The best Charles McGraw’s western movies

Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw

10/05/1914- 30/07/1980
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Hang 'em High

Hang 'em High
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/07/1968
  • Character: Sheriff Ray Calhoun
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Cimarron

Cimarron
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1960
  • Character: Bob Yountis
The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.

Blood on the Moon

Blood on the Moon
6.9/10
Mitchum plays drifter cowboy Jim Garry. After receiving a job-offer letter from smooth-talking Tate Riling (Preston), Garry rides into an Indian reservation and finds himself in the middle of a feud between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. What Garry doesn't realize is that Riling, the man he now works for, is crooked.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/10/1969
  • Character: Sheriff Frank Wilson
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.

The Wonderful Country

The Wonderful Country
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/10/1959
  • Character: Dr. Stovall
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.

Thunder Over the Plains

Thunder Over the Plains
6.4/10
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter (Randolph Scott), a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman, (Charles McGraw), whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.

War Paint

War Paint
5.7/10
An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.

Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1958
  • Character: Larry Venables, Gunfighter
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.

Joe Dakota

Joe Dakota
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Cal Moore
A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.

On the Old Spanish Trail

On the Old Spanish Trail
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 15/10/1947
  • Character: Harry Blaisdell
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.

The Devil and Miss Sarah

The Devil and Miss Sarah
6.1/10
  • Genre: HorrorWestern
  • Release: 04/12/1971
  • Character: Marshal Duncan
A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.

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