The best Dan Duryea’s western movies

Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea

23/01/1907- 07/06/1968
Today we present the best Dan Duryea’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Dan Duryea’s movies.

Winchester '73

Winchester '73
7.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1950
  • Character: Waco Johnnie Dean
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Incident at Phantom Hill

Incident at Phantom Hill
6.2/10
  • Genre: AdventureWestern
  • Release: 01/07/1966
  • Character: Joseph Henry 'Joe' Barlow
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.

Night Passage

Night Passage
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/07/1957
  • Character: Whitey Harbin
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.

Taggart

Taggart
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1965
  • Character: Jay Jason
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.

Silver Lode

Silver Lode
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 23/07/1954
  • Character: Ned McCarty
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones
6.5/10
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.

Ride Clear of Diablo

Ride Clear of Diablo
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/02/1954
  • Character: Whitey Kincade
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

Stranger on the Run

Stranger on the Run
6.3/10
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.

Rails Into Laramie

Rails Into Laramie
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/04/1954
  • Character: Jim Shanessy
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.

Winchester '73

Winchester '73
5.5/10
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.

Black Bart

Black Bart
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/03/1948
  • Character: Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.

The Bounty Killer

The Bounty Killer
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/07/1965
  • Character: Willie Duggan
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.

Six Black Horses

Six Black Horses
6.4/10
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.

The Hills Run Red

The Hills Run Red
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/09/1966
  • Character: Col. Winny Getz
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.

He Rides Tall

He Rides Tall
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/02/1964
  • Character: Bart Thorne
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.

The Marauders

The Marauders
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/09/1955
  • Character: Avery
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Al Jennings of Oklahoma
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/01/1951
  • Character: Al Jennings
Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 western, about an outlaw who decides to go straight and become an attorney, stars Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry, Guinn Williams, Theresa Harris, James Griffith, Raymond Greenleaf, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt and Hank Patterson.

Gundown at Sandoval

Gundown at Sandoval
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1959
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues.

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