The best Don Beddoe’s western movies

Don Beddoe

Don Beddoe

01/07/1903- 19/01/1991
We present our ranking of the best Don Beddoe’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 Don Beddoe.
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River of No Return

River of No Return
6.6/10
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Warlock

Warlock
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/05/1959
  • Character: Doctor Wagner
A band of murderous cowboys have imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. When the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend Tom Morgan and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Texas Across the River

Texas Across the River
6.3/10
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.

Texas

Texas
6.7/10
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

California

California
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/02/1947
  • Character: Stark (uncredited)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.

Black Bart

Black Bart
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/03/1948
  • Character: J.T. Hall
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 Rawhide Years

The Rawhide Years
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/04/1956
  • Character: Frank Porter
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.

Carson City

Carson City
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/06/1952
  • Character: Charles Crocker
Mine owner William Sharon (Larry Keating) keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker (Thurston Hall), who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid (Randolph Scott) is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis (Raymond Massey).

The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress
6.2/10
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Man in the Saddle

Man in the Saddle
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/12/1951
  • Character: Love Bidwell (uncredited)
A small farmer and rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerfull neighbour. When the neighbour even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

Wyoming Renegades

Wyoming Renegades
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/03/1954
  • Character: Banker Horace Warren
Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.

Cow Country

Cow Country
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/04/1953
  • Character: Joe Davis
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.

Bullwhip

Bullwhip
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/05/1958
  • Character: Judge Carr
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/05/1957
  • Character: Mayor Sam Pelley
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.

Shut My Big Mouth

Shut My Big Mouth
6/10
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/05/1958
  • Character: David Cooper
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife.

The Man from Tumbleweeds

The Man from Tumbleweeds
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/05/1940
  • Character: Governor Dawson
Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

Rodeo King and the Senorita

Rodeo King and the Senorita
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/07/1951
  • Character: Mr. Richards
Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.

West of Abilene

West of Abilene
7.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/10/1940
  • Character: Forsyth
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.

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