The best George O’Brien’s movies

George O’Brien

George O’Brien

19/04/1899- 04/09/1985
Today we present the best George O’Brien’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 George O’Brien’s movies.
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Fort Apache

Fort Apache
7.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/06/1948
  • Character: Capt. Sam Collingwood
In John Ford's sombre exploration of the mythology of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, Thursday attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/11/1927
  • Character: The Man (Anses)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/10/1964
  • Character: Major Braden
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/10/1949
  • Character: Maj. Mac Allshard
After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/06/1929
  • Character: Travis / Japheth
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse
7.2/10
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men
7.5/10
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed. A silent film directed by John Ford.

December 7th

December 7th
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionHistoryWar
  • Release: 01/01/1943
  • Character: Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Timber Stampede

Timber Stampede
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/06/1939
  • Character: Scott Baylor
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.

Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/09/1935
  • Character: Kal Emerson
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.

Ebb Tide

Ebb Tide
4.8/10
An old skipper, Captain Davis, has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish, is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick was once a gentleman. In Tahiti they board a schooner and a storm takes them to an uncharted island. Living there is pearl broker Richard Attwater, and his daughter Ruth. Attwater is bitter because a supposed friend stole his wife and he has sworn to wreak vengeance on any white man he happens to encounter. Davis and Huish want to get their hands on his pearls, while, Herrick falls in love with the man's daughter.

My Wild Irish Rose

My Wild Irish Rose
6.3/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 24/12/1947
  • Character: 'Duke' Muldoon
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.

The Dude Ranger

The Dude Ranger
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 21/09/1934
  • Character: Ernest 'Dude' Selby
An Easterner Inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He secretly signs on as a hired hand at his own ranch to discover who's stealing them.

Triple Justice

Triple Justice
6.2/10
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.

A Holy Terror

A Holy Terror
5.3/10
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/10/1936
  • Character: Daniel Boone
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.

Park Avenue Logger

Park Avenue Logger
5.8/10
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.

Bullet Code

Bullet Code
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/04/1940
  • Character: Steve Holden
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.

Painted Desert

Painted Desert
5.9/10
A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.

Stage to Chino

Stage to Chino
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/07/1940
  • Character: Dan Clark
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

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