Screenplay: Zane Grey

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Zane Grey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Western Union

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore

Plot While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had...

6.4

680 votes

6.4

680 votes

Red Canyon

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Ann Blyth · Howard Duff · George Brent · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and 1959. Howard Duff plays wandering cowpoke Lin Sloane, who spends most of the film...

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

Heritage of the Desert

1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · J. Farrell MacDonald · David Landau

Plot Nabb controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except Holderness and his stolen cattle. When Nabb refuses to sell, Holderness works an his son Snap who has run...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

The Maverick Queen

1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Scott Brady · Mary Murphy

Plot A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.

5.7

111 votes

5.7

111 votes

Gunfighters

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Randolph Scott · Barbara Britton · Bruce Cabot · Charley Grapewin

Plot Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the...

5.6

82 votes

5.6

82 votes

Fighting Caravans

1931 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower · David Burton

Cast Gary Cooper · Lili Damita · Ernest Torrence · Tully Marshall

Plot A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling...

5.4

210 votes

5.4

210 votes

To the Last Man

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Esther Ralston · Jack La Rue · Buster Crabbe

Plot In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when...

5.4

37 votes

5.4

37 votes

Fighting Blood (S)

1911 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast George Nichols · Kate Bruce · Robert Harron · Florence La Badie

Plot After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Man of the Forest

1933 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

5.2

113 votes

5.2

113 votes

Robbers' Roost

1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast George Montgomery · Richard Boone · Sylvia Findley. · Bruce Bennett

Plot Jim "Tex" Wall (George Montgomery), searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays (Richard...

5.1

42 votes

5.1

42 votes

Riders of the Purple Sage (TV)

1996 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Charles Haid

Cast Ed Harris · Amy Madigan · Henry Thomas · Robin Tunney

Plot Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen,...

4.9

72 votes

4.9

72 votes

Born to the West

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast John Wayne · Marsha Hunt · Johnny Mack Brown · John Patterson

Plot Dare Rudd (John Wayne) takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend, Judy (Marsha Hunt) who asks Tom (Johnny Mack Brown) to hire Dare to head the big cattle...

4.7

29 votes

4.7

29 votes

The Thundering Herd (Buffalo Stampede)

1933 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

4.6

93 votes

4.6

93 votes

Riders of the Purple Sage

1941 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction James Tinling

Cast George Montgomery · Mary Howard · Robert Barrat · Lynne Roberts

Plot Lassiter discovers the judge (Barrat) who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of badguys posing as vigilantes.

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Sunset Pass

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

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Riders of the Purple Sage

1918 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

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The Arizona Raiders

1936 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

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Nevada

1935 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Buster Crabbe · Kathleen Burke · Syd Saylor · Monte Blue

Plot A gambler (Larry “Buster” Crabbe) wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.

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Code of the West

1947 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast James Warren · Debra Alden · John Laurenz · Steve Brodie

Plot Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton...

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Not rated

Wild Horse Mesa

1925 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Jack Holt · Noah Beery · Billie Dove · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Plot Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.

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Not rated