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1. The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,544
2. Zorro Rides Again (1937)
Approved | 212 min | Family, Western
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden.... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: John Carroll, Noah Beery, Richard Alexander, Reed Howes
Votes: 337
3. Old San Francisco (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
In San Francisco, a villainous land owner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 413
4. The Black Coin (1936)
Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen
Votes: 82
5. The Renegade Ranger (1938)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western
Texas Ranger Jack Steele is assigned to bring in former ranch owner Judith Alvarez, now the leader of a gang who is waging war against the crooked government officials who cheated the ranchers out of their land.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Rita Hayworth, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley
Votes: 365
6. Mark of the Renegade (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Set in 19th century California Marcos Zappa goes undercover as a pirate to expose the crooked Don Pedro Garcia.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 249
7. Yaqui Drums (1956)
71 min | Western
After his brother's mysterious murder, Webb Dunham takes over his ranch but runs into conflict with strongman rancher Matt Quigg who covets all local lands in a region infested with Yaqui Mexican bandits.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Rod Cameron, Mary Castle, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Hutton
Votes: 33
8. The Californian (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Action, History, Romance
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver, Katherine DeMille, Maurice Black
Votes: 61
9. The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
Approved | 229 min | Western
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.
Directors: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Robert Livingston, Kay Hughes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 102
10. The Santa Fe Trail (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green
Votes: 27
11. Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Esra Kincaid takes land by force, and having taken the Espinoza land, he sets his sight on the Castro rancho U.S. Government Agent Kearney holds him off until the cavalry shows up and he ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Jane Darwell, Dick La Reno, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.09M
12. For the Soul of Rafael (1920)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a marriage between the two, because she ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Garson | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Bertram Grassby, Eugenie Besserer, Juan de la Cruz
Votes: 16
13. The Cavalier (1928)
Passed | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story takes place in old Mexico, where a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her father sends... See full synopsis »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Barbara Bedford, Nora Cecil, David Torrence
Votes: 21
14. Daughter of Don Q (1946)
Approved | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to heirs of Don Quantero.
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Lorna Gray, Kirk Alyn, LeRoy Mason, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 71
15. In Old California (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Tom Keene, Helen Ferguson, Henry B. Walthall, Carlotta Monti
Votes: 14
16. Gun to Gun (1944)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Western
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Robert Shayne, Lupita Tovar, Pedro de Cordoba, Harry Woods
Votes: 87
17. Somewhere in Sonora (1927)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Framed for a stagecoach accident, John Bishop is jailed. Bob Leady helps break him out and in return John heads for Sonora to look for Leady's missing son. He finds him when he joins Monte ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Kathleen Collins, Frank Leigh, Joseph Bennett
18. Ready to Ride (1950)
Approved | 30 min | Short, Action, Drama
In this 30-minute remake of Universal's 1938 "Outlaw Express" and filled from front to back with footage edited from that film, Tex Williams (Tex Williams) is a United States Army officer ... See full summary »
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Donna Martell
19. The Canyon of Adventure (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Set in the days before California became a state, Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, Eric Mayne, Theodore Lorch
Votes: 21
20. Captain Courtesy (1915)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1840, while California is ruled by Mexico, American settlers are in constant danger from Mexican marauders. After a band of Mexican soldiers led by American renegade George Granville ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Courtenay Foote, Herbert Standing
Votes: 17
21. Silver City Raiders (1943)
Approved | 55 min | Western
Lucky finds he no longer owns his ranch when Bart Dawson appears with a Spanish land grant which gives him, as sole heir, ownership of all the ranches in the valley. When Lucky refuses to ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
22.
The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode:
Property of the Crown
(1962)
30 min | Western
A young Mexican woman arrives in Pat Garrett's office with a centuries old document that appears to be a Spanish land grant which gives her family title to half the land in Lincoln County. ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Miriam Colon, Katherine Warren
Votes: 10
23.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Pieces of the Puzzle
(1968)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
"The Baron of Arizona," James Reavis, files a claim against the government.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Taylor, Russell Johnson, Garry Walberg, Anna Navarro
Votes: 28