The best Lester Dorr’s western movies

Lester Dorr

Lester Dorr

08/05/1893- 25/08/1980
Today we present the best Lester Dorr’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 Lester Dorr’s movies.
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The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
6.6/10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Pursued

Pursued
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/03/1947
  • Character: Dingle's Casino Boss (uncredited)
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Secret Valley

Secret Valley
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/01/1937
  • Character: Henchman Doc (uncredited)
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.

Hollywood Round-Up

Hollywood Round-Up
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/11/1937
  • Character: Louis Lawson
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.

Rodeo Dough

Rodeo Dough
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Rodeo Official
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo.

Robin Hood Of Texas

Robin Hood Of Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/07/1947
  • Character: Photographer
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.

Wolves of the Range

Wolves of the Range
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/06/1943
  • Character: Bank Teller
Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.

The Cisco Kid and the Lady

The Cisco Kid and the Lady
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Army Telegraph Operator
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

Night Riders of Montana

Night Riders of Montana
6.4/10
After being hit by rustlers, a group of Montana ranchers asks the governor to send state rangers for protection. State Ranger Rocky Lane becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a gang of horse rustlers and a young rancher who is blamed falsely for a killing. Lane helps uncover the real killers and unmasks the ringleader of the rustlers.

Covered Wagon Raid

Covered Wagon Raid
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/06/1950
  • Character: Bartender Pete
Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif (Dick Curtis), a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing and murdering settlers bound for the large Chandler ranch which has been cut up into small parcels of land for purchase.

Danger Ahead

Danger Ahead
5.3/10
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.

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