The best Wallace Beery’s western movies

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

01/04/1885- 15/04/1949
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Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/04/1934
  • Character: Pancho Villa
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

Stand Up and Fight

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

Barbary Coast Gent

Barbary Coast Gent
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 01/09/1944
  • Character: Honest Plush Brannon
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

Big Jack

Big Jack
6.1/10
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

20 Mule Team

20 Mule Team
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/05/1940
  • Character: Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.

Wyoming

Wyoming
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/09/1940
  • Character: 'Reb' Harkness
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: Pat Garrett
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.

The Bad Man

The Bad Man
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 28/03/1941
  • Character: Pancho Lopez
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail
6.1/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 01/07/1942
  • Character: Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

The Man from Hell's River

The Man from Hell's River
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1922
  • Character: Gaspard, The Wolf
Adventure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Bad Man of Brimstone

The Bad Man of Brimstone
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/12/1937
  • Character: 'Trigger' Bill
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Stairs of Sand

Stairs of Sand
6.6/10
Stairs of Sand (1929)

The Eternal Struggle

The Eternal Struggle
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.

The Man from Dakota

The Man from Dakota
5.6/10
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

The Great Divide

The Great Divide
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/02/1925
  • Character: Dutch
The Great Divide (1925)

The Pony Express

The Pony Express
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/09/1925
  • Character: Rhode Island Red
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

The Northern Trail

The Northern Trail
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/07/1921
  • Character: Otto Franke
Short starring Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery.

The Last Trail

The Last Trail
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1921
  • Character: William Kirk
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse, suspicions are aroused and he is mistaken for the criminal.

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