Empty Saddles (1936)

O jovem Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) fica encarregado de cuidar do rancho da família, junto com sua mãe e seu irmão mais novo, quando o pai dele viaja para levar uma boiada, na década de 1860. O pequeno Arliss Coates (Kevin Cocoran) acha um cão amarelo perdido na fazenda e resolve dar abrigo, mesmo com a resistência do irmão mais velho Travis. Logo, o cão passa a ser muito amado por todos, mas o seu tempo junto à família pode não durar muito.

Mary Ann é o dono de um matadouro e tem ligações com Jake, um grande da Máfia. Seu negócio é apenas fachada para comércio de drogas e prostituição. Ele deve uma grande quantia a Jake mas os primeiros cobradores viraram linguica (literalmente). Assim, Nick Devlin é contratado pelo mafioso para receber a dívida.

O misterioso Will Lockhart entrega suprimentos à lojista Barbara Waggoman em Coronado, uma cidade isolada em território Apache. Em pouco tempo, ele é confrontado por Dave Waggoman, o sádico filho do fazendeiro Alec e primo da bela Bárbara. Mas ele fica para a cidade, e sua presença é um catalisador de mudança na vida do povo, procurando alguém que não sabe quem ele é... mas que foi responsável pela venda de espingardas para os Apaches.

Os amigos vaqueiros Pete Calder e Big Boy Matson voltam para a fazenda depois de lutarem na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pete espera voltar à simplicidade do pastoreio de gado, mas o rico fazendeiro local, Jim Ed Love o avisa que os caminhos do Velho Oeste não são mais os mesmos. Big Boy, briga, faz apostas e ganha o afeto da sedutora casada, Mona. Josefa anseia por Pete, mas ele quer o que Big Boy tem.

Shane entra no meio de um conflito entre o criador de gado Ryker e um grupo de colonos, dentre eles os Starretts, cuja terra Ryker quer. Quando Shane espanca Chris, um capanga de Ryker, Ryker tenta comtratá-lo. Em seguida, Shane e Joe Starrett enfrentam toda a gang de Ryker. Então Ryker envia para Cheyenne o pistoleiro profissional Wilson. Ficamos sabendo da relação de Shane com Marian, a esposa de Joe. Shane deverá eliminar todas as armas do vale antes que possa montar seu cavalo e ir embora, com o pequeno Joey gritando "Shane... Shane... Volte!"

Will Penny, um vaqueiro de meia-idade solitário que trabalha em um rancho no Velho Oeste americano se indispõe seriamente com posseiros, mas acaba se apaixonando pela viúva da casa.

Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.

Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.

The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.

The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.

Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.

An "absolutely authentic account of the grazing land battles of the sheep and cattle wars of the early west," pitting sheep rancher Droopy against a cattle ranching wolf.

Esta é a história de uma triste realidade entre Lee Strobie (Robert Walker), o filho mal caráter de um fazendeiro, e seu irmão adotivo, o honesto Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster). Lee enganou sua fiel esposa Jen (Joanne Dru) com uma moça da cidade (Sally Forrest) e teve um filho ilegítimo como resultado. Owen por ajudar a amante do irmão, é perseguido por engano pela família da moça para vingar a honra.

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed by banditos. They survive, but during the course of the struggle, the cattle hands learn the truth and ensure that justice gets served.