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1. Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 6,826 | Gross: $4.38M

2. Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Western

Agent Jim Hardie splits his life between being an agent helping Wells Fargo cope with bad guys, and owning a ranch near San Francisco, California.

Stars: Dale Robertson, Art Felix, Kit Carson, William Demarest

Votes: 1,236

3. Australia (2008)

PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.

Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo

Votes: 129,821 | Gross: $49.55M

4. Chisum (1970)

G | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Western

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson

Votes: 10,930 | Gross: $13.08M

5. The Hunting Party (1971)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western

A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland

Votes: 3,424

6. The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen

Votes: 6,852 | Gross: $13.83M

7. Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Passed | 95 min | Western

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman

Votes: 8,815 | Gross: $2.50M

8. The Rare Breed (1966)

Approved | 97 min | Western

An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy hornless bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas, but have to overcome greedy criminals and the natural elements.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills

Votes: 3,972

9. Lone Star (1952)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western

Ex-President Andrew Jackson sends Texan Devereaux Burke back home on a mission to facilitate Sam Houston's drive for U.S. statehood.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 1,232

10. Cowboy (1958)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western

An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 3,478

11. The Furies (1950)

Passed | 109 min | Western

A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson

Votes: 3,908

12. Gun Glory (1957)

Approved | 89 min | Western

A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland

Votes: 901

13. Stranger on Horseback (1955)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Western

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire

Votes: 819

14. Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

In 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer

Votes: 208

15. The Outcasts (1968–1969)

60 min | Western

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.

Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano

Votes: 182

16. Man in the Shadow (I) (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Virgil Renchler owns most of the town, providing a thriving economy. When his men go too far and kill one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him, even if it means his job and everyone else's.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander

Votes: 1,228

17. Billy the Kid (1941)

Passed | 94 min | Western

In 1880 New Mexico, during a feud between cattle growers, former childhood friends Billy the Kid and Jim Sherwood end-up working for opposite sides.

Directors: David Miller, Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard

Votes: 1,070

18. Trail Street (1947)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 831

19. The Halliday Brand (1957)

Approved | 79 min | Western

Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond

Votes: 516

20. Untamed Frontier (1952)

Approved | 78 min | Western

Squeezed between Mexico and the Denbow family lands lies the U.S. government free grazing land but the incoming settlers cannot reach it without trespassing on the Denbow property which is defended by an army of Denbow cowhands.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball

Votes: 428

21. Homesteader Droopy (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Homesteaders are not popular in cattle country, so when the cows complain to Dishonest Dan, The Cattle Man, he makes it tough on the Droopy family.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Colleen Collins, Paul Frees

Votes: 578

22. Texas Lady (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Western

A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, James Bell

Votes: 334

23. American Empire (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford

Votes: 315

24. The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957)

Approved | 76 min | Romance, Western

A pseudo-marshal, a local doctor and the town sheriff must join forces to battle a greedy cattle-baron whose herd, locally sold, is contaminated with a contagious disease.

Director: Albert C. Gannaway | Stars: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Carl Smith, Harry Lauter

Votes: 178

25. A Texas Steer (1915)

Passed | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick Brander, finds himself in Washington D. C. as an elected congressman. However, when the ... See full summary »

Director: Giles Warren | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Grace Darmond, Frances Bayless, John Charles

Votes: 35

26. Little Beaux Pink (1968)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Pink Panther had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow, and wherever the lamb went to graze, the panther had to go. The panther and his lamb cross a boundary into Cattle Country... See full summary »

Director: Hawley Pratt

Votes: 179

27. Code of the Cow Country (1927)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, Western

Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Buddy Roosevelt, Hank Bell, Elsa Benham, Melbourne MacDowell

28. The Judgement Book (1935)

Approved | 63 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A newspaper publisher is murdered. His nephew takes over the paper and sets out to track down the killers.

Director: Charles Hutchison | Stars: Conway Tearle, Bernadene Hayes, Howard Lang, Richard Cramer

Votes: 13

29. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: We Hang Our Own (1974)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A powerful cattle Baron has taken the law into his own hands when his son is killed outside a bar.

Director: Douglas Green | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Al Harrington, Kam Fong

Votes: 138

30. The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode: Shadows on the Land (1967)

PG | 60 min | Western

John needs cattle. He offers to buy cattle from area ranchers but learns they are being force to sell to Dolph Tanner at a lower price. The Cannons are forced to fight Tanner as John accepts Victoria and Blue in their proper roles.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow

Votes: 79

31. The Magnificent Seven (1998–2000)
Episode: One Day Out West (1998)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Western

When a rancher's nephew kills a man, a law-and-order circuit judge needs the Seven to bring the killer to trial.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Michael Biehn, Eric Close, Andrew Kavovit, Dale Midkiff

Votes: 92

32. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
Episode: Act of Faith (1969)

60 min | Western

Earl and Jemal capture a black man wanted for murder. The man says he'll never get a fair trial because he's black. A wealthy rancher holds great influence over townspeople. It was his ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Brock Peters, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 13

33. The Quest (1976)
Episode: Day of Outrage (1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Western

To escape the vicious windstorm outside, Quentin and Morgan enter another kind of storm when they seek shelter in a bawdy ranch house owned by an aggressive woman.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Amanda Blake, George Gaynes

Votes: 22

34. Saving Grace (2007–2010)
Episode: Would You Want Me to Tell You? (2007)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Grace's Aunt Cathy comes to town toting baggage of a different kind, and Grace sets out to prevent her ruining a weekend dedicated to the memory of her father. At work, the team investigates the disappearance of a bronze bull.

Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Bailey Chase

Votes: 166

35. Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959)
Episode: The Poisoners (1959)

30 min | Western

When a rancher imports a herd of short-horn cattle onto the Texas range near Fort Clark, his neighbor, a cattle baron who runs only longhorns tries to drive him out - first by persuasion, ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Richard Carlson, William Tannen, Jack Buetel, Forrest Lewis

Votes: 9