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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 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.
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.
The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May.It is set during the Texas–Indian wars, and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adopted nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
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.
Quanah swears loyalty to his white friend. Read leaves to fetch government officials to a peace council, but discovers a cavalry detachment that has been massacred by Black Cloud and his renegades. The Government official, Commissioner Ward (Lowell Gilmore), has ordered the cavalry to subdue the Indians, by force if necessary.
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Susannah of the Mounties is a 1939 American Western film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, and Margaret Lockwood. [1] Based on the 1936 novel Susannah of the Mounties by Muriel Denison, the film is about an orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West who is taken in by a Mountie and his girlfriend.