The best Charles K. French’s western movies

Charles K. French

Charles K. French

17/01/1860- 02/08/1952
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

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

Cross Fire

Cross Fire
5.9/10
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.

The Red Rider

The Red Rider
6.9/10
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

Men with Steel Faces

Men with Steel Faces
4.4/10
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

Rustlers of Red Dog

Rustlers of Red Dog
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/01/1935
  • Character: Tom Lee [Chs. 1, 7-12]
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.

The Brand of Hate

The Brand of Hate
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/11/1934
  • Character: Mr. Camp
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.

Caught

Caught
6.7/10
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.

King of the Rodeo

King of the Rodeo
5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/01/1929

The Untamed

The Untamed
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/08/1920
  • Character: Tex Calder
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows). His daughter, Kate is immediately attracted to Dan, but Cumberland discourages the union since he thinks the young man is too wild for her.

Last of the Warrens

Last of the Warrens
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/05/1936
  • Character: Bruce Warren (as Chas. French)
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who intercepted his mail, rustled the Warren cattle, took over the Warren ranch, and is now after Ted's girl friend. When Kent's henchmen fail to kill Ted, Kent shoots Ted's father and leaves him for dead. But only wounded, the plan is to have Warren appear as a ghost to get a confession from Kent.

The Daredevil

The Daredevil
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 07/03/1920
  • Character: Ralph Spencer
When Timothy Atkinson arrives in a rough Western town to become the telegraph operator, the locals peg him as a tenderfoot.

The Man from Hell

The Man from Hell
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/08/1934
  • Character: Blacksmith Sandy
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.

The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire
6.2/10
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.

Desert Love

Desert Love
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/04/1920
  • Character: Jack Remington
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind a list of the men responsible for his murder. Twenty-five years later, his son, Buck Marston has grown up and followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a sheriff.

The Bargain

The Bargain
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/12/1914
  • Character: Bartender
After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.

The Terror

The Terror
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/05/1920
  • Character: Sheriff Jim Canby
Bat "No Limit" Carson, U.S. deputy marshal has to battle all types of varmints, including crooked dance hall proprietor "Con" Norton and his star entertainer, Fay La Cross. The booty is various gold shipments, and the beautiful heroine hails from the East.

The Meddlin' Stranger

The Meddlin' Stranger
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/06/1927
  • Character: Mr. Crawford
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.

No Man's Range

No Man's Range
6.2/10
Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in progress. Unknown to Jim, Ed Brady has kidnapped Oliver and replaced him with a stooge. Brady is after the Green ranch and Jim and Fuzz now set out to help Helen Green.

The Tiger Man

The Tiger Man
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/04/1918
Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.

Trail of Terror

Trail of Terror
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/12/1935
  • Character: Sheriff Baxter
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rejoin the gang. Muggs is the only one who knows where the stolen money is hidden and Manning is after it.

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