The best David Janssen’s western movies

David Janssen

David Janssen

27/03/1931- 13/02/1980
We present our ranking of the best David Janssen’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 David Janssen.

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1955
  • Character: Lt. Colin Cartwright
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.

Macho Callahan

Macho Callahan
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/08/1970
  • Character: Diego Callahan
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.

Pioneer Woman

Pioneer Woman
6/10
A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Verne Ward
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.

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