Best Western Films of 1949
The Man from Colorado
Glenn Ford is top-billed ... Ford has disenfranchised. A fistfight in a burning building brings the no-nonsense Man From Colorado to a brutal conclusion. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Lust for Gold
Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, ... for Gold would turn up as stock footage in future Columbia productions, including an episode of TV's Captain Midnight. [ best western films - 1949 ]
The Fighting Kentuckian
Set shortly after the ... general (Hugo Haas). Oliver Hardy makes a rare appearance sans Stan Laurel as Wayne's pugnacious, philosophical sidekick Willie Payne. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Rim of the Canyon
Gene Autry plays a ... Nan Leslie, later a busy TV character actress; another future TV favorite, Alan Hale Jr., essays a supporting role. [ best western films - 1949 ]
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The second of John ... and the Academy Award-winning photography by Winston C. Hoch, automatically elevates She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to classic status. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Bells of Coronado
Bells of Coronado was ... ask. Given second billing, just below Roy and just above Dale, is Trigger, "The Smartest Horse in the Movies." [ best western films - 1949 ]
Sons of New Mexico
Not quite as memorable ... in the cast is another Gene Autry contractee, Gail Davis, who went on to star as TV's Annie Oakley. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Riders in the Sky
Gene Autry enjoyed considerable ... screen. So effective was this vignette that Columbia included it in the coming-attractions trailer for Riders in the Sky. [ best western films - 1949 ]
The Big Sombrero
Gene Autry sings, fights, ... Like all of Gene Autry's personal productions, Big Sombrero benefits from tasty production values and a surfeit of thrills. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Down Dakota Way
In Roy Rogers' Down ... also bears several musical numbers from Roy, Dale Evans, and Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Riders of the Whistling Pines
Gene Autry's second 1949 ... Patricia Barry. At 72 minutes, Riders of the Whistling Pines was one of the longest of Autry's Columbia efforts. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Susanna Pass
Republic's Trucolor "special" Susanna ... Surprising, Rogers isn't teamed with a comical sidekick, though Estrelita Rodriguez is admittedly pretty funny as a flirtatious senorita. [ best western films - 1949 ]
Special Agent
It had been said ... Larry Tate on TV's Bewitched. Most of Special Agent is filmed on location, adding authenticity to the melodramatic goings-on. [ best western films - 1949 ]
