The best Chester Gan’s western movies

Chester Gan

Chester Gan

04/07/1908- 29/06/1959
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Chester Gan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Chester Gan.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
  • Genre: HistoryWestern
  • Release: 31/12/1937
  • Character: Chinese Workman
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Chinese Train Passenger (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

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.

Rawhide Rangers

Rawhide Rangers
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/07/1941
  • Character: Sing Lo
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.

The Carson City Kid

The Carson City Kid
6/10
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.

Heart of the Golden West

Heart of the Golden West
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/11/1942
  • Character: Popen's Chinese Cook
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.

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.

Moonlight on the Prairie

Moonlight on the Prairie
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/11/1935
  • Character: Barbara's Cook
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

The Mexicali Kid

The Mexicali Kid
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/09/1938
  • Character: Mo Cort-Chinese Cook
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.

Fighting Thru

Fighting Thru
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/08/1934
  • Character: Wong
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men. They hire on at the Lund ranch and when her cattle are rustled and she is kidnaped they follow the trail, It's Lenahan and his gang and Reb soon finds himself a prisoner.

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