Top 100 Sheriff movies
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Giant from the Unknown (1958)
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A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.
Decision at Sundown (1957)
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A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
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Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
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Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
The Quiet Gun (1957)
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A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
The Ride Back (1957)
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A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
The Iron Sheriff (1957)
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Gunsight Ridge (1957)
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An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
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An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
The Proud Ones (1956)
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Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
Star in the Dust (1956)
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The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
Gunslinger (1956)
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After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.
Showdown at Abilene (1956)
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Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.
7 Men from Now (1956)
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A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
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A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
Black Horse Canyon (1954)
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The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
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A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
Fighting Lawman (1953)
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A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities.