The best William Boyd’s western movies

William Boyd

William Boyd

05/06/1895- 12/09/1972
Today we present the best William Boyd’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 William Boyd’s movies.
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Range War

Range War
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/09/1939
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. Till now they have been able to charge tolls on herds passing through. Hoppy goes undercover to expose them.

The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/03/1931
  • Character: Bill Holbrook
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

The Frontiersmen

The Frontiersmen
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/12/1938
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.

Silent Conflict

Silent Conflict
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/03/1948
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.

Trail Dust

Trail Dust
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/12/1936
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.

Leather Burners

Leather Burners
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/05/1943
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.

Doomed Caravan

Doomed Caravan
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.

Colt Comrades

Colt Comrades
6.4/10
While oil drilling, Hoppy and California discover an underground well - a potential threat to Jebb Hardin's monopoly on water in the region.

Border Patrol

Border Patrol
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/04/1943
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.

Bar 20

Bar 20
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1943
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.

False Paradise

False Paradise
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/09/1948
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.

Renegade Trail

Renegade Trail
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/07/1939
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."

False Colors

False Colors
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/11/1943
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.

Borderland

Borderland
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/02/1937
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.

Hidden Gold

Hidden Gold
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/06/1940
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.

Undercover Man

Undercover Man
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/10/1942
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.

Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/06/1944
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!

In Old Colorado

In Old Colorado
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.

The Showdown

The Showdown
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/03/1940
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.

Pirates on Horseback

Pirates on Horseback
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/05/1941
  • Character: Hopalong Cassidy
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.

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