The best Richard Dix’s western movies

Richard Dix

Richard Dix

18/07/1893- 20/09/1949
Today we present the best Richard Dix’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 Richard Dix’s movies.

Cimarron

Cimarron
5.8/10
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

The Kansan

The Kansan
5.6/10
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.

Womanhandled

Womanhandled
6.3/10
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.

The Arizonian

The Arizonian
6.8/10
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.

Buckskin Frontier

Buckskin Frontier
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/05/1943
  • Character: Stephen Brent
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/06/1942
  • Character: Wyatt Earp
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Badlands Of Dakota

Badlands Of Dakota
6/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 15/09/1941
  • Character: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).

The Conquerors

The Conquerors
6.3/10
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

Yellow Dust

Yellow Dust
5.6/10
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

Redskin

Redskin
6.8/10
Wing Foot (Richard Dix), is a Navaho educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story he experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navahos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin."

Man of Conquest

Man of Conquest
6.1/10
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

American Empire

American Empire
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/12/1942
  • Character: Dan Taylor
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.

To the Last Man

To the Last Man
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 23/09/1923
  • Character: Jean Isbel

The Vanishing American

The Vanishing American
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/10/1925
  • Character: Nophaie
A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.

The Call of the Canyon

The Call of the Canyon
4.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/12/1923
  • Character: Glenn Kilbourne

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