The best Howard Petrie’s movies

Howard Petrie

Howard Petrie

22/11/1906- 24/03/1968
We present our ranking of the best Howard Petrie’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 Howard Petrie.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7.3/10
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

The Tin Star

The Tin Star
7.3/10
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

Bend of the River

Bend of the River
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/02/1952
  • Character: Tom Hendricks
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying
6.7/10
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

The Racket

The Racket
6.7/10
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.

The Wild North

The Wild North
6.5/10
A trapper is accused of a crime and is tracked doggedly through the mountains by a lawman.

Border River

Border River
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/01/1954
  • Character: Newlund
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger
6.5/10
A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter (Valli).

The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter
6.6/10
A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn
5.9/10
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint (Denver Pyle) is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura (Mala Powers), who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…

Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1952
  • Character: Sheriff
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.

Sign of the Pagan

Sign of the Pagan
5.9/10
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.

Cattle Drive

Cattle Drive
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/08/1951
  • Character: Cap
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.

The Red Ball Express

The Red Ball Express
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 24/05/1952
  • Character: Gen Gordon
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.

The Veils of Bagdad

The Veils of Bagdad
6.2/10
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!

The Maverick Queen

The Maverick Queen
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/05/1956
  • Character: Butch Cassidy
A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.

Trouble Along the Way

Trouble Along the Way
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1953
  • Character: Marvin Adams
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain
6.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureWestern
  • Release: 01/01/1950
  • Character: Cole Smith / California Beal
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld

The Return of Jack Slade

The Return of Jack Slade
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/10/1955
  • Character: Joseph Ryan
To redeem his father's wrongdoings, Ericson joins the law to fight outlaws.

Pony Soldier

Pony Soldier
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1952
  • Character: Insp. Frazer
Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide in this endeavor is the not-too-trustworthy half-breed Natayo.

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