Female Gunfighters
Westerns where the women don't just put the ammunition in the rifles when the Indians attack...
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- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.Joan Crawford
- DirectorDon 'Red' BarryStarsDon 'Red' BarryPeggie CastleJack BuetelJesse James keeps so busy skirt-chasing that his outlaw career starts to suffer.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsGeorge MontgomeryRod CameronRuth RomanThe daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetWallace GrissellStarsGeorge J. LewisLinda StirlingLucien LittlefieldHammond, a leading citizen who owns the town's stagecoach line, is opposed to Idaho becoming a state, and kills Randolph Meredith, owner of the town's newspaper, for endorsing it. Meredith's sister Barbara, expert with a bullwhip and pistol, dons a black costume and mask and becomes "The Black Whip", dealing a blow to Hammond and his gang each time they perform some heinous act in their efforts to keep the town, and their power over it, unchanged. Aided by government agent Vic Gordon, Barbara confronts Hammond in a final showdown just as the town votes on whether or not to accept statehood.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsGeorge O'BrienRita HayworthTim HoltTexas Ranger Jack Steele is assigned to bring in former ranch owner Judith Alvarez, now the leader of a gang who is waging war against the crooked government officials who cheated the ranchers out of their land.Rita Hayworth
- DirectorJorge López PortilloStarsJeff MorrowMerry AndersJim RossA Texas Marshal transports five female prisoners to prison but their stagecoach is attacked en route by the Comanches and the ex-husband of one prisoner attempts to free her.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsBill ElliottMarie WindsorForrest TuckerA reformed gambler turned preacher partnered with a pretty female fugitive outlaw runs into an old pal who's also a marshal, and they both fall for the same bad gal.Marie Windsor
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsGeorge MontgomeryRod CameronMarie WindsorFemale outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.Marie Windsor
- DirectorSam NewfieldRon OrmondStarsMarie WindsorRichard RoberCarla BalendaThis rather unusual 50s western is set in a town where men may not enter. The town is controlled by a woman gambler who eventually succumbs to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.Marie Windsor
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJohn LundBrian DonlevyAudrey TotterLaying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.Joan Leslie and Audrey Totter
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRandolph ScottGene TierneyDana AndrewsAt the end of the Civil War, an embittered Southern belle joins forces with a Confederate guerrilla leader to raid Union towns.Gene Tierney
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsJack BuetelMala PowersBill WilliamsA white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsBarbara StanwyckFred MacMurrayWard BondA cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover.Barbara Stanwyck
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsMerry AndersLisa DavisPenny EdwardsFemale relatives of the infamous Dalton gang carry on the family tradition.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsYvonne De CarloHoward DuffDorothy HartGood luck with horses and women pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry.Yvonne Decarlo
- DirectorFritz LangStarsMarlene DietrichArthur KennedyMel FerrerAfter the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.Marlene Dietrich
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJane RussellGeorge BrentScott BradyIn Oklahoma, outlaw Belle Starr joins the Dalton gang but she causes a romantic rivalry and a rift between the gang members, especially on the eve of the planned robbery of a bank where a posse is secretly waiting in ambush.Jane Russell
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsVera RalstonJohn CarrollWilliam ChingAfter serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister.Vera Ralston
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJohn IrelandBeverly GarlandAllison HayesAfter her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place temporarily as Marshal of a small Western town.Beverly Garland
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsAnn SavageAlan CurtisEdward BrophyAnn Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother.Ann Savage
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsDick PowellJane GreerAgnes MooreheadAfter two U.S. cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, U.S. Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.Jane Greer
- DirectorCarl K. HittlemanStarsPatricia MedinaRichard DenningGerald MohrA tough beautiful, woman is attracted to a new young doctor in town, but has to contend with a reckless gunslinger who wants her at any cost.
- DirectorRichard BartlettStarsPeggie CastleWilliam TalmanMarie WindsorA young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing to help her track them down.Peggie Castle
- DirectorRod AmateauStarsJohn IrelandWayne MorrisLawrence TierneyAn evil arthritic rancher and his murderous daughter are having settlers killed to prevent them from selling their land to the railroad.Dorothy Malone