The best Steve Darrell’s western 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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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Roll on Texas Moon

Roll on Texas Moon
5.9/10
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.

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.

Prairie Pirates

Prairie Pirates
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/05/1949
  • Character: Banker Winter
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.

Carson City Raiders

Carson City Raiders
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 13/05/1948
  • Character: Tom Drew aka Fargo Jack
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his freight line. Meanwhile, Dave Starky (Harold Goodwin) is impersonating the outlaw Fargo Jack (Steve Darrell). But why? There's a lot of confusion in Carson City in this Western about hidden identities. Who is truly behind the gang of stagecoach robbers?

Frontier Outpost

Frontier Outpost
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1950
  • Character: Forsythe
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.

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.

Treasure Of Ruby Hills

Treasure Of Ruby Hills
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/01/1955
  • Character: Tom Hull
Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.

Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
7.1/10
Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who killed her father are trying to drive her out of the mine so they can take it over.

Gentlemen With Guns

Gentlemen With Guns
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/03/1946
  • Character: Jim McCallister
While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then advises Matilda to marry Fuzzy so she will get the money when he is hung. But Billy breaks up the wedding and goes after the real killer.

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/10/1961
  • Character: The Sheriff
Feature-length Western based on the hit TV show 'Tales of Wells Fargo,' about a Wells Fargo Company troubleshooter who becomes the target of an outlaw he helped send to prison.

Son of God’s Country

Son of God’s Country
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1948
  • Character: Henchman Bigelow
Son of God's Country stars singing cowboy Monte Hale in his traditional screen role of do-gooder and last-minute problem-solver. This time, it's the old "evil land baron" plot again, with the villains eager to grab up all available ranch property, then sell it back to the incoming railroad.

Trailing Danger

Trailing Danger
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/05/1947
  • Character: George Bannister
Convicted killer Jim Holden is rescued from the sheriff by his gang, led by Mason and Riley. He is out to get the Hathaway Stage superintendent George Bannister, who was responsible for his conviction and learns the Bannister, his niece (Kay) and Hal Hathaway, son of the stage line owner, are on a cross-country stage. Johnny, a rancher, and Waco, local stage representative head for the stage to warn the passengers, including entertainer Paradise Flo and coffin salesman Pennypacker. Hal takes the stage into Holdin. Johnny and Waco rescue Hal and Bannister before the gang succeeds in hanging the pair.

On the Old Spanish Trail

On the Old Spanish Trail
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 15/10/1947
  • Character: Henchman Al
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.

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