Odd Westerns
Films set in the old west , but not the usual gunslinging , cowboys and indians , plus films set in the wild east / north / south / and other places . Mostly from the classic era , forties to sixties .
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- DirectorEdward DeinStarsEric FlemingMichael PateKathleen CrowleyWhile a malady is claiming the lives of young women in a Western town, a sinister gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.Horror western
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsSterling HaydenAnita EkbergAnthony SteelAfter the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.Psychological drama , often listed as Film Noir
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsYvonne De CarloRod CameronDavid BruceA famous Viennese ballerina flees Europe during the Austro-Prussian War and falls in love with an American bandit who looks like her deceased royal lover.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsMiriam HopkinsEdward G. RobinsonJoel McCreaMary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.San Francisco in the Gold Rush
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMark StevensAngela LansburyPatric KnowlesDuring the War of 1812, the U.S. tasks Captain James Marshall to sail through the British blockade and bring back a French loan in gold but the secret leaks out and many greedy hands, including the mutinous crew's, are after the gold.Pirates in early 19thc America
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsMaureen O'HaraPeter LawfordFinlay CurrieIn turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.Australian near western
- DirectorBurt BalabanStarsJohn DerekElaine StewartPatrick AllenA greedy miner's determination to continue winter blasting in the Canadian Rockies threatens to bring avalanches down on a small village.Noirish melodrama set in Alaska
- DirectorKing VidorOtto BrowerWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenGregory PeckBeautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.Camp classic , supposed to be a western but so much more
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette GoddardIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.Canadian
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsRobert RyanJohn DehnerTorin ThatcherWhen 6000 Sioux flee to Canada, they are permitted to stay. But a Montana rancher and his cowboys, in search of stolen horses, kill all inhabitants of a Sioux village and claim they only wanted to free a white squaw who had been kidnapped.Canadian
- DirectorSam NewfieldRon OrmondStarsMarie WindsorRichard RoberCarla BalendaThis rather unusual 50s western is set in a town where men may not enter. The town is controlled by a woman gambler who eventually succumbs to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.Western town run by women
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsMaria MontezRod CameronMikhail RasumnyA woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.Mexican
- DirectorClaude FournierStarsDonald SutherlandGordon TootoosisChief Dan GeorgeBased on an actual event, this is the tragic story of Saskatchewan fugitive Almighty Voice, a Cree Indian who is arrested for stealing government livestock out of desperate hunger.Canadian
- DirectorR. John HughStarsLin McCarthyStephen CourtleighBerry Kroeger5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.Southern , set in Florida everglades
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsGlenn FordFrank LovejoyCesar RomeroAn American working on a ranch in the Amazon comes up against a gang of Brazilian bandits.Brazilian
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsVincent PriceEllen DrewVladimir SokoloffMaster swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBilly CurtisYvonne Moray'Little Billy' RhodesAn evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.Musical western with dwarves .
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsSterling HaydenSebastian CabotCarol KellyA Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.Western , but the final showdown has a slight difference ...
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsArthur KennedyBetta St. JohnEugene IglesiasIn Mexico, at the dawn of the automobile, modern bandit Santiago burglarizes train freight cars and falls in love with a poor farmer's wife.Mexican
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsLew AyresTeresa WrightVictor JoryA badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.Modern , often listed as Film Noir
- DirectorMarlon BrandoStanley KubrickStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenPina PellicerAfter robbing a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner Rio to be captured by the Rurales. Rio escapes prison but struggles with his conflicting desires to love Dad's stepdaughter Louise and to get revenge.One of the few westerns with the sea in .
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsVan HeflinAnne BancroftRichard BooneA group of Confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans, Vermont. To get the lay of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life--especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.Eastern , confederates raid a Northern town .
- DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsRory CalhounYvonne De CarloMara CordayIn 1842 in lawless Oregon, a gunfighter seeks vengeance after his innocent brother is lynched and his beautiful Indian wife is claimed by the local tyrant.Oregon in 1842 has an unusual way of men getting women...
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsGary CooperRita HayworthVan HeflinAn army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.Mexican , early 20th century , one of those films about something more than the specifics .