The best Morris Ankrum’s western movies

Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

28/08/1896- 02/09/1964
We present our ranking of the best Morris Ankrum’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 Morris Ankrum.
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Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz
7/10
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Apache

Apache
6.3/10
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.

The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 25/04/1947
  • Character: A.J. Crane
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory
7.2/10
Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.

The Harvey Girls

The Harvey Girls
7/10
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

Guns of Diablo

Guns of Diablo
5.6/10
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.

Chief Crazy Horse

Chief Crazy Horse
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1955
  • Character: Red Cloud
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.

The Moonlighter

The Moonlighter
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/09/1953
  • Character: Alexander Prince
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!

Taza, Son of Cochise

Taza, Son of Cochise
5.6/10
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...

The Light of Western Stars

The Light of Western Stars
5.5/10
A prim Eastern woman heads West and ends up in the arms of a vulgar, alcoholic ranch hand.

Doomed Caravan

Doomed Caravan
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: Stephen Westcott
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.

Three Men From Texas

Three Men From Texas
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/11/1940
  • Character: Bruce Morgan
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.

Silver Lode

Silver Lode
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 23/07/1954
  • Character: Zachary Evans
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Ride 'Em Cowboy
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 13/02/1942
  • Character: Ace Anderson
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Gentle Annie

Gentle Annie
6.2/10
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.

Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1954
  • Character: Chief Ouray
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

Fort Osage

Fort Osage
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/02/1952
  • Character: Arthur Pickett
Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort Osage. Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory. Clay knows that he's in for a lot of trouble because of the treaty-violating activities of white criminals Pickett (Morris Ankrum) and Keane (Douglas Kennedy). Fortunately for the hero, Pickett and Keane double-cross each other somewhere along the line, weakening their ability to foment an all-out Indian attack. Jane Nigh co-stars as the in-the-dark daughter of one of the villains. Fort Osage was produced by Walter Mirisch, who later graduated to such big-budgeters as West Side Story and The Great Escape.

Fort Vengeance

Fort Vengeance
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/03/1953
  • Character: Chief Crowfoot
Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to brew with the Indians.

Southwest Passage

Southwest Passage
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1954
  • Character: Dr. Stanton
Director Ray Nazarro's 1954 western, originally filmed in 3-D, stars John Ireland and Joanne Dru as fugitive bank robbers who hide out by joining a government expedition bound for California.

Cattle Queen of Montana

Cattle Queen of Montana
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/11/1954
  • Character: J.I. 'Pop' Jones
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

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