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1. The Missouri Breaks (1976)

PG | 126 min | Drama, Western

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd

Votes: 12,297 | Gross: $14.00M

2. Westbound (1958)

Passed | 72 min | Western

In 1864 Capt. John Hayes goes to Colorado to take over the stagecoach line and keep the flow of Western gold flowing and help the North win the Civil War.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante

Votes: 1,521

3. Bite the Bullet (1975)

PG | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson

Votes: 5,894

4. The Burning Hills (1956)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz

Votes: 922

5. Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Western

With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas

Votes: 1,726

6. Springfield Rifle (1952)

Approved | 93 min | Thriller, War, Western

Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly

Votes: 2,291

7. Wooly Boys (2001)

PG | 99 min | Comedy

A sheep rancher's visit to the big city triggers a mischevious adventure with his teenage computer-whiz grandson.

Director: Leszek Burzynski | Stars: Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Joseph Mazzello, Keith Carradine

Votes: 738 | Gross: $0.34M

8. The Canadians (1961)

TV-PG | 85 min | Western

When 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.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe

Votes: 297

9. Silver Canyon (1951)

Approved | 70 min | Drama, Music, Western

During the Civil War, McQuarrie leads guerrilla raiders, Gene and Cougar serve as Union scouts stationed in Utah.

Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Jim Davis

Votes: 104

10. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)

86 min | Comedy, Western

The "Rattler" is secretly the head of an outlaw band have been terrorizing the residents of Peaceful Valley with a crime wave of rustling, killing and robbing. The Federal Government has ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Patterson | Stars: Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Blake

Votes: 43

11. Forlorn River (1937)

Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western

"Nevada" (Buster Crabbe) and "Weary" Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner (Lew... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Harvey Stephens, John Patterson

Votes: 73

12. Wild Horse Mesa (1947)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Western

Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstead buys them from Melburn and then kills... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Grissell | Stars: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Tom Keene

Votes: 119

13. The Outlaw Stallion (1954)

Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Hagan is rustling horses lead by a white stallion from a Government restricted area. Young Danny Saunders captures the horse who then kills Hagen's mare. Hagen needs the white stallion and ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Dorothy Patrick, Billy Gray, Roy Roberts

Votes: 81

14. Wild Horse Mesa (1925)

Passed | 95 min | Western

Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 94

15. Wild Beauty (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Drama, Western

A pretty school teacher (Lois Collier)---make that a very pretty school teacher---, a doctor (Don Porter) who disapproves of the white man's attitude toward Indians, and a young Indian boy ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Don Porter, Lois Collier, Jacqueline deWit, Robert Wilcox

Votes: 8

16. Forbidden Valley (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A young man who was raised by his father, who was falsely accused of murder, saves the life of a beautiful rich girl, and things start changing.

Director: Wyndham Gittens | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Frances Robinson, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler

Votes: 25

17. The Riding Tornado (1932)

Passed | 64 min | Western

Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Montagu Love, Wheeler Oakman

Votes: 20

18. Come on, Tarzan (1932)

Passed | 61 min | Western

Frazier and his gang are rustling horses. When the wild horse Tarzan frees Frazier's horses. Frazier gets the Sheriff to declare Tarzan an outlaw and have him shot. But Tarzan is Ken's favorite and he now tries to protect him.

Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Merna Kennedy, Niles Welch

Votes: 87

19. Ma bei shang de fa ting (2006)

101 min | Drama

The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages.

Director: Jie Liu | Stars: Baotian Li, Yaning Yang, Yulai Lü, Tingliang Li

Votes: 251

20. King of the Stallions (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Drama, Western

Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

Director: Edward Finney | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Chief Thundercloud, Sally Cairns, Rick Vallin

Votes: 42

21. Ready to Ride (1950)

Approved | 30 min | Short, Action, Drama

In this 30-minute remake of Universal's 1938 "Outlaw Express" and filled from front to back with footage edited from that film, Tex Williams (Tex Williams) is a United States Army officer ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Donna Martell

22. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958)
Episode: The Rock Springs Rustlers (1951)

30 min | Family, Western

The local townsfolk are furious when Wild Bill Hickok, who is serving as the U.S. Marshal based in a small Nebraska town, refuses to organize a posse to chase the remnants of the Quantrill ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Robert Winans, Sharyn Payne

Votes: 14

23. Frontier Doctor (1956– )
Episode: Gringo Pete (1959)

27 min | Western

An outlaw leader suffering from a fatal heart disease convinces the territorial governor that he will cooperate with the law to round up his former outlaw gang. Once paroled, he resumes ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Ted de Corsia, Lisa Montell, Don Oreck

Votes: 11

24. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Drago (1971)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

An aging mountain man reluctantly agrees to join the posse pursuing a murderous outlaw gang, but his real intent is to exact murderous vengeance on the men that murdered his female benefactor.

Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis

Votes: 189

25. Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994–1996)
Episode: The Long Arm of the Law (1995)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Western

Edward Dengate is the new constable in Paterson's Ridge, which he hates because he would rather be a farmer. Matt convinces Edward's father that he cannot choose his son's life for him, and Edward leaves to fulfill his dream.

Director: Peter Fisk | Stars: Andrew Clarke, Wendy Hughes, Brett Climo, Guy Pearce

Votes: 10

26. Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–1959)
Episode: Prairie Raiders (1955)

30 min | Family, Western

Steve Bradford leases 60,000 acres of government land so he can capture wild horses, break them and supply the animals to the U.S. Cavalry for remounts. Using a forged document as authority... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Willard Parker, Harry Lauter, Rand Brooks, Sandy Descher

27. Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–1959)
Episode: Texas Flyer (1958)

30 min | Family, Western

In the 1880s, Rangers Pearson and Morgan are order to find a herd of horses stolen from the U.S. Cavalry at Fort Davis which have apparently disappeared into thin air. They encounter a man ... See full summary »

Director: George Blair | Stars: Willard Parker, Harry Lauter, Leslie Bradley, Denver Pyle

28. The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode: Larceny and Young Ladies (1960)

30 min | Western

Sheriff Garrett has his hands full when a gang of horse thieves starts operating in Lincoln County. He learns to his chagrin that the crooks are a pair of pretty, but devious, blondes, but ... See full summary »

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Cynthia Chenault, Judy Nugent

Votes: 14