51 1920s Western (genre) film stubs

40-Horse Hawkins is a lost 1924 American silent western comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Arizona Days is a 1928 American silent western film directed by J.P. McGowan, who also portrayed the protagonist.

Bells of San Juan is a 1922 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Scott Dunlap and starring Buck Jones. It was based on the Jackson Gregory novel The Bells of San Juan. It was the first of five films where Claude Peyton was cast alongside Jones.

The Best Bad Man is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Lillie Hayward. The film stars Tom Mix, Buster Gardner, Cyril Chadwick, Clara Bow, Tom Kennedy and Frank Beal. The film was released on November 29, 1925, by Fox Film Corporation.

Blinky is a 1923 American comedy-Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson and Esther Ralston.

Border Romance is a 1929 American Pre-Code romantic western film directed by Richard Thorpe. It stars Armida, Don Terry, Marjorie Kane, and Victor Potel.

Code of the West is a 1925 American Western silent film directed by William K. Howard and written by Zane Grey and Lucien Hubbard. The film stars Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Mabel Ballin, Charles Stanton Ogle, David Butler, George Bancroft and Gertrude Short. The film was released on April 6, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.

The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Charles Maigne and stars Mary Miles Minter and Tom Moore. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is based on the Clyde Fitch Broadway stage play of the same name which starred Maxine Elliott and her then-husband Nat C. Goodwin. It was the last silent version of the many silent filming of the play and Minter's third to last motion picture. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Desert Valley is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and written by Randall Faye. The film stars Buck Jones, Virginia Brown Faire, Malcolm Waite, Jack W. Johnston, Charles Brinley and Eugene Pallette. The film was released on December 26, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.

Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande is a 1923 American silent western film directed by George E. Marshall and written by George Hively. The film stars Jack Hoxie, Emmett King, Elinor Field, Fred C. Jones, William Steele, and Bob McKenzie. It is based on a 1921 short story of the same name by Stephen Chalmer. The film was released on June 4, 1923, by Universal Pictures.

Double Danger is a 1920 American short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson.

The Enchanted Hill is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and written by James Shelley Hamilton and Peter B. Kyne. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Noah Beery, Sr., Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, George Bancroft, and Ray Thompson. The film was released on January 18, 1926, by Paramount Pictures.

The Flaming Crisis is a 1924 silent romance Western film written and directed by William H. Grimes.

General Custer at the Little Big Horn is a 1926 silent film historical Western and drama, directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Roy Stewart. It depicts the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Girl-Shy Cowboy is a 1928 American film Western starring Rex Bell and directed by R.L. Hough. It was based on a story by Seton I. Miller.

The Great Divide is a 1929 American pre-Code Western film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, and starring Dorothy Mackaill. The film was released in both a silent and sound version and was directed by Reginald Barker. The Great Divide is a remake of a silent film he made at MGM in 1925. It was shot once again in 1931 as the full sound film Woman Hungry. All three films are based on the 1906 Broadway play The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody.

The Heart Buster is a lost 1924 American silent comedy western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Tom Mix and Esther Ralston. It was produced by and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.

Hell's Heroes (1929) is a Western film, one of many screen adaptations of Peter B. Kyne's 1913 novel The Three Godfathers. Three outlaws, played by Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler, promise a dying woman they will save her newborn child. This film is also notable for being the first sound production directed by William Wyler.

The Heritage of the Desert is a 1924 American Western film directed by Irvin Willat and based on the novel of the same name by Zane Grey. It stars Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, and Noah Beery. The film was released by Paramount Pictures with sequences filmed in an early Technicolor process.

The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature-length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in 1906.

Kit Carson is a surviving 1928 American silent film western film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and Alfred L. Werker and written by Frederic Hatton, Frances Marion and Paul Powell. The film stars Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, Dorothy King, Raoul Paoli, William Courtright and Nelson McDowell. The film was released on June 23, 1928, by Paramount Pictures. It is loosely inspired by the life of the frontiersman Kit Carson. A sound film biopic Kit Carson was released in 1940.

The Lawless Legion is a 1929 American Western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Bennett Cohen, Fred Allen and Leslie Mason. The film stars Ken Maynard, Nora Lane, Paul Hurst, J. P. McGowan, Frank Rice and Howard Truesdale. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 17, 1929.

The Long Long Trail is a 1929 American Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Hoot Gibson in his first sound film. It was produced and released by Universal Pictures. The film survives and has been issued on DVD. The novel was filmed earlier in the silent The Ramblin' Kid (1923) which also starred Gibson.

The Moonshine Feud is a 1920 silent film western short starring Texas Guinan.

Morgan's Last Raid is a lost 1929 American Western silent film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Harry Braxton and Bradley King. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Wheeler Oakman, Al Ernest Garcia and Hank Mann. The film was released on January 5, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

My Own Pal is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Lillie Hayward. The film stars Tom Mix, Olive Borden, Tom Santschi, Virginia Marshall, Ben Bard and William Colvin. The film was released on February 28, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.

The Night Horsemen is a surviving 1921 American silent western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix. It was produced by William Fox and released by Fox Film Corporation. It was advertised as a sequel to the film The Untamed (1920), but the only actor reprising their role was Mix.

No Man's Gold is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by John Stone. The film stars Tom Mix, Eva Novak, Frank Campeau, Mickey Moore, Malcolm Waite, and Forrest Taylor. The film was released on August 29, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.

North of 36 is a 1924 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the novel, North of 36, by Emerson Hough. The film was directed by Irvin Willat and stars Jack Holt and Lois Wilson. This film was preserved in the Library of Congress in the 1970s and has been restored by that archive with a new screening of the restored film in the summer of 2011 in upstate New York.

O'Malley of the Mounted is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Hillyer and William S. Hart. The film stars William S. Hart, Eva Novak, Leo Willis, Alfred Allen, Bert Sprotte, and Antrim Short. The film was released on February 6, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.

One Law for All is a 1920 American short Western film directed by Leo D. Maloney and featuring Hoot Gibson.

Open Range is a lost 1927 American Western silent film directed by Clifford Smith and written by Roy Briant, Zane Grey, J. Walter Ruben and John Stone. The film stars Betty Bronson, Lane Chandler, Fred Kohler, Bernard Siegel, Guy Oliver, Jim Corey and Buck Connors. The film was released on November 11, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

The Overland Telegraph is a 1929 American Western silent film directed by John Waters and written by Harry Sinclair Drago, George C. Hull and Edward J. Meagher. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Janis, Frank Rice, Lawford Davidson, Clarence Geldart and Chief John Big Tree. The film was released on March 2, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The Paleface is a 1922 Buster Keaton two-reeler Western comedy film.

The Pioneer Scout is a 1928 American Western silent film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and Alfred L. Werker and written by Garrett Graham and Frances Marion. The film stars Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, William Courtright and Tom Wilson. The film was released on January 21, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.

The Rainbow is a 1929 American pre-Code western film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Dorothy Sebastian, Lawrence Gray and Sam Hardy.

The Ridin' Renegade is a 1928 American Western directed by Wallace Fox for Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) and starring Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel and Lafe McKee. The film was distributed by FBO and commercially released in the United States on February 19, 1928.

The Royal Rider is a 1929 American Western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Sylvia Bernstein, Jacques Jaccard and Leslie Mason. The film stars Ken Maynard, Olive Hasbrouck, Philippe De Lacy, Theodore Lorch, Joseph Burke and Harry Semels. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 17, 1929.

Salomy Jane is a lost 1923 American silent Western film directed by George Melford, and written by Paul Armstrong, Bret Harte, and Waldemar Young. The film stars Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, William B. Davidson, Charles Stanton Ogle, Billy Quirk, and G. Raymond Nye. The film was released on August 26, 1923, by Paramount Pictures. It is a remake of the 1914 film of the same name.

Singer Jim McKee is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and written by William S. Hart and J.G. Hawks. Starring William S. Hart, Phyllis Haver, J. Gordon Russell, Bert Sprotte, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Edward Coxen, it was released on March 3, 1924, by Paramount Pictures.

Smilin' Guns is a 1929 American silent Western film, directed by Henry MacRae and starring Hoot Gibson.

Sundown is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Laurence Trimble and Harry O. Hoyt, produced and distributed by First National Pictures, and starring Bessie Love. Frances Marion, Marion Fairfax, and Kenneth B. Clarke wrote the screenplay based on an original screen story by Earl Hudson. This film was the only production cinematographer David Thompson ever worked on. This film is presumed lost.

Sunset Pass is a lost 1929 American western film directed by Otto Brower. It stars Jack Holt, Nora Lane, and John Loder.

Suzanna is a 1923 American silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand and directed F. Richard Jones. The picture was produced by Mack Sennett, who also adapted the screenplay from a story by Linton Wells. A partial copy of the film, which is missing two reels, is in a European archive.

The Terror is a 1926 silent film western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Art Acord. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.

The Testing Block is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring William S. Hart, Eva Novak, J. Gordon Russell, Florence Carpenter, Richard Headrick, and Ira McFadden. It was written by Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart. It was released on December 26, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.

Travelin' On is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer, written by William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer, and starring William S. Hart, James Farley, Ethel Grey Terry, Brinsley Shaw, Mary Jane Irving, Bob Kortman, and Willis Marks. It was released on March 5, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress.

Two Moons is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Buck Jones, Carol Holloway, Bert Sprotte, Edward Peil Sr., and Edwin B. Tilton. It is based on the 1920 novel Trails to Two Moons by Robert Welles Ritchie. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on December 19, 1920.

Western Luck is a 1924 American Western film directed by George Beranger and starring Buck Jones, Beatrice Burnham, Pat Hartigan, Thomas G. Lingham, J. Farrell MacDonald and Edith Kennick. Written by Robert N. Lee, the film was released on June 22, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation.

White Gold is a 1927 silent film dramatic western produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by William K. Howard.

With Buffalo Bill on the U.P. Trail; alternately called Buffalo Bill on the U.P. Trail, is a 1926 American silent historical western film starring Roy Stewart as Buffalo Bill Cody. It was directed by Frank Mattison and produced by Anthony J. Xydias.