The best Arthur Loft’s western movies

Arthur Loft

Arthur Loft

25/05/1897- 01/01/1947
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They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On
7.2/10
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Texas

Texas
6.7/10
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones
6.5/10
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.

Silver Spurs

Silver Spurs
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/08/1943
  • Character: Bulldog Bailey
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.

In Old Oklahoma

In Old Oklahoma
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/12/1943
  • Character: Fenton
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

Days of Jesse James

Days of Jesse James
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/12/1939
  • Character: Sam Wyatt
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/01/1942
  • Character: Hooker
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Colorado

Colorado
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 15/09/1940
  • Character: Jim Macklin - Indian Commissioner
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

Bad Men of Missouri

Bad Men of Missouri
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/07/1941
  • Character: Marshal Capturing Youngers
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.

Southward Ho

Southward Ho
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 19/03/1939
  • Character: Captain Jeffries
A singing cowboy (Roy Rogers) and his sidekick (George "Gabby" Hayes) fight post-Civil War plunder in Texas.

The Carson City Kid

The Carson City Kid
6/10
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.

South of Santa Fe

South of Santa Fe
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/02/1942
  • Character: Peter Moreland
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Lights of Old Santa Fe
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 06/11/1944
  • Character: Bill Wetherbee
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.

Down Mexico Way

Down Mexico Way
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 15/10/1941
  • Character: Homer Gerard
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.

Rawhide

Rawhide
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 08/04/1938
  • Character: Ed Saunders
Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ranching. Lou expects to relax on his ranch but quickly joins Larry in the fight.

Back in the Saddle

Back in the Saddle
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: E.G. Blaine
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 poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Sheriff of Redwood Valley
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/03/1946
  • Character: Harvey Martin
Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there. Town leader Bidwell engineers a plot to steal the money and to blame it on the Reno Kid (Bob Steele) who has recently broken out of prison in order to clear himself of false charges that sent him there and caused him to lose his ranch. The badly-wounded sheriff turns his badge over to Red Ryder. Reno visits his wife, Molly and their ailing son Johnny, and Red, also wounded, is brought there by Little Beaver. There, Red begins to believe Reno's story about being innocent. Written by Les Adams

Public Cowboy No. 1

Public Cowboy No. 1
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/06/1937
  • Character: Jack Shannon
Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to steal the cows, butcher them in the field and ship them out before getting caught. This causes the town to bring in a modern NYC detective to catch the crooks, but will Autry and Frog be permanently out of a job?

Man from Oklahoma

Man from Oklahoma
6.1/10
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.

Texas Terrors

Texas Terrors
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/11/1940
  • Character: Olin Blake
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst for vengeance, fueled by the death of his parents at the hands of a bloodthirsty mine jumper. Frustrated and fed up, Bob decides it's time to dust off his guns and holsters.

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