20 movies like The Oklahoman, ordered by similarity : Texas Across the River(1966), Tumbleweeds(1925), Canyon Passage(1946), Tall in the Saddle(1944), Fort Dobbs(1958), Return to Snowy River(1988), Montana Belle(1952), The Hanging Tree(1959), Cimarron(1931), The Paleface(1948), Tall Man Riding(1955), Phantom Rancher(1939) ...
Western
USA
1957
80 Minutes
Joel McCrea Barbara Hale Brad Dexter Gloria Talbott Verna Felton Douglas Dick Michael Pate Anthony Caruso Esther Dale Adam Williams Ray Teal
doctor wife daughter widow native american woman bully endearing spirited oklahoma wild west small town house farm oil field relocation native americans love triangle relationships territorial disputes old west
A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.
Comedy, Western
USA
1966
101 Minutes
Dean Martin Alain Delon Joey Bishop Rosemary Forsyth Tina Marquand Peter Graves Michael Ansara Linden Chiles Andrew Prine Stuart Anderson Roy Barcroft
nobleman fiancée gunrunner native american woman native american love interest amusing brash hilarious texas louisiana wagon train country road wild west engagement native americans friendship love triangle love old west
In 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.
Western
USA
1925
89 Minutes
William S. Hart Barbara Bedford Lucien Littlefield J. Gordon Russell Richard R. Neill Jack Murphy Lillian Leighton Gertrude Claire George F. Marion James Gordon Fred Gamble
cowboy drifter love interest homesteader best friend native american tense gripping amusing cherokee strip caldwell, kan. oklahoma prairie small town saloon land rush love imprisonment love quest
The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1946
92 Minutes
Dana Andrews Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward Patricia Roc Ward Bond Andy Devine Rose Hobart Halliwell Hobbes Lloyd Bridges Stanley Ridges Dorothy Peterson
shop owner fiancée banker gambler best friend love interest spirited wild powerful oregon saloon frontier general store cabin portland, ore. romantic dilemma love triangle old west frontier life crime
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Western
USA
1944
87 Minutes
John Wayne Ella Raines Audrey Long Ward Bond George "Gabby" Hayes Elisabeth Risdon Raymond Hatton
cowboy rancher woman niece judge aunt thrilling intricate spirited melodramatic wild west town ranch saloon road inheritance murder love triangle corruption sexism
Ranch hand Rocklin arrives in town to start his new job but his employer has been murdered and the locals don't seem too friendly.
Western
USA
1958
90 Minutes
Clint Walker Virginia Mayo Brian Keith Richard Eyer Russ Conway Michael Dante
native american comanche warrior fugitive widow son boy thrilling melodramatic suspenseful wild west farm fort frontier town on the run unlikely romance mob mentality journey wrongfully accused helping others
Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.
Western
Australia
1988
99 Minutes
Tom Burlinson Sigrid Thornton Brian Dennehy Nicholas Eadie Bryan Marshall Rhys McConnochie Mark Hembrow Peter Cummins Cornelia Frances Tony Barry
cattleman love interest father banker son romantic rival tender spirited mountain cabin australia range snowy river love triangle father/daughter relationship jealousy horses love reunion forbidden love
Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.
Western
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Jane Russell George Brent Scott Brady Forrest Tucker Andy Devine Jack Lambert John Litel Ray Teal Rory Mallinson Roy Barcroft Hollis Bane
outlaw brother marshal native american gambler saloon owner spirited sultry tense intricate oklahoma saloon small town jail desert hideout belle starr love triangle robbery gambling
In 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.
Western
USA
1959
106 Minutes
Gary Cooper Maria Schell Karl Malden Ben Piazza George C. Scott Karl Swenson Virginia Gregg John Dierkes King Donovan Slim Talbot Guy Wilkerson
doctor immigrant townsperson partner criminal servant dark somber engaging mining camp tree house montana wild west starting over love interest murder the past rescue old west
Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.
Western
USA
1931
131 Minutes
Richard Dix Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor Nance O'Neil William Collier Jr. Roscoe Ates George E. Stone Robert McWade Edna May Oliver Frank Darien Eugene Jackson
editor wife prostitute servant outlaw native american rousing wild oklahoma oil field courtroom gambling house abandonment trial oil newspapers marriage land rush adventure love
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Comedy, Western
USA
1948
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Jane Russell Robert Armstrong Iris Adrian Bobby Watson Jackie Searle Joseph Vitale Charles Trowbridge Clem Bevans Jeff York Stanley Andrews
dentist calamity jane federal agent gunrunner native american partner charming hilarious lighthearted rousing wild west wagon train small town saloon jail california unlikely hero bravery gunfight redemption
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
Western
USA
1955
83 Minutes
Randolph Scott Dorothy Malone Peggie Castle William Ching John Baragrey Robert Barrat John Dehner Paul Richards Lane Chandler Mickey Simpson Joe Bassett
land baron former lover daughter cowboy saloon owner husband melodramatic tense confident ranch saloon wild west house land claim family forbidden love double-cross crime old west temptation
Larry Madden returns to Little River after several years, still vowing to avenge himself against the humiliating whipping he received at the hands of cattle baron Tucker Ordway.
Western
USA
1939
61 Minutes
Ken Maynard Dorothy Short Harry Harvey Ted Adams Dave O'Brien Tom London John Elliott Reed Howes
masked man outlaw sheriff vigilante rancher love interest rousing spirited engaging ranch pasture farm frontier wild west town land dispute old west romance murder foreclosure
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
Western
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Robert Taylor Ava Gardner Howard Keel Anthony Quinn Kurt Kaszner Ted de Corsia Charlita Jack Elam Walter Baldwin Joe Dominguez Frank McGrath
bandit adoptive brother husband wife rancher fascinating melodramatic intense texas ranch sibling rivalry love triangle confrontation old west husband/wife relationship gunfight discovery love rescue 1860s
Two outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised together as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their territory.
Drama, Western
Canada
2008
90 Minutes
Patty Duke Sarah Jones Haylie Duff Jordan Bridges Courtney Halverson Michael Trevino Jeffrey Muller Dahlia Salem
midwife doctor adopted daughter pregnant woman friend uplifting melodramatic moving united states small town pregnancy infertility adoption first love love home life folk medicine birth love growing up
Follows the relationship between a classical music critic and a country music star after a one night stand, which results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Western
USA
1965
112 Minutes
Tom Tryon Harve Presnell Senta Berger Michael Anderson Jr. James Caan Slim Pickens Wayne Rogers Andrew Duggan Peter Breck Jeanne Cooper Laurel Goodwin
general soldier beautiful woman recruit native american tyrant engaging rousing melodramatic frontier battlefield small town bar camp american indian wars leadership military life love triangle battle death
What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
Western
USA
1952
71 Minutes
Dennis Morgan Philip Carey Amanda Blake Rita Moreno Paul Picerni Ray Teal Jay Novello George O'Hanlon Robert Wilke Sheb Wooley Charles Meredith
governor cattle rancher cattleman daughter love interest wealthy man brooding engaging gutsy unrestrained spirited striking texas cattle ranchers illegal activity father/daughter relationship new love power saving the town rescue
Post-civil-war Texas sells lands to wealthy Northerners but some of them are crooks bent on cheating the locals, prompting an investigation headed by the governor's envoy.
Western
USA
1950
109 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Walter Huston Wendell Corey Judith Anderson Gilbert Roland Thomas Gomez Beulah Bondi Albert Van Dekker John Bromfield Wallace Ford Blanche Yurka
childhood friend father daughter bad boy gambler rancher dark tense sultry melodramatic ranch new mexico family home wild west town father/daughter relationship family dysfunction jealousy love triangle power struggle
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Western
USA
1968
109 Minutes
Gregory Peck Eva Marie Saint Robert Forster Noland Clay Russ Thorson Frank Silvera Lonny Chapman Lou Frizzell Henry Beckman Charles Tyner Richard Bull
scout native american woman warrior son intense gritty arizona territory new mexico desert cabin wild west native americans relocation captivity mother/child relationship old west escape discovery rescue
A sympathetic retired army scout takes-in a white woman and her half-Apache son, not knowing that the boy's father, a murderous renegade Apache, is after them.
Western
USA
1953
118 Minutes
Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Brandon de Wilde Jack Palance Ben Johnson Edgar Buchanan Emile Meyer Elisha Cook Jr. Douglas Spencer John Dierkes
gunslinger farmer wife son bad guy gripping tender moving wyoming small town farm family forbidden love land wars justice sacrifice rivalry love 1880s
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.
Western
USA
1938
55 Minutes
Roy Rogers Lynne Roberts Myrtle Wiseman Scott Wiseman Stanley Andrews William Farnum
business owner cattle rancher roy rogers love interest cowgirl daughter charming spirited thrilling ranch wild west house father/daughter relationship loyalty honor land dispute cattle rustling false accusations rivalry love
The one time partnership between two men has turned into a full fledged range war. Roy is the son of one of the former partners, the heroine is daughter to the other. The film featured and ... See full summary »