The best Spade Cooley’s western movies

Spade Cooley

Spade Cooley

17/12/1910- 23/11/1969
Today we present the best Spade Cooley’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 Spade Cooley’s movies.
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Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again
7.6/10
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

Melody Ranch

Melody Ranch
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1940
  • Character: Melody Ranch Band Musician
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Lost Canyon

Lost Canyon
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1942
  • Character: Fiddle Player
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne
6.1/10
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Bad Man of Deadwood

Bad Man of Deadwood
5.7/10
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

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.

Square Dance Jubilee

Square Dance Jubilee
4.1/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 11/11/1949
  • Character: Spade Cooley
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.

Nevada City

Nevada City
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/06/1941
  • Character: Musician
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.

Young Bill Hickok

Young Bill Hickok
5.7/10
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.

Robin Hood of the Pecos

Robin Hood of the Pecos
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/01/1941
  • Character: Soldier (uncredited)
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.

Southward Ho

Southward Ho
6.2/10
A singing cowboy (Roy Rogers) and his sidekick (George "Gabby" Hayes) fight post-Civil War plunder in Texas.

The Border Legion

The Border Legion
6.1/10
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.

Dawn on the Great Divide

Dawn on the Great Divide
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1942
  • Character: Fiddler
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.

South of Santa Fe

South of Santa Fe
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/02/1942
  • Character: Jim Clancy
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.

Romance on the Range

Romance on the Range
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/05/1942
  • Character: Townsman
Romance on the Range is a 1942 American film. Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.

Man from Cheyenne

Man from Cheyenne
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/01/1942
  • Character: Cowhand
Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.

The Ranger and the Lady

The Ranger and the Lady
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 30/07/1940
  • Character: Bent's Banjoist
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.

Heart of the Golden West

Heart of the Golden West
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/11/1942
  • Character: Rustler
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.

Sheriff of Tombstone

Sheriff of Tombstone
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 07/05/1941
  • Character: Fiddle Player
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.

The Arizona Kid

The Arizona Kid
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/09/1939
  • Character: Union Soldier
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.

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