The best Karl Swenson’s western movies

Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson

23/07/1908- 08/10/1978
We present our ranking of the best Karl Swenson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Karl Swenson.
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The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/03/1959
  • Character: Tom Flaunce
Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realising that he can exploit his secret.

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1962
  • Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Major Dundee

Major Dundee
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/04/1965
  • Character: Captain Waller
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

North to Alaska

North to Alaska
6.9/10
Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 24/05/1962
  • Character: Rev. Hoskins (prison inmate)
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Ulzana's Raid

Ulzana's Raid
7/10
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Sons of Katie Elder
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/06/1965
  • Character: Doc Isdell
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet
7.2/10
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Flaming Star

Flaming Star
6.5/10
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.

The Gun and the Pulpit

The Gun and the Pulpit
5.7/10
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.

The Wild Country

The Wild Country
6.2/10
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.

One Foot in Hell

One Foot in Hell
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/09/1960
  • Character: Sheriff Ole Olson
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.

The Man from Galveston

The Man from Galveston
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1963
  • Character: Sheriff
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Brighty of the Grand Canyon
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/11/1966
  • Character: Theodore Roosevelt
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim jumper robs the pair of their strike, killing Old Timer in the process. Brighty then sets out on a quest -- befriending a mountain lion hunter along the way -- to bring Old Timer's murderer to justice in this drama based on the best-seller by Marguerite Henry.

Cimarron Strip: Broken Wing

Cimarron Strip: Broken Wing
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1967
When a parson is shot, Crown arrests the son of a prominent rancher. When the preacher recovers and refuses to press charges, a rabble-rousing saloon owner and his gun-toting sidekick try to organize a lynching party.

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