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Kentucky Rifle is a 1955 American Western movie starring a buckskin-clad Chill Wills and featuring Cathy Downs, Sterling Holloway and Henry Hull, involving smuggling a wagon filled with rifles past American Indian tribes already aware of the subterfuge. The picture was directed by Carl K. Hittleman.
A Man Called Horse is a 1970 Western film directed by Elliot Silverstein, produced by Sandy Howard, and written by Jack DeWitt.It is based on a short story of the same name by the Western writer Dorothy M. Johnson, first published in 1950 in Collier's magazine and again in 1968 in Johnson's book Indian Country.
The Last Wagon is a 1956 American CinemaScope western film starring Richard Widmark.It was co-written and directed by Delmer Daves and tells a story set during the American Indian Wars: the survivors of an Indian massacre must rely on a man wanted for several murders to lead them out of danger.
The film was shot at the Alamo Village, the movie set originally created for John Wayne's The Alamo (1960). [ 7 ] Two Rode Together was the first of three Westerns that Stewart and Ford would collaborate on; [ 8 ] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance came the following year and Cheyenne Autumn was released in 1964.
Four passengers in a stagecoach are heading west through Indian territory: Barbara, a young woman going to meet her fiancée; Reverend Wheedle, a minister who believes the settlers should make friends with the Indians; Doc, a drunken doctor; and Conroy, a well-dressed “gentleman” with a sly and cynical tone.
In the autumn of 1864 remnants of the Confederate 5th Georgia Cavalry are prisoners of war in the Union prison camp at Rock Island, Illinois.Sick and dying in deplorable conditions, they find a chance for survival when Union Captain Mark Bradford offers them release from "this stinking pesthole" [3] if they will join the Union Army to garrison a fort on the Western frontier, undermanned ...
Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, [1] shot in Blackburn, England. [2] It is believed to be the first dramatic film in the Western genre, [ 3 ] pre-dating Edwin S. Porter 's The Great Train Robbery by four years.
The film is set in the mid-18th century during the French and Indian War (as the Seven Years' War in North America is usually known in the US). It is a partly fictionalized account of the St. Francis Raid, an attack by Rogers' Rangers on Saint Francis (the current Odanak, Quebec), a settlement of the Abenakis, an American Indian tribe. The ...