The best Bill Nestell’s movies

Bill Nestell

Bill Nestell

03/03/1893- 18/10/1966
We present our ranking of the best Bill Nestell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Bill Nestell.
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In Old California

In Old California
6.3/10
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

Hell's Heroes

Hell's Heroes
7.2/10
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.

Three Faces West

Three Faces West
6.1/10
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/06/1942
  • Character: Barfly
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

The Night Riders

The Night Riders
5.7/10
  • Genre: HistoryWestern
  • Release: 12/04/1939
  • Character: Allen - A Brawler
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.

Below the Border

Below the Border
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/01/1942
  • Character: Blacksmith
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can steal the family jewels. But the Rough Riders are on the job. Buck poses as a wanted outlaw to get into the gang, Tim as a cattle buyer, and Sandy is collecting information as the saloon janitor. As usual they pretend not to know each other. Written by Maurice Van Auken

In Old Colorado

In Old Colorado
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Lafe
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

Hopalong Cassidy Returns
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/10/1936
  • Character: Pete
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.

New Frontier

New Frontier
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/08/1939
  • Character: Townsman at the Dance
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.

Secrets of the Wastelands

Secrets of the Wastelands
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/11/1941
  • Character: Horse Seller
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.

The Woman of the Town

The Woman of the Town
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/12/1943
  • Character: Townsman
Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with product, so the film was deferred to United Artists. Nonetheless, the finished product has the "look" of a Paramount, right down to the presence of character actor Albert Dekker in a leading role. Dekker plays Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand (Claire Trevor), the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy (Barry Sullivan), Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.

Border Patrol

Border Patrol
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/04/1943
  • Character: Mine Guard
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Burly Saloon Waiter
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

Gold Is Where You Find It

Gold Is Where You Find It
6.2/10
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.

The Arizona Kid

The Arizona Kid
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/09/1939
  • Character: McBride Raider
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.

Outlaws of the Desert

Outlaws of the Desert
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1941
  • Character: Man from Waukegan
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.

Lost Canyon

Lost Canyon
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1942
  • Character: Burly Deputy
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.

The Ranger and the Lady

The Ranger and the Lady
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 30/07/1940
  • Character: Freight Wagon Driver
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.

Down Texas Way

Down Texas Way
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/05/1942
  • Character: Smitty the Blacksmith
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams

Silver Queen

Silver Queen
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

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