Screenplay: Louis L'Amour

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Louis L'Amour. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Stranger on Horseback

1955 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

6.4

194 votes

6.4

194 votes

Hondo

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Geraldine Page · Ward Bond · Michael Pate

Plot Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Burning Hills

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Tab Hunter · Natalie Wood · Skip Homeier · Eduard Franz

Plot Trace Jordan's brother has been killed by a group of outlaws and they are now closing in on her. But little do they suspect that she is leading them to...

5.6

209 votes

5.6

209 votes

Heller in Pink Tights

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Quinn · Margaret O'Brien · Steve Forrest

Plot Tells the story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West. Its tagline: One foot on the stage... And one step ahead of the law!

5.5

316 votes

5.5

316 votes

The Tall Stranger

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

5.5

86 votes

5.5

86 votes

The Quick and the Dead (TV)

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Day

Cast Sam Elliott · Tom Conti · Kate Capshaw · Kenny Morrison

Plot A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.

5.4

131 votes

5.4

131 votes

Shalako

1968 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Sean Connery · Brigitte Bardot · Stephen Boyd · Jack Hawkins

Plot A fairly standard Louis Lamour western. Shalako, the hunter and tracker has to save a party of European hunters who are in danger from an Indian uprising.

5.4

407 votes

5.4

407 votes

Crossfire Trail (TV)

2001 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Simon Wincer

Cast Tom Selleck · Virginia Madsen · Wilford Brimley · David O'Hara

Plot Rafe Covington promises a dying friend that he'll watch over the man's wife and ranch after he's gone. When Rafe gets to his friend's ranch, he finds that Barkow, the...

5.3

42 votes

5.3

42 votes

The Sacketts (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Movie · 240 min. · United States

Direction Robert Totten

Cast Sam Elliott · Tom Selleck · Jeff Osterhage · Glenn Ford

Plot After the civil war, Tennessee brothers Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are herding cattle out West while Tell Sackett is prospecting for gold in the hills.

5.2

25 votes

5.2

25 votes

Guns of the Timberland

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Alan Ladd · Jeanne Crain · Gilbert Roland · Frankie Avalon

Plot Guns of the Timberland is a 1960 feature film starring Alan Ladd and Jeanne Crain. Alan Ladd plays Jim Hadley, a logger. Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for...

5.1

104 votes

5.1

104 votes

Taggart

1964 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Tony Young · Dan Duryea · Dick Foran · Elsa Cárdenas

Plot Kent Taggart's family, with their cattle stampeded, are killed by those who started it. In a fair gunfight, he kills the man's son responsible for it all and when he...

5.0

50 votes

5.0

50 votes

Apache Territory

1958 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

5.0

81 votes

5.0

81 votes

East of Sumatra

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Jeff Chandler · Marilyn Maxwell · Anthony Quinn · Suzan Ball

Plot 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...

5.0

81 votes

5.0

81 votes

Conagher (TV)

1991 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Reynaldo Villalobos

Cast Sam Elliott · Katharine Ross · Barry Corbin · Billy Green Bush

Plot Conn Conagher, an honest, hardworking cowboy who learns that his fellow ranch hands plan to steal the boss's cattle. Mrs. Evie Teale, who tries to raise a son (Cody Braun)...

4.9

71 votes

4.9

71 votes

The Shadow Riders (TV)

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Tom Selleck · Sam Elliott · Dominique Dunne · Ben Johnson

Plot Tom Selleck (TV's Magnum P.I.) and Sam Elliot (Tombstone) star as brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War only to return home to discover that their family,...

4.9

31 votes

4.9

31 votes

Catlow

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Yul Brynner · Richard Crenna · Leonard Nimoy · Daliah Lavi

Plot An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2-million gold robbery.

4.8

221 votes

4.8

221 votes

The Man Called Noon

1973 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Richard Crenna · Stephen Boyd · Rosanna Schiaffino · Farley Granger

Plot 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...

4.7

58 votes

4.7

58 votes

Kid Rodelo

1966 · Movie · 79 min. · Spain

4.0

24 votes

4.0

24 votes

The Diamond of Jeru (TV)

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Dick Lowry · Ian Barry

Cast Billy Zane · Paris Jefferson · Keith Carradine · Jackson Raine

Plot 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...

3.1

175 votes

3.1

175 votes