The best Chief Thunderbird’s movies

Chief Thunderbird

Chief Thunderbird

06/08/1866- 06/04/1946
We present our ranking of the best Chief Thunderbird’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Chief Thunderbird.
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North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
6.4/10
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Geronimo

Geronimo
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/11/1939
  • Character: Chief Eskiminzu
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 15/11/1935
  • Character: Sitting Bull (as Chief Thunder Bird)
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/01/1942
  • Character: Indian
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Silly Billies

Silly Billies
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1936
  • Character: Chief Cyclone
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy
4.7/10
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties
6.4/10
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...

Custer's Last Stand

Custer's Last Stand
4.7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 02/01/1936
  • Character: Rain-in-Face
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.

For the Service

For the Service
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1936
  • Character: Chief Big Bear
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy (Clifford Jones), the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy (Edward Keane). Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard (Fred Kohler) and his gang.

King of the Stallions

King of the Stallions
5.4/10
  • Release: 18/09/1942
Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

Cyclone of the Saddle

Cyclone of the Saddle
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/04/1935
  • Character: High Hawk
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.

Wild West Days

Wild West Days
6.5/10
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.

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