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1. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass

Votes: 15,616

2. Rio Lobo (1970)

G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam

Votes: 13,700 | Gross: $9.27M

3. The Wrecking Crew (1968)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Gold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan

Votes: 3,744

4. Red Sun (1971)

PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Western

In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress

Votes: 10,761 | Gross: $4.84M

5. The Lone Hand (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western

In 1870, widowed farmer Zachary Hallock secretly joins a group of outlaws as a solution to his money problems.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake

Votes: 567

6. Vera Cruz (1954)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero

Votes: 11,382

7. The War Wagon (1967)

Unrated | 101 min | Drama, Western

The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr.

Votes: 10,828

8. Ride the High Country (1962)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr

Votes: 14,873

9. Nevada Smith (1966)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Western

A half-American Indian and half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 9,122 | Gross: $14.17M

10. The Wicked Lady (1983)

R | 98 min | Adventure, Drama

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 1,451 | Gross: $0.72M

11. You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)

PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee

Votes: 1,670

12. For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012)

R | 145 min | Drama, History, War

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government.

Director: Dean Wright | Stars: Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Santiago Cabrera

Votes: 5,337 | Gross: $5.67M

13. The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

Approved | 83 min | War, Western

A former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that it's not for him and tries to change his life.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready

Votes: 1,442

14. The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Western

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $0.14M

15. The Wicked Lady (1945)

Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Drama

A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones

Votes: 1,643

16. Rawhide (1951)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger

Votes: 3,152

17. Advance to the Rear (1964)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, War, Western

When A Union Army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory, Southern spies try to figure out what they're doing there.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus

Votes: 912

18. Westbound (1958)

Passed | 72 min | Western

In 1864 Capt. John Hayes goes to Colorado to take over the stagecoach line and keep the flow of Western gold flowing and help the North win the Civil War.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante

Votes: 1,512

19. The Legend of Ben Hall (2017)

Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.

Director: Matthew Holmes | Stars: Jack Martin, Jamie Coffa, William Lee, Joanne Dobbin

Votes: 2,345

20. 7 uomini d'oro (1965)

G | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An international gang of thieves, led by Albert the Professor and his seductive assistant Giorgia, use meticulous planning to steal seven tons of gold from the Swiss National Bank in Geneva.

Director: Marco Vicario | Stars: Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Gabriele Tinti

Votes: 480

21. Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Western

Sartana contends with various parties - including a dapper rival gunfighter, an alluring saloon owner and a Mexican bandit - who are intent on acquiring a mining director's gold.

Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Erika Blanc, Piero Lulli

Votes: 1,070

22. The Last Outpost (1951)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western

Despite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams

Votes: 637

23. The Silver Whip (1953)

Passed | 73 min | Western

Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Crowley

Votes: 448

24. The Badlanders (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Western

Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly

Votes: 1,689

25. True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Western

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens

Votes: 215

26. Midas Run (1969)

M | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A veteran Secret Service Agent from Britain hijacks a government shipment of fifteen million dollars of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson

Votes: 184

27. Raiders of Ghost City (1944)

Passed | 225 min | Western

During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California... See full summary »

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Dennis Moore, Wanda McKay, Lionel Atwill, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 86

28. Black Bart (1948)

Passed | 80 min | Western

California stage robber Black Bart meets European dancer Lola Montez.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn, Percy Kilbride

Votes: 475

29. Noose for a Gunman (1960)

Approved | 69 min | Western

Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia, Barton MacLane

Votes: 318

30. The Alpha Caper (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull of a $30-million armored car robbery.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

Votes: 233

31. A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)

100 min | Comedy, Western

Two drifters meet and soon become travelling companions. But one of them, Tim (Gemma), is being chased by a crazed killer and his band of gunmen to settle an old score. The two (Adore being... See full summary »

Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka, Federico Boido

Votes: 626

32. The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Framed 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.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Glenn Ford, Edmond O'Brien, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Reed

Votes: 391

33. Dick Tracy (1937)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.

Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta

Votes: 655

34. Backfire (1964)

94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout in this thrilling adventure.

Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renate Ewert

Votes: 338

35. Johnny Angel (1945)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After a New Orleans merchant ship captain finds his father's sister ship derelict at sea, he investigates the crew's mysterious disappearance amid rumors of a smuggled gold cargo.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore

Votes: 1,236

36. Sky Bandits (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Newill, Louise Stanley, Dewey Robinson, William Pawley

Votes: 89

37. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)

Not Rated | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 861 | Gross: $0.42M

38. Wagon Trail (1935)

Passed | 55 min | Western

The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Harry Carey, Gertrude Messinger, Edward Norris, Roger Williams

Votes: 90

39. Escape to Glory (1940)

64 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British ship is attacked by a German U-boat at the onset of World War II. The reactions of the frightened passengers-from a German doctor to a drunken Irishman-are chronicled in this good story.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Constance Bennett, John Halliday, Alan Baxter

Votes: 57

40. The El Paso Kid (1946)

Passed | 54 min | Western

In one of the most-used plots of the B-western genre, sometimes officially and sometimes just "borrowed" (see Movie Connections), Sunset Carson (Sunset Carson) is a member of an outlaw gang... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Sunset Carson, Marie Harmon, Hank Patterson, Edmund Cobb

Votes: 90

41. Hands Up! (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, War

A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.

Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain

Votes: 308

42. The Last of the Line (1914)

20 min | Short, Drama, Western

Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, ... See full summary »

Directors: Jay Hunt, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Joe Goodboy, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Stanely Bigham

Votes: 153

43. Thundering Trails (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

In 1871, the Rangers are disbanded due to lack of funds so Monroe County sets up it's own police force. All ranchers must pay for protection, but those who do not are quickly robbed and/or ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Nell O'Day

Votes: 77

44. Queen of Crime (1938)

55 min | Crime, Thriller

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 68

45. West of the Law (1942)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western

The Rough Riders arrive to fight Rand, Ludlow and their gang. Buck poses as a preacher, Tim as a preacher, and Sandy as an undertaker. Buck not only wants the outlaws, but also their unknown boss.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Cook

Votes: 87

46. California Mail (1936)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western

Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by Banton brothers Roy and Bart, and singing cowboy Bill Harkins. During a stagecoach race to determine ... See full summary »

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Smoke, Edmund Cobb

Votes: 133

47. The Avenger (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Western

Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Otto Hoffman, Sidney Bracey

Votes: 81

48. Men of the North (1930)

Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Drama

Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant (Robert Elliott) suspects Louis LeBey (Gilbert Roland). When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin (Barbara Leonard), ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Barbara Leonard, Arnold Korff, Robert Elliott

Votes: 140

49. Beyond the Sierras (1928)

Passed | 63 min | Western

The U.S. Government sends an undercover-agent to California in the days when American land-thieves were preying upon Sanish families holding rich land-grants from the Spanish Crown. Don ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Tim McCoy, Sylvia Beecher, Roy D'Arcy, Polly Moran

50. Thunderbolt (1935)

Approved | 55 min | Western

A pair of crooked deputies steal a gold shipment, murder a young boy's father and pin the blame on a cowboy. The murdered man's son and his dog set out to prove the cowboy's innocence.

Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Lobo the Marvel Dog, Kane Richmond, Bobby Nelson, Fay McKenzie