Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then con...
A rancher comes home and finds that his son has been murdered and his daughter kidnapped by a bandit...
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Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the...
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An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Ma...
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent...
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Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their jo...
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with s...
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend i...
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Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Sal...
Johnny Mack Brown follows his tried-and-true western formula in Law of the Panhandle. This time, U.S...
Cattle king wants Reagan's small ranch, and Latina beauty Lola McLaughlin. His men kill Reagan's pre...