The best Jan Merlin’s western movies

Jan Merlin

Jan Merlin

03/04/1925- 20/09/2019
Today we present the best Jan Merlin’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 Jan Merlin’s movies.

Guns of Diablo

Guns of Diablo
5.6/10
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.

Hell Bent for Leather

Hell Bent for Leather
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1960
  • Character: Travers
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Gunfight at Comanche Creek
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/11/1963
  • Character: Nielson
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?

A Day of Fury

A Day of Fury
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1956
  • Character: Billy Brand
A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade (Dale Robertson), a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/03/1958
  • Character: Frank Wittrock
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1956
  • Character: Viggo Tomlin
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.

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