Merlyn Nelson

Movies6

• Movie6.0

  Western

  When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

  Western Union

  1941 · 88 votes

• Movie6.2

  Western

  Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

  Carson City

  1952 · 20 votes

• Movie7.0

  WesternCrime

  After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

  Colorado Territory

  1949 · 79 votes

• Movie7.2

  Western

  Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....

  The Outriders

  1950 · 15 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

  Texas

  1941 · 25 votes

• Movie7.1

  ComedyWestern

  A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

  Go West, Young Lady

  1941 · 7 votes