Top Ten Westerns - with Red in Title
I was a lot of westerns and one of my top 10 is Red River. This got me thinking about other westerns with the color Red in its title. Here are my top 10 in order of IMDB ratings.
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- DirectorsHoward HawksArthur RossonStarsJohn WayneMontgomery CliftJoanne DruDunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsRex AllenKokoSlim PickensWhen an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings. Rex discovers that rancher Frank Barlowe is behind the bogus oil venture which is fleecing the local ranchers. Marlowe is killed in the hectic proceedings and his son, Ned Marlowe, unwittingly carries on the oil deal. Marlowe's secret partner in the hoax, Case Lockwood, convinces Ned that Rex killed his father. Oil is actually discovered on the property and Lockwood, with his attempted land-grab scheme, is tripped up by Rex.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsBuck JonesGrant WithersMarion ShillingRed Davison, the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of Scotty McKee.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsRex AllenJeff DonnellCarl 'Alfalfa' SwitzerArthur Cameron has spent many years establishing the mountain forest community of New Horizon for underprivileged boys. His chief assistant is Hattie Hickory who cooks and acts as a foster mother for the boy. The property is in danger of reverting to Julie Westcott, whose father Sam Westcott has recently being killed by riding his horse into a rope stretched across the trail, and she believes the New Horizon boys to be responsible. She is determined to end the Cameron project and to sell the property to lumber king Bart Bryant. Actually behind the trouble is her attorney, Craig Danvers, who is in debt to Bryant, who has agreed to take the New Horizon property in payment of the debt. Danvers, with the help of his henchmen Curley and Lush Mason, pulled off the killing through one of the New Horizon boys, Two-Bits, who just thought he was playing a trick on Westcott. Into this situation rides Rex Allen, a young official of the American Forestry League, and his sidekick "Alfalfa" Donahue.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsGlenn FordEdmond O'BrienRhonda FlemingFramed for murder during the Civil War, Gil Kyle's only alibi is Confederate agent Candace Bronson who he must track down in dangerous territory filled with foes.
- DirectorsWilliam DieterleJohn FarrowStarsAlan LaddLizabeth ScottArthur KennedyIn 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersGeorge 'Gabby' HayesSally PayneRanchers, with the help of Roy, raise money to build a reservoir but lose it to a gambler through a crooked stock deal.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteFrances GrantGene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRory CalhounMartha HyerDean JaggerA gunfighter takes a deputy sheriff job in a town caught in a feud between a powerful rancher and small farmers.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsAnn BlythHoward DuffGeorge BrentA young girl sets out to tame a wild horse so she can enter him in a race.