The best Steve Darrell’s movies

Steve Darrell

Steve Darrell

19/11/1904- 14/08/1970
Today we present the best Steve Darrell’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 Steve Darrell’s movies.
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They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On
7.2/10
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

The Tall Men

The Tall Men
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/09/1955
  • Character: Colonel Norris (as Stevan Darrell)
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Winchester '73

Winchester '73
7.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1950
  • Character: Bat Masterson (uncredited)
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/08/1952
  • Character: Sheriff Barton
A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from one raid, he meets femme fatale Opal Lacy, who may not be healthy for him to know. When Luke, now calling himself the Silver Kid, joins forces with Marshal Tyrone, the gang had better watch out ...unless something drives a wedge between the new allies.

Tarantula

Tarantula
6.4/10
A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones
6.9/10
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Backlash

Backlash
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1947
  • Character: Detective Sergeant Gorman
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.

Dixie Dugan

Dixie Dugan
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/03/1943
  • Character: First Worker (uncredited)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

The Gal Who Took the West

The Gal Who Took the West
6.2/10
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

Utah Blaine

Utah Blaine
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1957
  • Character: Lud Fuller
Western about Calhoun helping to overcome land-grabbing outlaws.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 23/05/1948
  • Character: District Attorney
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

Abandoned

Abandoned
6.7/10
Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.

Riders in the Sky

Riders in the Sky
6.5/10
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.

The Monolith Monsters

The Monolith Monsters
6.3/10
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission
5.7/10
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Tear Gas Squad

Tear Gas Squad
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1940
  • Character: Mitch
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Dangerous Years

Dangerous Years
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1947
  • Character: Detective (uncredited)
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.

Rock Island Trail

Rock Island Trail
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/05/1950
  • Character: Stagecoach Driver
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Women in the Wind

Women in the Wind
6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 15/04/1939
  • Character: Photographer (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

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