The best Robert Fiske’s western movies

Robert Fiske

Robert Fiske

20/10/1889- 12/09/1944
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Colorado

Colorado
5.9/10
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

Timber Stampede

Timber Stampede
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/06/1939
  • Character: Matt Chaflin
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.

The Purple Vigilantes

The Purple Vigilantes
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/01/1938
  • Character: George Drake
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.

Sunset Trail

Sunset Trail
7/10
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.

Law and Order

Law and Order
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/11/1940
  • Character: Ed Deal
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.

Vengeance of the West

Vengeance of the West
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/08/1942
  • Character: Gil Kirby
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.

Texas Terrors

Texas Terrors
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/11/1940
  • Character: Defense Attorney Barker
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst for vengeance, fueled by the death of his parents at the hands of a bloodthirsty mine jumper. Frustrated and fed up, Bob decides it's time to dust off his guns and holsters.

Colorado Trail

Colorado Trail
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/09/1938
  • Character: Deacon Webster
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.

Along the Rio Grande

Along the Rio Grande
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/02/1941
  • Character: Doc Randall
A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' murder.

The Texas Kid

The Texas Kid
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/11/1943
  • Character: Naylor
Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Texas Kid is part of the gang and Sandy thinks he is bad but Nevada knows him and thinks he may be good.

Cassidy of Bar 20

Cassidy of Bar 20
6.5/10
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.

Old Louisiana

Old Louisiana
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1937
  • Character: Luke E. Gilmore, Louisana Fur Co.
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.

Song of the Gringo

Song of the Gringo
5/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 22/11/1936
  • Character: Defense Attorney
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.

The Apache Kid

The Apache Kid
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/04/1941
  • Character: Joe Walker
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.

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