The best Gordon Jones’s western movies

Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

05/04/1911- 20/06/1963
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McLintock!

McLintock!
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 12/11/1963
  • Character: Matt Douglas
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
6.7/10
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.

Black Midnight

Black Midnight
6.3/10
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.

Smoke Signal

Smoke Signal
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1955
  • Character: Cpl. Rogers
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.

Woman They Almost Lynched

Woman They Almost Lynched
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/03/1953
  • Character: Yankee Sergeant
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/12/1940
  • Character: Ranger Radio Man
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

Wagon Team

Wagon Team
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/09/1952
  • Character: Marshal Sam Taplin
Gene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western complete with a showdown. Gene poses as a jailbird to wangle the truth from a boy (Dick Jones) suspected of stealing an Army payroll. When the youngster escapes from lockup and rejoins his family's medicine show, intrigue is in the wind as Gene tries to solve the mystery of the missing money and to save the lad from a vicious mob. Pat Buttram co-stars.

Trigger, Jr.

Trigger, Jr.
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/06/1950
  • Character: Splinters
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.

Sunset in the West

Sunset in the West
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/09/1950
  • Character: Splinters
Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.

The Palomino

The Palomino
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/03/1950
  • Character: Bill Hennessey
A young man helps a pretty girl search for her stolen horse. (A society boy tries to help a beautiful woman save her horse-breeding farm.)

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/05/1957
  • Character: Will Clegg
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.

Black Eagle

Black Eagle
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/09/1948
  • Character: Benjy Laughton
Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end up fleecing our hero in one way or another. Even so, Jason manages to enjoy a brief romance with pretty Ginny Long (Virginia Patton) before returning to his life of carefree vagabondage. A very minor film, The Black Eagle makes the most of its excellent supporting cast, including Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette, Will Wright and stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge.

The Ghost of Crossbones Canyon

The Ghost of Crossbones Canyon
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1952
  • Character: Curly Wolf
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

Spoilers of the Plains

Spoilers of the Plains
6.4/10
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.

Treasure Of Ruby Hills

Treasure Of Ruby Hills
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/01/1955
  • Character: Jack Voyle
Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.

Trail of Robin Hood

Trail of Robin Hood
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1950
  • Character: Splinters McGonigle
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.

The Untamed Breed

The Untamed Breed
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/10/1948
  • Character: Happy Keegan
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.

The Outlaw Stallion

The Outlaw Stallion
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/07/1954
  • Character: Wagner
A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy Gray, Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Dorothy Patrick, Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette and Morris Ankrum.

Heart of the Rockies

Heart of the Rockies
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/03/1951
  • Character: Splinters McGonigle
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.

Sons of Adventure

Sons of Adventure
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1948
  • Character: Andy Baldwin
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.

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