20 best movies like West of Rainbow's End (1938)

List of the best movies like West of Rainbow's End (1938): Bend of the River, Freighters of Destiny, Durango Valley Raiders, Whispering Smith Speaks, Corpus Christi Bandits, Riders of the Rio Grande, Chip of the Flying U, The Fearless Rider, Frontier Town, The Legend of Zorro.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.

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Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, detective
CountryUSA

The Shadow and his outlaw gang have control of Durango Valley. Keene Cordner arrives, and with the help of Tanner becomes a second Shadow in his attempt to round up the gang.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, military
CountryUSA

After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the story of his father Corpus Christi Jim. After robbing a stage, Jim and partners Rocky and Steve decide to go straight and return the money. But the fourth member of the gang, Spade refuses and leaves. The two former partners soon find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

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Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA

Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA, Mexico, Germany
Duration02:09

Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena has thrown him out of the house! Elena has filed for divorce and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand, a dashing French aristocrat. But Alejandro knows something she doesn't: Armand is the evil mastermind behind a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. And so, with his marriage and the county's future at stake, it's up to Zorro to save two unions before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA

Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining project has been killed by outlaws trying to gain possession of the mine. The other brother Nugget Clark wants no part of the law, and is particularly set against the young sheriff courting his niece Trudy.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA

Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.

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Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, music
CountryUSA
Duration00:55

A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to restore the reputation of a friend wrongly accused of murder.

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Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

Dan Ward, reformed and last member of an outlaw family, meets Molly Clark in a rocky draw near town. Ted Wells, a henchman for Dan's enemy Jim Swain, attempts to shoot Dan but is outdrawn and killed by the latter. Molly disappears and Dan learns that she and Wells had ridden there together. Sheriff Bob Larimer tells Dan that Molly is in love with Bert Gilmore and tried to have him ambushed. Dan takes a risky job with mine owner Pember of getting the $10,000 payroll through to the mine. Swain suspects that Dan is carrying the payroll, but his gang is unable to stop Dan. Betty Pember disregards Dan's warning that the hills are filled with Swain's men and she starts for town. She is kidnapped by Gilmore and Molly and Dan ride to her rescue.




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