The best John Maxwell’s western movies

John Maxwell

John Maxwell

11/03/1918- 18/07/1982
Today we present the best John Maxwell’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 John Maxwell’s movies.

The Paleface

The Paleface
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 17/12/1948
  • Character: Village gossip
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Backlash

Backlash
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/04/1956
  • Character: Col. Welnick
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/01/1942
  • Character: Rancher
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Arizona Terrors

Arizona Terrors
5.2/10
Madden has forged a phony Spanish land grant and gets crooked gambler Halliday to pose as the heir....

The Last Horseman

The Last Horseman
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/06/1944
  • Character: Cash Watson
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.

Devil's Canyon

Devil's Canyon
5.4/10
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Frank Scovie
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.

The Omaha Trail

The Omaha Trail
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1942
  • Character: Croupier
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

The Lone Prairie

The Lone Prairie
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/10/1942
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.

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