The best Paul Hurst’s western movies

Paul Hurst

Paul Hurst

15/10/1888- 27/02/1953
Today we present the best Paul Hurst’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 Paul Hurst’s movies.
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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident
8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/03/1943
  • Character: Monty Smith
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.

Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman
6.8/10
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family, but his troubled past follows him.

The Westerner

The Westerner
7.3/10
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

Yellow Sky

Yellow Sky
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeWestern
  • Release: 24/12/1948
  • Character: Drunk (uncredited)
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

Dakota

Dakota
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1945
  • Character: Captain Spotts
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..

Tide of Empire

Tide of Empire
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/03/1929
  • Character: Poppy
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.

The Big Stampede

The Big Stampede
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/10/1932
  • Character: 'Arizona' Frank Bailey
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.

Girl Rush

Girl Rush
4.9/10
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.

Bad Lands

Bad Lands
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/08/1939
  • Character: Curly Tom
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.

Gun Smugglers

Gun Smugglers
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/12/1948
  • Character: Sergeant Hasty Jones
A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.

Sundown Jim

Sundown Jim
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/03/1942
  • Character: Broderick
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.

Calaboose

Calaboose
5.1/10
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.

Death Valley

Death Valley
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/08/1946
  • Character: Sergeant Dailey
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.

The Vanishing Westerner

The Vanishing Westerner
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/03/1950
  • Character: Waldorf Worthington
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.

Son of God’s Country

Son of God’s Country
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1948
  • Character: Eli Walker
Son of God's Country stars singing cowboy Monte Hale in his traditional screen role of do-gooder and last-minute problem-solver. This time, it's the old "evil land baron" plot again, with the villains eager to grab up all available ranch property, then sell it back to the incoming railroad.

Barbary Coast Gent

Barbary Coast Gent
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 01/09/1944
  • Character: Jake Compton
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

Law of the Golden West

Law of the Golden West
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/05/1949
  • Character: Otis Ellis
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.

The Plainsman and the Lady

The Plainsman and the Lady
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/11/1946
  • Character: Al
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

Ranger of Cherokee Strip
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/11/1949
  • Character: Sheriff Jug Mason
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.

San Antone Ambush

San Antone Ambush
4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/10/1949
  • Character: Happy Daniels
Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.

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