The best Harry Woods’s action movies

Harry Woods

Harry Woods

05/05/1889- 28/12/1968
Today we present the best Harry Woods’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 Harry Woods’s movies.
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Tycoon

Tycoon
6.1/10
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter

Human Cargo

Human Cargo
6.2/10
Bonnie Brewster (Claire Trevor) and "Packy" Campbell (Brian Donlevy), rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin (Harry Woods, posing as government officials take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro (Rita Hayworth).

Sheriff of Tombstone

Sheriff of Tombstone
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 07/05/1941
  • Character: Shotgun Cassidy
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.

Range Defenders

Range Defenders
5.8/10
Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his innocence. But they find that Harvey rules the town along with his stooge Sheriff Gray and that George won't get a fair trial.

Winners of the West

Winners of the West
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 02/07/1940
  • Character: King Carter
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.

Western Heritage

Western Heritage
5.9/10
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, shoot the forger, and take the deed while Russ tries unsuccessfully to stop them. Arnold presents it at the recorders office. It appears authentic and he starts evicting ranchers from their land. But Russ knows something is wrong as one of Arnold's men was a man he fought with during the attack.

The Ranger and the Lady

The Ranger and the Lady
5.9/10
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.

Code of the West

Code of the West
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/02/1947
  • Character: Nate Hatfield
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action.

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

Mr. Moto in Danger Island
6.7/10
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.

West of the Pecos

West of the Pecos
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 10/08/1945
  • Character: Brad Sawtelle
West of the Pecos is a 1945 American Western film directed by Edward Killy and starring Robert Mitchum. The movie is the third film version of Zane Grey's novel.

Blue Montana Skies

Blue Montana Skies
6.6/10
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border.

Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain
6.3/10
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch and tries to kill Hayden. When he fails he kills Chick Jorth with a rock. As Hayden does not carry a gun and the two had argued earlier, Hayden is arrested for the murder. With Hayden in jail, his friends Chito, Ginger, and his Lawyer Gardner now go to work to find the murderer.

Crime Takes a Holiday

Crime Takes a Holiday
6.6/10
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Robin Hood of El Dorado
5.9/10
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.

Rustlers of Red Dog

Rustlers of Red Dog
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.

The Phantom Rider

The Phantom Rider
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 06/07/1936
  • Character: Harvey Delaney
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.

Sunset Pass

Sunset Pass
5.5/10
A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him. But he is rescued and reformed by his sister, and an undercover agent for the express company.

The Viking

The Viking
6.6/10
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.

Silver City Kid

Silver City Kid
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/07/1944
  • Character: Judge Ballard
A landowner tries to drink his neighbor's molybdenum milkshake and winds up having him killed. It's up to Allan Lane to find out what happened and apprehend the culprits.

Wolves of the North

Wolves of the North
2.6/10
The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.

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