The best Paul E. Burns’s western movies

Paul E. Burns

Paul E. Burns

26/01/1881- 17/05/1967
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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident
8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/03/1943
  • Character: Winder (uncredited)
Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Croft eventually join a posse out to get the criminals, who also may be involved in a recent shooting. When the posse closes in on a group that could be the fugitives, they must decide on a course of action, with numerous lives hanging in the balance.

Western Union

Western Union
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Stagecoach Depot Master
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Apache

Apache
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/07/1954
  • Character: General Store Proprietor (uncredited)
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.

Gunman's Walk

Gunman's Walk
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1958
  • Character: Cook
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

Belle Starr

Belle Starr
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/09/1941
  • Character: Sergeant
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface
6.8/10
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Face of a Fugitive

Face of a Fugitive
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/05/1959
  • Character: Jake, the barber
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold
6.8/10
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.

Frenchie

Frenchie
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/12/1950
  • Character: Rednose
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
6.9/10
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Adventures in Silverado

Adventures in Silverado
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/03/1948
  • Character: Sam Perkins
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.

Flaming Feather

Flaming Feather
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1952
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.

Brigham Young

Brigham Young
6.3/10
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.

Renegades

Renegades
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/06/1946
  • Character: Alkali Kid
The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/01/1942
  • Character: Kidnapper
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Montana

Montana
6.2/10
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.

Relentless

Relentless
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/06/1948
  • Character: Len Briggs
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.

Santa Fe

Santa Fe
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1951
  • Character: Uncle Dick Wootton
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Domino Kid

Domino Kid
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1957
  • Character: Tom Barnes
A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.

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