Don’t know if you’ve been naughty or nice, but one thing is certain: you people sure know your cowboy movies. Going through your responses for this year’s Want List, I was reminded of several films I’d forgotten. Thanks to everyone who played along.
The titles have been grouped by studio, according to their original release — independent productions such as The Hired Gun (1957) are with their distributor (MGM in this case). I’ve indicated the widescreen films (off the top of my head, not researched — sorry, it was really late).
20th Century-Fox
Canadian Pacific (1949)
Caribou Trail (1950)
The Gambler From Natchez (1954)
Pony Soldier (1952)
Sierra Baron (1958, Scope)
The Silver Whip (1953)
Allied Artists/Monogram
Arrow In The Dust (1954)
At Gunpoint (1955, Scope)
Bitter Creek (1954)
Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957, Scope)
Fargo (1952)
Jack Slade (1953)
Kansas Territory (1952)
Oregon Passage (1957, Scope)
The Rawhide Trail (1958)
The Tall Stranger (1957, Scope)
Wild Stallion (1952)
American International
Gunslinger (1956)
Columbia
Ambush At Tomahawk Gap (1953)
Cripple Creek (1952)
Domino Kid (1957)
The Doolins Of Oklahoma (1949)
Face Of A Fugitive (1959)
Fury At Gunsight Pass (1956)
The Gunfighters (1947)
Gunman’s Walk (1958, Scope)
The Hard Man (1958)
Jack McCall, Desperado (1953)
Jesse James Vs. The Daltons (1954)
The Pathfinder (1953)
Reprisal! (1956)
Stage To Tucson (1950)
The Texas Rangers (1951)
The Walking Hills (1949)
MGM
Heaven With A Gun (1969)
The Hired Gun (1957, Scope)
Paramount
The Eagle And The Hawk (1950)
Flaming Feather (1952)
Red Mountain (1951)
Regal (all RegalScope)
Ambush At Cimarron Pass (1958)
Apache Warrior (1957)
Badlands Of Montana (1957)
Copper Sky (1957)
Frontier Gun (1958)
The Quiet Gun (1956)
Ride A Violent Mile (1957)
Showdown At Boot Hill (1958)
Republic
Brimstone (1949)
California Passage (1950)
Dakota Incident (1956)
Hellfire (1949)
Last Stagecoach West (1957, Naturama)
A Man Alone (1955)
Man Or Gun (1958, Naturama)
Ride The Man Down (1953)
The Road To Denver (1955)
Rock Island Trail (1950)
The Savage Horde (1950)
The Showdown (1950)
Stranger At My Door (1956)
Timberjack (1955)
Trail Of Robin Hood (uncut, 1950)
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
RKO
The Big Sky (1952)
Blood On The Moon (1948)
Great Day In The Morning (1956, SuperScope)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Run Of The Arrow (1957)
Treasure Of Poncho Villa (1955, SuperScope)
United Artists
Abilene Town (1946)
Beast Of Hollow Mountain (1956, Scope)
Gun Belt (1953)
Ride Out For Revenge (1957)
Universal (-International)
Apache Drums (1951)
Black Horse Canyon (1954)
Bronco Buster (1952)
A Day Of Fury (1956)
Day Of The Bad Man (1958, Scope)
Destry (1954)
Four Guns To The Border (1954)
Incident At Phantom Hill (1966, Scope)
Last Of The Fast Guns (1958, Scope)
The Lone Hand (1953)
The Man From Bitter Ridge (1955)
Man Without A Star (1955)
Money, Women And Guns (1958, Scope)
Rails Into Laramie (1954)
Raw Edge (1956)
Saddle Tramp (1950)
The Saga Of Hemp Brown (1959, Scope)
Showdown At Abilene (1956)
Slim Carter (1957)
The Spoilers (1956)
Stagecoach To Dancer’s Rock (1962)
Star In The Dust (1956)
Walk The Proud Land (1956, Scope)
The Yellow Mountain (1954)
Warner Bros.
The Big Land (1957, Scope)
The Bounty Hunter (1954)
Charge At Feather River (1953)
Drum Beat (1954, Scope)
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend (1958)
South Of St. Louis (1949)
Sugarfoot (1951)
I suggested two Jock Mahoneys but they seem to be lost
Last of the Fast Guns
Money Women & Guns
Both Universal
Also Timberjack from Republic
Robert Reiner
PS happy 2013
Keep up the good work
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Those are good ones! Sorry I missed them — I’ll fix it.
Merry Christmas!
“Dragoon Wells Massacre” was definitely an Allied Artists Western, not Fox. Although I understand that Warners now hold the rights to it. I still await a widescreen DVD release of it.
I’ll fix that. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you, too, Toby. It’s 7:15 pm on Christmas night on this side of the pond, but, as you are about eight hours behind me, there’s still most of your Christmas Day left yet.
“Rawhide Trail” I had mentioned was a later 50′s movie with Rex Reason and Nancy Gates.
Oh, yeah, The Gunslinger. Actually I’d like to ask Santa for Blu-rays of EVERY movie in which Beverly Garland wears tight pants and kicks ass. Thanks!
The Quiet Gun no doubt. I’d add Rock Island Trail and California Passage (both 1950) to the Republic list.
Showdown at Boot Hill is one of the best Regals. Thought it had been mentioned on the wish list but maybe not. Something you’d want to add.
I am hoping for Incident at Phantom Hill myself–but partly because I haven’t seen it in ‘Scope, so you should note ‘Scope on that title. Also, it’s past the point where Universal-International became “Universal” again, though the only movie on that list that is so no second category seems indicated. Also, poetically, this and the other 1966 Earl Bellamy directed one–Gunpoint with Audie Murphy, the actor’s last for the studio–seem like the last U-I programmer Westerns of their type, no matter what logo they begin with.
Happy holidays to you, Toby, and every traveler who passes this way.
AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK GAP is showing at importcds.com as a Feb 19, 2013, release, from Sony/Columbia MOD.
It was also released in LP/VHS from Goodtimes along with THE HARD MAN, THE DOOLINS OF OKLAHOMA, and THE TEXAS RANGERS, in the ’80s.
These old VHS releases can usually be found at Amazon Marketplace. So a few more on VHS, from those titles Toby listed, for those who don’t want to wait for a DVD release, include HELLFIRE, SHOWDOWN, TRAIL OF ROBIN HOOD, and RIDE THE MAN DOWN from Republic Home Video/NTA. SOUTH OF ST LOUIS was also released on VHS by Republic.
Twilight Time will release Pony Soldier on Blu-ray on February 12. WAC has remastered Heaven with a Gun in 16×9 and it will be released sometime in 2013.
Ambush At Cimmaron Pass was another Regalscope title mentioned.
Clint Eastwood is third-billed in this.
Both this title and Showdown At Boot Hill are shown at imdb as being titles that Olive Films apparently has for release. Since Showdown… stars Charles Bronson, they probably went for the biggest star names in any of the Regal westerns.
However, maybe we could hope they would consider getting and doing yet others in due course….
Fantastic list, and so beautifully illustrated! Thanks to everyone who contributed and especially to our hardworking host who put the list together so carefully. It’s a great resource for “movies to see” as well as being a wish list for DVDs.
Here’s hoping those who work on future DVD releases will take a look and we’ll see some of these become available in 2013!
Best wishes,
Laura
So great to have all these most wanted films listed in one place.
Toby we are missing Paramount in the final cut.
I think I mentioned RED MOUNTAIN and FLAMING FEATHER
is also Paramount not Republic.There are several Republic regulars
in leading roles however.
THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK would also be welcome from Paramount
great photography from James Wong Howe and Rhonda Fleming
looking spellbinding.
Mr Bowie if you like Beverly Garland in tight strides you have to check
out the Regalscope picture BADLANDS OF MONTANA in that picture
they are VERY tight.
I originally had Paramount and Republic combined because of the Olive connection. When I separated them, I never set up a Paramount list.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll fix it.
I finished this list really late, while getting Christmas stuff ready — so I’m surprised there aren’t more mistakes.
Toby,
I am certain that Colin nominated GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING
(Superscope) from RKO.
I would like to second that title also.
Thank you.
Whoops,
GUNFIGHTERS (1947) is a Columbia picture,not Fox.
Toby I too am amazed that there are not more typos considering that
you were juggling Christmas lists with most wanted lists.
It will be fun this time next year to see how many of our wishes have
come true.
You’re right, it would be interesting to see how many showed up over the year.
Ambush At Tomahawk Gap is already on the way.
A few of the films on the list are from pretty far down in the barrel. Here are 17 more titles from the mid to late 1950s. All are black-and-white; several are widescreen. I’ve seen them all, but not since first release, when I was a lad going to Saturday matinees, so I can’t honestly say I’d pay much to own them.
RETURN OF JACK SLADE (1955) John Ericson, Neville Brand
BLACKJACK KETCHUM, DESPERADO (1956) Howard Duff, Victor Jory
DESPERADOS ARE IN TOWN (1956) Robert Arthur, Rhodes Reason
LAST OF THE DESPERADOS (1956) James Craig, Jim Davis
NAKED GUN (1956) Willard Parker, Barton MacLane
STAGECOACH TO FURY (1956) Forrest Tucker, Wallace Ford
THREE OUTLAWS (1956) Neville Brand, Bruce Bennett
WILD DAKOTAS (1956) Bill Williams, Jim Davis
YOUNG GUNS (1956) Russ Tamblyn, Perry Lopez
DUEL AT APACHE WELLS (1957) Ben Johnson, Jim Davis
GUNSIGHT RIDGE (1957) Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens
SIERRA STRANGER (1957) Howard Duff, Dick Foran
STORM RIDER (1957) Scott Brady, Bill Williams
UTAH BLAINE (1957) Rory Calhoun, Max Baer
BADMAN’S COUNTRY (1958) George Montgomery, Buster Crabbe
SEVEN GUNS TO MESA (1958) James Griffith, Charles Quinlaven
LONE TEXAN (1959) Willard Parker, Grant Williams
Another one which I missed when first release, Gun Brothers (1956). Best regards.
GUN BROTHERS is already out as an MGM MOD.
Mike,some really obscure titles in your list I would pay the going MOD
rate for some of them especially RETURN OF JACK SLADE,
STAGECOACH TO FURY,and STORM RIDER;the first in Superscope and
the other two in Regalscope.
I would also love to get Naturama versions of THE LAWLESS EIGHTIES
and HELLS CROSSROADS.
RETURN OF JACK SLADE has nothing to do with the Mark Stevens film
but its a fun movie;though nowhere near as good.I guess most of the films
on Mikes list are best left as distant memories.
I recall showing “The Storm Rider” in Regalscope as a Saturday matinee way back in July, 1969 and it was already twelve years old then. I’ve not seen it since, but two things have stayed in my memory concerning it. (1): The theme music was, of all things, ‘Greensleeves’ and a less appropriate theme for a Western you couldn’t imagine. The score was by Les Baxter and for this score, he obviously used library music. Maybe he was in a hurry. (2): Scott Brady looked massive alongside dainty Mala Powers and you felt he’d most likely crush her to death if he gave her a hug. She almost seemed like a liitle girl alongside him.