West never was. Russian nobility toured, eccentric Englishwomen toured, and authors wrote wild stories that seeped into the minds of us all. Gunslingers, cattle rustlers and savage Indians are part of the myth. Other iconic elements include the hanging tree, stetsons amd spurs, lassos and Colt 45s, stagecoaches, gamblers, long-horned cattle and cattle drives, prostitutes (or madams) with a heart of gold, and more.
Alice's Westerns, or Cowboy Films are listed alphabetically below, be sure to check out 'Spaghetti Westerns' sub-featured in green on the left, and 'TV Westerns' under 'Television Shows'.
The Singing Hill (1941)
6.9/10
Director: Lew Landers
Starring: Gene Autry
The free grazing land that the local ranchers have used for years is about to be sold to John R. Ramsey (George Meeker), a greedy, grasping cattle bro... Read more
Ridin On A Rainbow (1941)
7.7/10
Director: Lew Landers
Starring: Gene Autry
Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to a showboat. There he finds that teenage singer Patsy's father has been working with the robbers to... Read more
Back In The Saddle (1941)
5.6/10
Director: Lew Landers
Starring: Gene Autry
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is pois... Read more
Down Mexico Way (1941)
6.7/10
Starring: Gene Autry
After the bad guys swindle the good folk of Sage City, Gene and Frog chase them to Mexico where they are now trying to rob a rich Mexican ranchero. Read more
Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
6.8/10
Director: George Sherman
Starring: Gene Autry
A mine owner dies and leaves half to Gene and half to easterner Barbara Erwin. Gene wants to continue operation of the mine as requested in the will b... Read more
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
7.3/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Arthur Kennedy, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn,...
Errol Flynn stars as the eccentric yet (in this version) heroic General George Armstrong Custer, beginning with his time at West Point and ending, nat... Read more
North West Mounted Police (1940)
6.5/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston...
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Can... Read more
Arizona (1940)
6.7/10
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Starring: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
During the 1860s Tucson, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent loc... Read more
The Westerner (1940)
7.5/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
A classic tale of range wars in the late 1800s, with Gary Cooper as a wanderer who finds himself in the middle. Walter Brennan won his third Oscar as... Read more
The Return of Frank James (1940)
6.7/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull
Fabled Missouri outlaw Frank James, brother of the legendary Jesse James straps on his six-shooters and rides out for revenge in director Fritz Lang's... Read more