The best Hugh O'Brian’s western movies

Hugh O'Brian

Hugh O'Brian

19/04/1925- 05/09/2016
Today we present the best Hugh O'Brian’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 Hugh O'Brian’s movies.
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The Shootist

The Shootist
7.6/10
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.

Vengeance Valley

Vengeance Valley
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/02/1951
  • Character: Dick Fasken
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

Seminole

Seminole
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1953
  • Character: Kajeck
19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade, Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. The fact that Caldwell was the boyhood chum of Seminole chief Osceola is all the more reason to resist Dade's genocidal policies. After a deadly confrontation which costs dozens of lives on both sides, Osceola rescues Caldwell, whereupon the latter is court-martialed. Later on, Osceola comes to Fort King to talk peace, and is promptly killed by persons unknown. An attempt is made to frame Caldwell for the killing, but the truth eventually prevails.

Broken Lance

Broken Lance
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/09/1954
  • Character: Mike Devereaux
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.

Wild Women

Wild Women
5.6/10
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840

The Lawless Breed

The Lawless Breed
6.3/10
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/03/1954
  • Character: Carl Smith
Alan Ladd and Jay Silverheels (television's Tonto) are blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Wyatt Earp (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

White Feather

White Feather
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 16/02/1955
  • Character: American Horse
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.

The Man from the Alamo

The Man from the Alamo
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/08/1953
  • Character: Lt. Tom Lamar
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

The Cimarron Kid

The Cimarron Kid
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/01/1952
  • Character: Red Buck
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.

The Fiend Who Walked The West

The Fiend Who Walked The West
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/08/1958
  • Character: Daniel Slade Hardy
Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western about a psychotic gunman stars Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, June Blair, Edward Andrews, Ron Ely and Emile Meyer.

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
5.7/10
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film shows the return of the legendary former Marshal Wyatt Earp to his old stomping grounds. He visits old friends, teaches bad guys some manners and reveals secrets about his early life.

The Brass Legend

The Brass Legend
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1956
  • Character: Sheriff Wade Addams
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner

The Raiders

The Raiders
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/10/1952
  • Character: Hank Purvis
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.

Cave of Outlaws

Cave of Outlaws
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/11/1951
  • Character: Garth
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.

The Battle at Apache Pass

The Battle at Apache Pass
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1952
  • Character: Lt. Robert Harley
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.

Little Big Horn

Little Big Horn
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/06/1951
  • Character: Pvt. Al DeWalt
Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush.

Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1954
  • Character: Morgan
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

The Return of Jesse James

The Return of Jesse James
5.8/10
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

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