The best Victor Potel’s western movies

Victor Potel

Victor Potel

12/10/1889- 08/03/1947
Today we present the best Victor Potel’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 Victor Potel’s movies.
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Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers
7.3/10
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2/10
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

The Cowboy and the Bandit

The Cowboy and the Bandit
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/04/1935
  • Character: Lanky
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight against gang leader Larkin. Finding a wounded Scarface he helps him recover. Arrested by Larkin's stooge Sheriff, and with another lynch mob after him, he once again needs Scarface's help.

The Girl of the Golden West

The Girl of the Golden West
6.3/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 18/03/1938
  • Character: Lem - Stagecoach Driver
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?

His Regeneration

His Regeneration
4.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/05/1915
  • Character: Pawn Shop Clerk
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.

Stand Up and Fight

Stand Up and Fight
6.4/10
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Two Gun Law

Two Gun Law
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/04/1937
  • Character: Cassius
Two Gun Law perpetuated the cinematic winning streak established early in 1937 by western star Charles Starrett and director Leon Barsha. The action never lets up as hero Bob Larson (Charles Starrett) takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains (Charles Middleton, Alan Bridge and Dick Curtis).

Yellow Dust

Yellow Dust
5.6/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 12/03/1936
  • Character: Jugger - the Bartender
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

The Virginian

The Virginian
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/11/1929
  • Character: Nebrasky
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Wagon Wheels West

Wagon Wheels West
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/10/1943
  • Character: Posse Rider (uncredited)
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.

Chip of the Flying U

Chip of the Flying U
5.6/10
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.

Moonlight on the Prairie

Moonlight on the Prairie
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/11/1935
  • Character: Tall Saloon Cowboy
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

Rovin' Tumbleweeds
6.6/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 16/11/1939
  • Character: Man in Store
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.

Ride on Vaquero

Ride on Vaquero
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1941
  • Character: Ole
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.

Trail of the Vigilantes

Trail of the Vigilantes
6.4/10
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

The Lady from Cheyenne

The Lady from Cheyenne
6.1/10
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!

Partners

Partners
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/01/1932
  • Character: Deputy Lem
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.

Frontier Days

Frontier Days
4.5/10
Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note. The Pinto Kid, investigating cattle rustlers, accidentally drops his glove at the murder scene and now has a price on his head. He has Beth Wilson turn him and use the reward money to reclaim the note. Now he has to escape jail and find the real killers.

Whispering Smith Speaks

Whispering Smith Speaks
7.5/10
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains

On the Great White Trail

On the Great White Trail
5.4/10
Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.

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