Greatest 24 Western Movies Releases from 1956

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. Learn about The Searchers / IMDB / YouTube

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. Look into Giant / IMDB / YouTube

In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies. Details on Oklahoma! / IMDB / YouTube

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War. More about Friendly Persuasion / IMDB / YouTube

A former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible. Check out 7 Men from Now / IMDB / YouTube

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it. Check out Love Me Tender / IMDB / YouTube

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed. Details on Jubal / IMDB / YouTube

During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster. Look into The Rainmaker / IMDB / YouTube

Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status. See more about The Last Wagon / IMDB / YouTube

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him. Explore The Fastest Gun Alive / IMDB / YouTube

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter. Info on The Indian Fighter / IMDB / YouTube

Davy and his friends leave for New Orleans to sell some fur pelts. Look into Davy Crockett and the River Pirates / IMDB / YouTube

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold. Check out The King and Four Queens / IMDB / YouTube

Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in. Learn about Backlash / IMDB / YouTube

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place temporarily as Marshal of a small Western town. See more about Gunslinger / IMDB / YouTube

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur. Read about The Beast of Hollow Mountain / IMDB / YouTube

In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses. Details on The Last Hunt / IMDB / YouTube

A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force. Get info on The Last Frontier / IMDB / YouTube

A rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch. Read about Pardners / IMDB / YouTube

With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly. Look into Tribute to a Bad Man / IMDB / YouTube

Marshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness. Explore The Proud Ones / IMDB / YouTube

When Confederate officer Colt Saunders returns to his Texas ranch after the war he finds his lands wanted by carpetbaggers and by corrupt provisional government commissioners Harrison and Cable. Info on Three Violent People / IMDB / YouTube

An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn. Look into 7th Cavalry / IMDB / YouTube

During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way. Look into The Great Locomotive Chase / IMDB / YouTube