The best Roscoe Ates’s western movies

Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

20/01/1895- 01/03/1962
Today we present the best Roscoe Ates’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 Roscoe Ates’s movies.
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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.

Can't Help Singing

Can't Help Singing
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/12/1944
  • Character: Lemuel (uncredited)
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.

Scarlet River

Scarlet River
6.1/10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

Three Texas Steers

Three Texas Steers
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/05/1939
  • Character: Sheriff Brown
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

Wild Country

Wild Country
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/01/1947
  • Character: Soapy Jones
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: Old Stuff
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.

Those Redheads from Seattle

Those Redheads from Seattle
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/10/1953
  • Character: Dan Taylor
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Bad Men of Missouri

Bad Men of Missouri
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/07/1941
  • Character: Lafe
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.

The Hawk of Powder River

The Hawk of Powder River
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/04/1948
  • Character: Soapy Jones
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Carlson) who's been targeted for murder by a notorious bandit known as "The Hawk".

Robin Hood of the Pecos

Robin Hood of the Pecos
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/01/1941
  • Character: Jailer Guffy
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.

Colorado Serenade

Colorado Serenade
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/06/1946
  • Character: Soapy
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job and they are aided by undercover man Nevada.

Range Beyond the Blue

Range Beyond the Blue
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/03/1947
  • Character: Soapy Jones
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take it upon themselves to champion the cause of stage-line owner Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery), who's being victimized by an unknown villain. Dean suspects that there's more to the case than mere robbery, and he's right: someone wants to gain control of Margie's business, and that someone is?

Riders of the Black Hills

Riders of the Black Hills
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/06/1938
  • Character: Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.

Thunder in the Pines

Thunder in the Pines
6.1/10
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.

Rancho Grande

Rancho Grande
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/03/1940
  • Character: Ranch Hand
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

Tumbleweed Trail

Tumbleweed Trail
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/07/1946
  • Character: Soapy Jones
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order to secure the ranch, which is believed to hold large silver deposits, the scheming relative contracts to have Ryan killed. He then presents a forged will to the court naming himself as the sole heir. Shocked by the tide of events, Ryan's two rightful heirs, his grown daughter Robin and young son "Freckles" are determined to remain on their father's property. Eddie and his sidekick, Soapy Jones, arrive on the scene in time to enter the fight on the side of Robin and "Freckles."

Wild West

Wild West
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/12/1946
  • Character: Soapy Jones
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.

Renegades of the West

Renegades of the West
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/11/1932
  • Character: Dr. Henry Fawcett
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

Check Your Guns

Check Your Guns
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/01/1948
  • Character: Soapy Jones
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.

Come on Danger!

Come on Danger!
5.6/10
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.

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