Louis L'Amour (Writer)

The Sacketts

A traditional sagebrush saga based on two novels ("Sackett" and "The Daybreakers") by Louis L'Amour. It focuses on the three Sackett brothers in New Mexico after the Civil War, seeking their fortunes, avenging a family killing, driving cattle, and fighting for law and order.

Release Date1979-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Vote Count12

Hondo

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Release Date1953-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count217

Crossfire Trail

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.

Release Date2001-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count40

Shalako

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

Release Date1968-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count83

Catlow

An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Release Date1971-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count24

The Quick and the Dead

In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.

Release Date1987-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count43

The Shadow Riders

After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.

Release Date1982-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count47

Stranger on Horseback

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.

Release Date1955-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count18

Conagher

Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.

Release Date1991-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count27

Heller in Pink Tights

Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string. She's also the object of the attentions of Mabry, a gunslinger who's owed money by the richest man in Bonanza.

Release Date1960-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count29

The Man Called Noon

Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.

Release Date1973-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count16

Taggart

Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.

Release Date1965-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count16

The Burning Hills

When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort.

Release Date1956-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count18

The Diamond of Jeru

Based on Louis L'Amour novel, The Diamond of Jeru tells the story of an American scientist and his wife who hire an ex-pat war veteren to act as a guide on a journey up an unchartered Borneo river in search of diamonds.

Release Date2001-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count8

The Tall Stranger

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.

Release Date1957-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count18

East of Sumatra

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!

Release Date1953-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4

Utah Blaine

Western about Calhoun helping to overcome land-grabbing outlaws.

Release Date1957-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Hondo and the Apaches

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

Release Date1967-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count4

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.

Release Date1986-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Four Guns to the Border

A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.

Release Date1954-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count14

Kid Rodelo

An embittered ex-convict cowboy sets out to find the hidden gold his partner told him about.

Release Date1966-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Treasure of Ruby Hills

Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.

Release Date1955-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count2

Apache Territory

Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small band of soldiers at a water hole. They are ambushed and laid siege to by Apache. As their food and water supplies dwindle a storm arrives which enables Cates to put an escape plan into action.

Release Date1958-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

Cancel My Reservation

Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.

Release Date1972-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.

Release Date1996-06-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Guns of the Timberland

Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells led by Laura Riley are opposed to the felling of the trees, believing that losing them would cause mudslides during the heavy rains. Conflict between the town's residents and the loggers is inevitable.

Release Date1960-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count13

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado

A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.

Release Date1956-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a stagecoach stop on The Cherokee Trail. The story is told from the perspective of Peggy, looking back on her adventures.

Release Date1981-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Flint

Follows James Kettleman, a ruthless East Coast businessman who, in returning to the unforgiving New Mexico frontier, adopts the name Flint, which belonged to the notorious killer who raised him. As he becomes entangled in a violent range war, his encounters with a strong-willed rancher, Nancy Kennigan, challenge him to reconsider the legacy he wants to leave behind.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Fallon

The old west-set Fallon follows Macon Fallon, who is on the run and in need of fast cash. Fallon sets out to con an idealistic group of pioneers, but when a young woman catches on, things take an unexpected turn.

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story