The best Dean Jagger’s western movies

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

07/11/1903- 05/02/1991
Today we present the best Dean Jagger’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 Dean Jagger’s movies.
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The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1958
  • Character: Harry Burleigh
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman's struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it--and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.

Pursued

Pursued
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/03/1947
  • Character: Grant
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Western Union

Western Union
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Edward Creighton
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

Rawhide

Rawhide
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/03/1951
  • Character: Yancy
Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go round that these men have been caught. Can you guess where the outlaws decide to hide out while they plan a large gold robbery? What follows is a film that concentrates on small details (like attempts to slip a warning note to a passing stage, or to reach a hidden gun that the bad guys don't know about) as the captives try anything to get away from the outlaws.

Forty Guns

Forty Guns
7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Sheriff Ned Logan
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

The Hanged Man

The Hanged Man
5.6/10
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.

Firecreek

Firecreek
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/01/1968
  • Character: Whittier
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Warpath

Warpath
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: Sam Quade
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.

Day of the Evil Gun

Day of the Evil Gun
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1968
  • Character: Jimmy Noble
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

Brigham Young

Brigham Young
6.3/10
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.

Red Sundown

Red Sundown
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1956
  • Character: Sheriff Jade Murphy
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.

Denver and Rio Grande

Denver and Rio Grande
5.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureWestern
  • Release: 16/05/1952
  • Character: General William J. Palmer
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.

Sierra

Sierra
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1950
  • Character: Jeff Hassard
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).

Valley of the Sun

Valley of the Sun
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/02/1942
  • Character: Jim Sawyer
An Arizona frontiersman (James Craig) steals an Indian agent's girlfriend (Lucille Ball), followed by trouble.

Home on the Range

Home on the Range
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1935
  • Character: Thurman
Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.

Smith!

Smith!
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/03/1969
  • Character: Judge James C. Brown
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.

The Omaha Trail

The Omaha Trail
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1942
  • Character: 'Pipestone' Ross
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Wanderer of the Wasteland
5.8/10
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.

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