The best R. G. Armstrong’s western movies

R. G. Armstrong

R. G. Armstrong

07/04/1917- 27/07/2012
Today we present the best R. G. Armstrong’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 R. G. Armstrong’s movies.
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My Name Is Nobody

My Name Is Nobody
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Honest John
Jack Beauregard, one of the greatest gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

Lone Wolf McQuade

Lone Wolf McQuade
6.3/10
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.

El Dorado

El Dorado
7.5/10
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Major Dundee

Major Dundee
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/04/1965
  • Character: Reverend Dahlstrom
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/05/1973
  • Character: Ollinger
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
7.2/10
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.

Purgatory

Purgatory
6.8/10
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven...or screw up and go to Hell.

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/06/1962
  • Character: Joshua Knudsen
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

The Shadow Riders

The Shadow Riders
6.6/10
  • Genre: TV MovieWestern
  • Release: 28/09/1982
  • Character: Sheriff Miles Gillette
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.

Boss Nigger

Boss Nigger
6.3/10
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet
7.2/10
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 12/05/1972
  • Character: Clell Miller
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

From Hell to Texas

From Hell to Texas
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1958
  • Character: Hunter Boyd
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.

The McMasters

The McMasters
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/08/1970
  • Character: Watson
Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' ex-master Burl Ives magnanimously gives the former slave a plot of land, but only Native-American David Carradine and his tribesmen are willing to work for a black man. The "invasion" of Indians serves to stir up the racial divisiveness even farther, thanks to local rabble-rouser Jack Palance.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
5.6/10
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves, train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.

Red Headed Stranger

Red Headed Stranger
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/10/1986
  • Character: Sheriff Reese Scoby
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man she had left him for. It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-Loving preacher to ruthless outlaw.

Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared
5.5/10
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Justin Morgan Had a Horse
6.7/10
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.

He Rides Tall

He Rides Tall
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/02/1964
  • Character: Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.

Running Wild

Running Wild
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/08/1973
  • Character: Bull
A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.

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