Here we've displayed a list of the best Lynching films : They Won't Forget(1937), Scottsboro: An American Tragedy(2000), Black Legion(1937), Along the Great Divide(1951), Rebel in Town(1956), Thunder Over the Plains(1953), Mudhoney(1965), Star in the Dust(1956), Law and Order(1953), The Moonlighter(1953), Blazing Guns(1934), The Terror of Tiny Town(1938) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Claude Rains Edward Norris Allyn Joslyn Gloria Dickson Otto Kruger Elisha Cook Jr. Lana Turner Linda Perry
student district attorney professor judge governor janitor tense profound disturbing town courtroom classroom lynching prejudice revenge 1930s
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Documentary
USA
2000
90 Minutes
Daniel Anker
african-american teenager white person prosecutor accuser defense attorney disturbing powerful alabama tennessee courtroom train small town scottsboro boys false accusations rape lynching corruption trial wretched excess underdog
The history of the "Scottsboro Boys," a group of African American men who were victims of a racist miscarriage of justice that became a national controversy.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
83 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Dick Foran Erin O'Brien-Moore Ann Sheridan Robert Barrat Helen Flint Joe Sawyer Addison Richards Eddie Acuff Clifford Soubier Paul Harvey
factory director immigrant wife best friend factory worker disturbing disheartening intense midwest factory hate group xenophobia immigration lynching secret plans fall wretched excess revenge 1930s
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Western
USA
1951
88 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Virginia Mayo John Agar Walter Brennan Ray Teal Hugh Sanders Morris Ankrum James Anderson Charles Meredith
us marshal love interest deputy cattle rustler cattle baron son amusing charming cheeky gritty engaging outlandish patriotic wild wild west desert united states escape rescue lynching
A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.
Western
USA
1956
78 Minutes
John Payne Ruth Roman J. Carrol Naish Ben Cooper John Smith Ben Johnson James Griffith Mary Adams
robber father son brother young boy mother fiery tense gripping rousing arizona small town family home ranch desert bank death of child false accusations cowardice accidental killing
After the Civil War, in a Yankee town five Confederates find trouble when one of them accidentally shoots a local young boy.
Western
USA
1953
82 Minutes
Randolph Scott Lex Barker Phyllis Kirk Charles McGraw Henry Hull Elisha Cook Jr. Hugh Sanders Lane Chandler James Brown Fess Parker Richard Benjamin
lawman northerner politician wife prisoner veteran gutsy tense melodramatic texas jail ranch frontier political corruption framed for murder vigilantism civil war reconstruction carpetbagger lynching pursuit
In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.
Drama
USA
1965
92 Minutes
Hal Hopper Antoinette Cristiani John Furlong Lorna Maitland Rena Horten Princess Livingston Sam Hanna Nick Wolcuff Frank Bolger Lee Ballard F. Rufus Owens
drifter beautiful woman husband preacher prostitute farmer passionate sultry tender outlandish missouri small town farm lake affair jealousy sex mysterious past lynching rural life
It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1956
80 Minutes
John Agar Mamie Van Doren Richard Boone Coleen Gray Leif Erickson James Gleason
sheriff farmer brother-in-law fiancée villager suspenseful brooding thrilling melodramatic brutal farm cattle ranch prison saloon ranch hanging murder bet lynching western films
A Sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.
Western
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Ronald Reagan Dorothy Malone Alex Nicol Preston Foster Ruth Hampton Russell Johnson Barry Kelley Chubby Johnson Jack Kelly Dennis Weaver Wally Cassell
marshal love interest outlaw rancher daughter tense rousing tombstone, ariz. small town jail ranch wild west stand-off lynching murder prison break retirement rivalry revenge quest
Frame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done...
Western
USA
1953
75 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Ward Bond William Ching John Dierkes Morris Ankrum Jack Elam Charles Halton Sam Flint Myra Marsh
cattle rustler brother old flame hobo sheriff rancher fiery engaging thrilling tense american west prison small town ranch bank mountain lynching reunion brother relationship love triangle
A cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover.
Western
USA
1934
58 Minutes
Reb Russell Marion Shilling Lafe McKee Joe Girard Frank McCarroll
cowboy stranger sheriff rancher old friend father melodramatic rousing spirited thrilling utah colorado countryside wilderness small town double-cross mistaken identity framed for murder lynching outlaws
After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw. Slug's men chase them to Ricard's ranch which they burn. After Grady saves the ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1938
63 Minutes
Billy Curtis Yvonne Moray "Little Billy" Rhodes Billy Platt John T. Bambury Joseph Herbst Charles Becker Nita Krebs
villain hero girl wealthy man rancher sheriff fascinating intense quirky wild west small town range ranch saloon blackmail feud cattle rustling romance lynching rivalry
An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue
Western
1957
77 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Viveca Lindfors Ward Bond Betsy Blair Bill Williams Jay C. Flippen Christopher Dark Jeanette Nolan Peter Ortiz
son father brother sister ranch hand emotional melodramatic ranch family home wild west jail small town retribution family racism lynching forbidden love quest revenge 19th century
A rancher becomes the mortal enemy of his son when he allows a vengeful mob to hang the half-caste his daughter loves.
Drama
UK
2015
102 Minutes
Sven Ahlström Mats Blomgren Stefan Cronwall Loa Ek Felix Göransson Oliver Heilmann Wieslaw Komasa Ellen Mattsson Ulrik Munther Inger Nilsson
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The classic radio show (which also inspired a novel, a TV special, and a film) is performed in front of a live audience.