The best John Alvin’s western movies

John Alvin

John Alvin

24/10/1917- 27/02/2009
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Alvin’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Alvin.

San Antonio

San Antonio
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1945
  • Character: Pony Smith
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.

The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress
6.2/10
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Stallion Road

Stallion Road
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 12/04/1947
  • Character: Radio Broadcaster (uncredited)
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.

Kentucky Rifle

Kentucky Rifle
4.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1956
  • Character: Luke Thomas
A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.

Two Guys from Texas

Two Guys from Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 27/08/1948
  • Character: Jim Crocker
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.

The Bold Frontiersman

The Bold Frontiersman
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/04/1948
  • Character: Don Post
Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.

Under Colorado Skies

Under Colorado Skies
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1947
  • Character: Jeff Collins
Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He is about to leave to return to college when the bank is held up by two members of a notorious gang, headed by Marlowe, leaving Monte with the smoking gun of one of the bandits that killed the bank president. To avoid bringing disgrace on the family of his sweetheart, Julia Collins, by revealing that it was her brother Jeff, supposedly working in Denver, who induced him to open the back door of the bank to let the robbers in, Monte allows suspicion to rest on him until he can clear himself.

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