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Rangers in Film

The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame has a complete listing of movies featuring Texas Rangers.

 
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez , a young Mexican family man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country. Directed by Robert M. Young.  Starring Edward James Olmos. Based on the book With a Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes. PG
Bonnie and Clyde
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Directed by Arthur Penn.  Starring Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway. R
The Comancheros
A Texas Ranger works undercover to foil a notorious gang of outlaws. Directed by Michael Curtiz & John Wayne.  Starring John Wayne.  Based on the book by Paul I. Wellman. NR
Dead Man's Walk
Before they tamed Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were two brash teenaged Texas Rangers, ready for action as fresh-faced lawmen battling villains on the frontiers of the Old West. Gus and Call face the wildest adventures of their young lives on the deadly trail to Santa Fe. After several hundred miles and countless lives, their fateful showdown will create two courageous Rangers and one Old West legend.  Directed by Yves Simoneau.  Starring David Arquette & Jonny Lee Miller.  Based on the book Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry. PG-13
Lonesome Dove
Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. Directed by Simon Wincer.  Starring Robert Duvall & Tommy Lee Jones. Based on the book Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. NR
 
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City Gold
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fight an outlaw gang's quest for a hidden treasure belonging to a peaceful Indian tribe. Directed by Lesley Selander.  Starring Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels. NR
 
Lone Wolf McQuade
The story of a hard-driving, beer-drinking lawman whose unorthodox methods have helped him remain a successful loner. Combines Western sytle and the martial arts. Directed by Steve Carver.  Starring Chuck Norris & David Carradine. PG
 
Newton Boys
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history. Directed by Richard Linklater.  Starring Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich,  & Ethan Hawke. PG-13
The Outlaw Josey Wales
A peaceful farmer turns Confederate renegade to avenge the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of bandits-turned-Union sympathizers. Directed by & starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the book Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter. PG
 
Return to Lonesome Dove
After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north to the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, triumph, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there. From Indian battles and deadly gunfights, to broken hearts and broken dreams, it's another incredible adventure you'll be able to treasure time and again. Directed by Mike Robe.  Starring Jon Voight & Barbara Hershey. NR
The Searchers
Ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards is an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. Directed by John Ford.  Starring John Wayne.  Based on the book The Searchers by Alan LeMay. NR
Streets of Laredo
Legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call is hard on the trail of murderous young train robber Joey Garza. Joined by his sidekick Pea Eye, Call will wage the fight of his life as he battles to bring his quarry to justice - and bring himself and those riding with him out of the wilderness alive. Directed by Joseph Sargent.  Starring James Garner, Sissy Spacek, & Sam Shepard.  Based on the book Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. NR
Texas
In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Mexico. As the years go by, political conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican government are escalating which would lead to war and Texan independence. Directed by Richard Lang.  Starring Patrick Duffy, Stacy Keach, & John Schneider.  Based on a book Texas by James A. Michener. NR
 
Texas Rangers
In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander McNelly organizes the Texas Rangers to battle the outlaws terrorizing Texas , notably crime kingpin John King Fisher. With a team of experienced gunmen and enthusiastic but green recruits, McNelly and his Rangers bring law and order to the wild Texas plains. McNelly must also keep order among his charges when two rangers fall in love with the same woman. Directed by Steve Miner.  Starring James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, & Dylan McDermott.  Based on the book Taming of the Nueces Strip: the story of McNelly's Rangers by George Durham as told to Clyde Wantland. PG-13
 
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
In 1946, the joy and relief over the ending of World War II and the happiness over the prosperity that followed were destroyed by five unsolved brutal murders in Texarkana, Texas, by a masked madman who eluded capture by the Texas Rangers. Directed by Charles B. Pierce.  Starring Ben Johnson & Andrew Pine. R
True Grit
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest. Directed by Henry Hathaway.  Starring John Wayne, Glen Campbell, & Kim Darby. Based on the book by Charles Portes. G



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