108 Films & TV Shows Set In United States of America During The 1880s
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5 Card Stud
Colorado The 1880sA card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose! — The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
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Shalako
New Mexico The 1880sSean Connery is Shalako! Shalako means action! Action means Bardot! — Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
North Dakota South Dakota The 1880sThe Family That Plays Together, Stays Together — The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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Night of Hate
Arizona The 1880sFulgencio and Scott fled the place where they have just committed a robbery. As Fulgencio scapes, Scott is captured by the police. After serving years in prison, Scott looks for his former partner who fled to Mexico and, with the money, bought a bar. Scott's plan is to force Fulgencio, under threat of denouncing him, to work with him in another robbery.
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Hour of the Gun
Arizona The 1880sMarshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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Black Spurs
Kansas The 1880sBounty Hunter-Law Abiding Killer! — A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
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Lemonade Joe
Arizona The 1880sA satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
🇮🇹 Italy Texas The 1880sIn the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
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A Distant Trumpet
🇲🇽 Mexico Arizona The 1880sFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Horgan's epic novel of Indians and Indian-fighters — In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
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Law of the Lawless
Kansas The 1880sThe "Hanging Judge" had come to the moment of decision! — A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Cattle King
Wyoming The 1880s'RIP DOWN HIS FENCES! GUN DOWN HIS WOMAN! but then they must answer to the man who walks like a giant and fights like a fury! — A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
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How the West Was Won
California The 1850s The 1880s The 1860s The 1830sIt's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed! — The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Sergeant Rutledge
Arizona The 1880sForget all the suspense you have ever seen! Forget all the excitement you have ever known! — Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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Cimarron
Oklahoma The 1880sThe Story Of A Man, A Land and A Love! — The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
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The Wonderful Country
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas The 1880sA Face...A Man...A Motion Picture as Proud and Violent as Tom Lea's Bold and Powerful Novel! — Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
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The Matchmaker
New York The 1880sThornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
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3:10 to Yuma
Arizona The 1880sThe lonesome whistle of a train... bringing the gallows closer to a desperado... the showdown nearer to his captor! — Dave Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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Forty Guns
Arizona The 1880sThe Taming of the Arizona Territory! — An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Kansas Texas The 1880sThe Wildest Gunfight in the History of the West! — Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Man Without a Star
Wyoming The 1880sA love-bargain is like barbed-wire...fight it and you'll get hurt! — Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dee Linford.
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Strange Lady in Town
New Mexico The 1880sShe was the one woman Rork didn't want in Santa Fe... but he'd kill anybody who'd try to make her leave... — There's a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it's Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Earl Holliman, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank DeKova, Nick Adams, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody and Louise Lorimer.
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The Gun That Won the West
Wyoming The 1880sWhen a new kind of weapon wrote history in the Old West! — In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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Battle of Rogue River
Oregon The 1880sTHE LAW OF THE LAST FRONTIER...FIGHT OR DIE! — In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be accomplished. A new Army commander, Major Archer (George Montgomery), is dispatched to bring order and peace to the territory.
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High Noon
New Mexico Kansas The 1880sThe story of a man who was too proud to run. — Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Park Row
New York The 1880sStreet of rogues... reporters... and romance! — In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
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