The best Kent Taylor’s western movies

Kent Taylor

Kent Taylor

11/05/1907- 11/04/1987
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kent Taylor’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 Kent Taylor.

Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/05/1964
  • Character: Attorney Rand McDonald
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/06/1942
  • Character: Doc Holliday
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Walk Tall

Walk Tall
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1960
  • Character: Frank Carter
To keep peace, an Army captain (Willard Parker) hunts for an outlaw-gang leader (Kent Taylor) who is raiding Indians.

The Iron Sheriff

The Iron Sheriff
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1957
  • Character: Phil Quincy
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie (Darryl Hickman). Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.

The Broken Land

The Broken Land
5.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1962
  • Character: Marshal Jim Cogan
A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.

Western Pacific Agent

Western Pacific Agent
5.9/10
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.

Frontier Gambler

Frontier Gambler
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1956
  • Character: Roger Chadwick
A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".

The Firebrand

The Firebrand
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/08/1962
  • Character: Maj. Tim Bancroft
A Mexican outlaw begins a one-man war against corrupt California Rangers who are harassing Hispanic locals during the California Gold Rush.

The Mysterious Rider

The Mysterious Rider
6.4/10
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.

Fort Bowie

Fort Bowie
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1958
  • Character: Col. James Garrett
Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.

The Daltons Ride Again

The Daltons Ride Again
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/11/1945
  • Character: Bob Dalton
In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.

The Purple Hills

The Purple Hills
5.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/10/1961
  • Character: Johnny Barnes
When a bounty hunter kills an outlaw for the reward, he has to deal with both a man falsely claiming he made the kill, and the revengeful brother of the dead man.

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