The best John Hamilton’s western movies

John Hamilton

John Hamilton

16/01/1887- 15/10/1958
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Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/10/1954
  • Character: Ulysses S. Grant
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf. Written by Jim Beaver

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On
7.2/10
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Boom Town

Boom Town
7/10
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun
6.9/10
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Canadian Pacific

Canadian Pacific
5.9/10
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

The Great Man's Lady

The Great Man's Lady
6.6/10
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 06/01/1950
  • Character: Col. Pollard
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.

Badman's Territory

Badman's Territory
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 04/05/1946
  • Character: Commissioner Taylor (uncredited)
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.

The Gallant Legion

The Gallant Legion
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/05/1948
  • Character: Speaker of the House
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.

Iron Mountain Trail

Iron Mountain Trail
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/05/1953
  • Character: Circuit Judge
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.

The Wyoming Bandit

The Wyoming Bandit
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/07/1949
  • Character: Marshal
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking revenge for his son's murder, Dan enlists the help of Rocky Lane (Allan Lane), who poses as an outlaw to try to uncover the truth. When the duo manage to track down the killer, they find him armed to the teeth.

Bandit King of Texas

Bandit King of Texas
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/08/1949
  • Character: John Turner
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed by McCabe's gang. When Rocky comes to Elko to find his friend Jim, he winds up in Jail on a charge of stealing money from the new Marshal. The only person in town that is on his side is Nugget, but there is little that he can do by himself. When Rocky escapes from the jail with another prisoner and the Marshal is shot, he has to find who is behind his problems and what has happened to Jim and Emily.

Sheriff of Wichita

Sheriff of Wichita
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/01/1949
  • Character: Prison Warden
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major Bishop, neither the money or Bishop have ever been found and Raymond was convicted of the theft. Now he is at the abandoned fort, an escaped convict with a letter, looking to find the truth about the robbery. Members of his old command are also there and Rocky shows up to return Raymond to prison.

Northwest Trail

Northwest Trail
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/11/1945
  • Character: John Owens
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.

Marshal of Cedar Rock

Marshal of Cedar Rock
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1953
  • Character: Stover - Prison Warden
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason

Sheriff of Las Vegas

Sheriff of Las Vegas
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/12/1944
  • Character: Judge Homer T. Blackwell
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.

Desperadoes of Dodge City

Desperadoes of Dodge City
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1948
  • Character: Land Agent
Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the stagecoach has it. When Rocky and the four get trapped in a shack by the outlaw gang, he learns that one of the four is the gang leader. Rocky has to learn his identity and retrieve the message.

Zorro's Black Whip

Zorro's Black Whip
6.2/10
Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.

Home on the Range

Home on the Range
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1946
  • Character: State Official
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. Trouble lies ahead.....

Jack McCall Desperado

Jack McCall Desperado
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1953
  • Character: Col. Cornish
During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the Confederates.

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