Texas Ranger you'd want to cover your back
by dan_dassow | created - 31 Dec 2013 | updated - 01 Jan 2014 | PublicWhich of these Texas Rangers would you most want to cover your back?
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1. The Lone Ranger (1949–1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.
Stars: Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore, John Hart, Chuck Courtney
Votes: 1,859
The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
2. Lonesome Dove (1989)
TV-14 | 384 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane
Votes: 19,060
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae (Robert Duvall)
3. Lonesome Dove (1989)
TV-14 | 384 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane
Votes: 19,060
Woodrow F. Call (Tommy Lee Jones)
4. The Comancheros (1961)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 7,630
Capt. Jake Cutter (John Wayne)
5. North West Mounted Police (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,344
Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper)
6. Streets of Laredo (1949)
Passed | 93 min | Western
An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, William Bendix
Votes: 555
Jim Dawkins (William Holden)
7. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
R | 111 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Votes: 96,506
Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle)
8. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 74,906
Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton (Ward Bond)
9. The Last of the Duanes (1930)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: George O'Brien, Lucile Browne, Myrna Loy, Walter McGrail
Votes: 41
Buck Duane (George O'Brien)
10. The Lone Ranger (2013)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 212,250 | Gross: $89.30M
ch0126373 (Armie Hammer)
11. Extreme Prejudice (1987)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Maria Conchita Alonso
Votes: 5,713 | Gross: $11.31M
Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte)
12. Last Man Standing (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken
Votes: 50,962 | Gross: $17.60M
Capt. Tom Pickett (Ken Jenkins)
13. The Texas Rangers (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 622
Jim Hawkins (Fred MacMurray)
14. Man of the House (I) (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Crime
A Texas Ranger must protect a group of cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Christina Milian, Kelli Garner, Cedric the Entertainer
Votes: 22,003 | Gross: $19.70M
Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones)
15. King of the Texas Rangers (1941)
Approved | 215 min | Adventure, Western
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Sammy Baugh, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Moore, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 53
ch0131117 (Sammy Baugh)
16. Texas Rangers (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott
Votes: 5,312 | Gross: $0.62M
Lincoln Rogers Dunnison (James Van Der Beek)
17. True Grit (1969)
G | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate
Votes: 39,675 | Gross: $31.13M
La Boeuf (Glen Campbell)
18. True Grit (2010)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin
Votes: 291,176 | Gross: $171.24M
La Boeuf (Matt Damon)
19. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Walker and his partner Trivette are Texas Rangers. They make it their business to battle crime in Dallas and all around the Great State of Texas.
Stars: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham
Votes: 14,208
Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris)
20. Trackdown (1957–1959)
30 min | Western
Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman travels the Old West tracking down assorted killers, bank robbers, horse thieves and other evildoers.
Stars: Robert Culp, Norman Leavitt, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds
Votes: 212
Hoby Gilman (Robert Culp)
21. Laredo (1965–1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Rustlers, bank robbers, and their own wild schemes: a band of Texas Rangers keeps getting in and out of trouble, under the jaundiced eye of Captain Parmalee.
Stars: Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith, Philip Carey
Votes: 493
Reese Bennett (Neville Brand)
22. The Miracle Rider (1935)
Approved | 306 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Texas Ranger tries to stop takeover of Indian lands.
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Tom Mix, Charles Middleton, Joan Gale, Robert Frazer
Votes: 119 | Gross: $1.00M
Tom Morgan (Tom Mix)
23. Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson
Votes: 145
Jim Kingston aka Pecos Kid (John Howard)
24. Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
PG | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After helping the local police with some horse thieves, a Texas Ranger aims at a drug lord with arms trade as well. They're interested in the same woman and they're both into martial arts.
Director: Steve Carver | Stars: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy
Votes: 10,047 | Gross: $12.23M
J.J. McQuade (Chuck Norris)
25. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Western
The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.
Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark
Votes: 1,690 | Gross: $12.62M
The Lone Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury)
26. Borderland (1937)
Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Mystery, Western
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, ... See full summary »
Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 150
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd)
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