Movies from the Past
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area’s ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions. IMDB
In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and the cattlemen have come to a very uneasy truce. The delicate peace is inadvertantly shattered when a group of new homesteaders lay down their stakes on the cattlemen’s side of town, upsetting the delicate balance that had existed thus far and sparking an all-out war between the farmers, who want the land tamed and property lines drawn, and the cowboys, who want the prairies to be open for their cattle to roam. IMDB
Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette’s brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance’s good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude – once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober – and a young hand, Colorado, who used to work for Wheeler. Nathan Burdette meanwhile has a couple of dozen men at his disposal. Chance does his best to prepare all the while romancing a pretty gambler who goes by the name of Feathers. IMDB
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip’s father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred. IMDB
After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by “Red Jack” Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind. IMDB
The Tracker, also known as Dead or Alive in some countries, is a 1988 made-for-television Western film directed by John Guillermin, written by Kevin Jarre, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Scott Wilson, Mark Moses, David Huddleston, John Quade and Don Swayze. It premiered on HBO on March 26, 1988.
Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald. IMDB
Lured to a remote cabin, Dr. Baxter discovers the men he’s treating for bullet wounds are members of Butch Cassidy’s “Hole in the Wall Gang”. IMDB
Dr Baxter, returning from a trip to visit a friend, encounters a man who dies of Cholera. In tracing it to it’s origin, Dr Baxter investigates and finds the source of the Cholera and discovers something more insidious. IMDB
A young ranch hand tries to protect his girlfriend and her family of immigrant homesteaders from the attacks of his cowboy friends who want to keep the range open to run their cattle. IMDB
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 command of his henchman and rustles horses badly need as U.S. Cavalry remounts. Dr. Baxter, who treated the outlaw in prison, devises a plan to recapture the double-crossing criminal. IMDB