The best Boris Karloff’s western movies

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

23/11/1887- 02/02/1969
Today we present the best Boris Karloff’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Boris Karloff’s movies.

Tap Roots

Tap Roots
6.5/10
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist (Ward Bond) and a Native American gentleman (Boris Karloff). The abolitionist's daughter (Susan Hayward) is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher (Van Heflin) when her fiance (Whitfield Connor), a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister (Julie London). The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

The Vanishing Legion

The Vanishing Legion
6.8/10
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.

Burning the Wind

Burning the Wind
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/02/1929
  • Character: Pug Doran
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.

The Utah Kid

The Utah Kid
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/11/1930
  • Character: Henchman Baxter
The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws running from the law where he meets and falls for a waylaid school teacher.

The Man in the Saddle

The Man in the Saddle
6.4/10

The Hellion

The Hellion
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/07/1924
  • Character: The Outlaw
Ranch hand Tex Gardy comes to the aid of the father of the girl he loves, whose ranch is being threatened by a gang of criminals led by a woman known as The Hellion.

Riders of the Plains

Riders of the Plains
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1924
B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters.

The Vanishing Rider

The Vanishing Rider
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/01/1928
  • Character: The Villain
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud Osborne, as the notorious Butch Bradley, and a young Boris Karloff took care of the villainy.

The Meddlin' Stranger

The Meddlin' Stranger
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/06/1927
  • Character: Al Meggs
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than Boris Karloff in this primitive silent oater from poverty row studio Action Pictures.

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