The best William Bailey’s western movies

William Bailey

William Bailey

25/09/1886- 08/11/1962
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Bailey’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about William Bailey.

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1952
  • Character: Jim (uncredited)
A group of Texas Rangers chasing the Butch Cavendish gang is massacred in an ambush. One of the Rangers survives and becomes a vigilante, a masked Lone Ranger who, aided by his native friend Tonto, promises to bring all outlaws to justice.

Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/09/1935
  • Character: Cliff Borden
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.

The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
6.3/10
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.

Robin Hood Of Texas

Robin Hood Of Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/07/1947
  • Character: Chase Car Owner
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.

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.

Trails End

Trails End
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/04/1949
  • Character: Sheriff
Cowhand Drake discovers gold on the ranch of his boss, Joe Stuart and makes a deal with crooked lawyer Mel Porter to induce Stuart to sell. The latter refuses, and also orders Bill Cameron not to see his daughter Laurie again. Foreman Johnny Mack, after intervening, quits after he sees Stuart hit Laurie while quarreling over her proposed marriage to Cameron. Peddler Alibi Terhune witnesses the killing of Stuart by Clem Kettering, hired by Porter, and is taken prisoner. Cameron is blamed for Stuart's killing, escapes jail, but is persuaded by Johnny to go back and stand trial. Johnny rescues Alibi and the two work together on clearing Cameron's name, and bringing the real culprits to justice.

The Gallant Legion

The Gallant Legion
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/05/1948
  • Character: Barfly
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.

Cattle Queen

Cattle Queen
4.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/11/1951
  • Character: Warden
After conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be empire builder Duke Drake is confronted by the girl's new tough foreman Bill Foster. In retaliation, Drake frames Bill for a stage robbery committed by his own henchmen and arranges a phony trial presided over by the saloon's bartender Judge Whipple. Queenie interrupts the "trial" with the news that the townswomen have all elected Jim Marshal. To uphold the decision, Bill has secured the release of three convicted outlaws: Blackie Malone, Bad Bill Smith, and Shotgun Thompson, two of whom join in the fight against Drake and his gang.

Code of the Saddle

Code of the Saddle
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/06/1947
  • Character: Sheriff Wallace
Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western.

The Lone Avenger

The Lone Avenger
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/05/1933
  • Character: Henchman Landers
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.

Wild Beauty

Wild Beauty
5.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/11/1927
  • Character: Jim Kennedy
A soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.

Lightning Guns

Lightning Guns
6.3/10
The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by Charles Starrett, who this time around is on the trail of a gang of cold-blooded killers. Rancher Dan Saunders (Edgar Dearing) is held responsible for the killings because of his opposition to a politically expedient dam project. Durango believes that Saunders is innocent, and he intends to prove it.

Against All Odds

Against All Odds
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 27/07/1924
  • Character: Tom Curtis (as William N. Baily)
Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.

Ranson's Folly

Ranson's Folly
5/10
U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a stagecoach with a pair of scissors. And rides out and does so. But the next day, the postmaster, returning from a neighboring town, is also held up and his bodyguard is killed. Ranson is arrested on suspicion and placed on trial. But at the trial suspicion point to Cahill, post trader, and father of Ranson's sweetheart, Mary. In order to save him, Ranson pleads guilty but, in return and knowing that his daughter loves Ranson, Cahill admits he is "The Red Rider." Meanwhile, the real "Red Rider" is still at large.

Man in the Rough

Man in the Rough
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/05/1928
  • Character: Jim Kane (as William Norton Bailey)
Attempting to warn an old prospector and his daughter of impending danger from a notorious outlaw, diminutive but tough Bruce Sherwood is himself mistaken for a bandit.

The Desert Hawk

The Desert Hawk
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/10/1924
  • Character: Tex Trapp
A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.

The Fighting Three

The Fighting Three
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/07/1927
  • Character: Steve Clayton
The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy. While she is performing at the town opera house, D'Arcy is found murdered and young Jack is accused of the heinous deed.

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