Once Upon a Time in a Western

Belle Starr and her Cherokee Indian husband are dead, according to the opening credits, but their unholy union has resulted in a son bearing the “stigma of a born …

Audie Murphy plays John Gant, a notorious killer for hire who shows up in Lordsburg. Problem is, no one knows who he’s been hired to kill. But the good …

John Agar plays Bill Jordan, sheriff of Gunlock, and he’s in a heap of trouble. He has Sam Hall (Richard Boone), a gunman accused of three murders, in his …

Jeff Morrow is “Hack” Williams, who has the misfortune of riding into Copper Sky just as an Apache is killed. He fires a shot at the killer, and is …

Four saloon girls are kicked out of Beecher City because one of them helped a former member of Quantrill’s Confederate raiders break out of jail. When their coach breaks …

John Payne is Tennessee, a womanizing gambler who sets up shop in the Marriage Market, a high-toned hangout run by Duchess (Rhonda Fleming). He’s such a good gambler, he’s …

Jim Davis is Marshal Matt Gordon, who finds himself torn between doing his duty and being forced to track down a childhood friend. His posse captures Cheney Holland (Don …

When her husband is brutally gunned down before her eyes, Rose Hood (Beverly Garland) pins on the marshal’s badge and decides to clean up the town of Oracle and …

Scott Brady plays Jonathan Adams, an 18th-century painter from Boston doing frontier landscapes for Massachusetts Society. He makes sure to have a cow and trees in each painting; the …

Van Heflin plays Luke Fargo, who watched a preacher die during the Battle of Vicksburg and returns from the Civil War intent on teaching God’s word. This comes as …