This Savage Land

Jul 23, 1969

1h 37m

★ 5.7

It Was the Last Frontier...And it Took a Special Breed of Men to Tame It!

Overview

Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harassed by Confederate marauders. This was the pilot for the television series 'The Road West ', originally aired in two episodes.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Universal Television

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Cast

Benjamin Pride

Barry Sullivan

Chance Reynolds

Glenn Corbett

Elizabeth Reynolds

Kathryn Hays

Timothy Pride

Andrew Prine

Margaret 'Midge' Pride

Brenda Scott

Stacy Daggart

John Drew Barrymore

Jud Barker

George C. Scott

Grandpa Pride

Charles Seel

Christopher 'Kip' Pride

Kelly Corcoran

Grandma Pride

Katherine Squire

Nate

Terry Wilson

Dr. Mordecai Reynolds

Roy Roberts

The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the Paiute Indians don't want the Pony Express riding across their land, and the manager's assistant, Curtis Wade, is itching to make a name for himself as an Indian fighter. The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"

7.0

The Horse Soldiers

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A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

6.2

The Undefeated

Oct 4, 1969

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.

5.0

Jonah Hex

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Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slew his wife and child.

6.9

Shenandoah

Jun 3, 1965

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

0.0

Broken Sabre

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Western about a West Point graduate who was falsely accused of cowardice and thrown out of the army. Edited from episodes of the TV show "Branded".

6.5

The Raid

Aug 4, 1954

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

0.0

The Tenderfoot

Apr 7, 1966

Based on author James H. Tevis' Arizona in the 50s. Natural dangers and hostile Indians create problems for travelers in the West in the 1850s; a young man almost killed in an Indian raid looks to a frontier scout, Mose Carson, for an education. They get involved in a plan to sell wild mustangs to the Army. The edited-down theatertical release of a 3-part miniseries that aired on television.

6.2

Escape from Fort Bravo

Dec 4, 1953

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

6.1

Alvarez Kelly

Oct 6, 1966

In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.

7.0

Rebel in Town

Jul 30, 1956

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death

6.2

Two Flags West

Oct 12, 1950

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

6.8

Hondo and the Apaches

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Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.

5.6

The Oklahoman

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After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.

0.0

Trouble on the Trail

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5.1

Guns of Diablo

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14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria, who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin. The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine. Edited from TV series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters