The best Brian Keith’s western movies

Brian Keith

Brian Keith

14/11/1921- 24/06/1997
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Young Guns

Young Guns
6.8/10
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith
6.9/10
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.

Arrowhead

Arrowhead
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 03/08/1953
  • Character: Capt. Bill North
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance.

The Rare Breed

The Rare Breed
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/02/1966
  • Character: Alexander Bowen
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 23/06/1965
  • Character: Frank Wallingham
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men
6.3/10
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur trappers. The mountain men take her in, unaware that Heavy Eagle has dispatched an army of Indian braves to reclaim her.

Something Big

Something Big
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 19/11/1971
  • Character: Col. Morgan
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

Scandalous John

Scandalous John
5.8/10
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Savage Sam

Savage Sam
6/10
Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.

The Violent Men

The Violent Men
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/01/1955
  • Character: Cole Wilkison
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
6.1/10
  • Genre: TV MovieWestern
  • Release: 11/11/1987
  • Character: Colonel Davy Crockett
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.

Fort Dobbs

Fort Dobbs
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1958
  • Character: Clett
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ Conway.

The Raiders

The Raiders
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/12/1963
  • Character: McElroy
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.

The Deadly Companions

The Deadly Companions
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/06/1961
  • Character: Yellowleg
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

The Quest

The Quest
6/10
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt Russell), whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin (Tim Matheson), a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.

The Bull Of The West

The Bull Of The West
5.4/10
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).

Sierra Baron

Sierra Baron
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1958
  • Character: Jack McCrackin
Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights.

Run of the Arrow

Run of the Arrow
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/09/1957
  • Character: Captain Clark
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.

Villa!!

Villa!!
4.8/10
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared
5.5/10
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.

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