OLD TUCSON MOVIES
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FILMED AT OLD TUCSON STUDIOS
Own a piece of western history. Old Tucson Studios (nicknamed Hollywood in the Desert) has a rich history of being home to many of your favorite westerns and western stars. Listed below are more than 40 of the most popular Old Tucson Movies filmed in whole or in part at Old Tucson Studios. Pick up your favorite western classic film or movie poster, sit back and enjoy!
The movies are listed in chronological order with the exception of separate categories for John “The Duke” Wayne and television series. Order directly from Amazon and receive their competitive pricing, fast shipping, and reliable customer service.
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JOHN WAYNE AT OLD TUCSON STUDIOS
1959 RIO BRAVO
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On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) and two deputies: a recovering drunkard (Dean Martin) and a crippled codger (Walter Brennan). Also in their ragtag ranks are a trigger-happy youth (Ricky Nelson) and a woman (Angie Dickinson) with a past – and her
eye on Chance.
1963 MCLINTOCK
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John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara.
An all-out battle of the sexes takes place when a powerful cattle baron’s wife returns to town after a two-year absence. G.W.’s (John Wayne) former Indian foes have become his pals, he enjoys nothing so much as playing chess with his Jewish merchant buddy (Jack Kruschen), and he’s tolerant–as his fellow landowners are not–of the homesteaders crowding into
the territory.
1966 EL DORADO
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Cole Thornton (John Wayne), a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara (Robert Mitchum). Together with an old Indian fighter (Arthur Hunnicutt) and a gambler (James Caan), they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
1970 RIO LOBO
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Bent on unearthing the cynical traitor who sold information to the enemy and caused the death of a dear brother-in-arms, the battle-tested former Union cavalry officer, Colonel Cord McNally (John Wayne), teams up with a pair of ex-Confederates (Jorge Rivero, Christopher Mitchum) after the Civil War. Can McNally avenge his bosom buddy and clean up Rio Lobo?
CLASSIC WESTERNS 1940 TO 1960
1940 ARIZONA
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FIRST MOVIE FILMED
AT OLD TUCSON
Screen legends Jean Arthur (The Plainsman) and William Holden (The Wild Bunch) star in the epic saga of Phoebe Titus (Arthur), a whip-carrying, rifle-toting hellion who single-handedly transforms a dirt-poor army outpost into Tucson, Arizona, the pride of the American West.
1950 WINCHESTER 73
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It’s the legendary James Stewart at his leading-man finest in this timeless western. Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father’s murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester ’73, as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters, including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea), an immoral gunrunner (John McIntire), a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam’s own murderous brother (Stephen McNally).
1951 THE LAST OUTPOST
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STARRING RONALD REAGAN
Confederate officer Vance Britten (Ronald Reagan) and his Texas unit are sent to the Arizona territory to halt the supply if gold to the Union army, while Vance’s brother, Jeb Britten (Bruce Bennett), is the Union cavalry officer charged with seeing that the shipment get through.
1955 STRANGE LADY IN TOWN
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It doesn’t take Boston physician Julia Garth (Greer Garson) long to experience the genuine West after she arrives in dusty Santa Fe to set up practice. Her first patient is brought in by a youth folks call Billy the Kid. How Julia wins acceptance in what most people then considered man’s work shapes the in-color sagebrush tale Strange Lady in Town.
1955 10 WANTED MEN
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This rough-and-tumble Western
has cattleman Randolph Scott’s dreams of law, order , and decency smashed by the ambitions of his gunslinging rival, Richard Boone. Boone doesn’t get away with it, and lonely widow Jocelyn Brando falls for the good guy.
1955 THE VIOLENT MEN
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An ex-Confederate Army officer, John Parrish (Glenn Ford), plans to sell his ranch and move east with his fiancé, but the low price offered by Lee Wilkenson (Edward G. Robinson), and the outfit’s bullyboy tactics make him think again. When one of his ranch hands is murdered, he decides to stay and fight. Meanwhile, the owner’s wife, Martha (BarbaraStanwyck), has been carrying on with her husband’s brother.
1956 BACKLASH
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Hard-bitten wanderer Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) rides the range seeking to avenge his father’s death. Along the way he meets frontier widow Karyl Orton (Donna Reed), who is being hunted by gunslinger Johnny Cool (William Campbell). The unlikely duo endures various hardships as Slater comes to suspect his father died from something more sinister than an apparent Apache ambush.
1956 WALK THE PROUD LAND
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Appointed as an Indian agent in 1874 by the Department of the Interior at the age of twenty-three John Clum (Audie Murphy) is sent to an Apache reservation in San Carlos, Arizona to take over the army’s position. After trying to empower and teach self-governing principles to the Apaches, he is faced with opposition not only from some of the Indians but also from the leader in charge of the Army troops.
1957 3:10 TO YUMA
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Van Heflin needs $200 to build a well, then learns he can obtain the money as a reward for delivering Glenn Ford, a notorious outlaw now in the hands of the law, to the state prison in Yuma, Arizona. Though this will put Heflin in great personal danger, the peaceful man accepts the assignment, knowing what the money will mean to his family.
1957 ARIZONA RAIDERS
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For years, Clint Stewart (Audie Murphy) rode with the legendary Quantrill’s Raiders – Confederate veterans who have become the most feared outlaw gang ever to ride the West. Captured after a shootout and sent to a chain gang, Clint is given a choice: Rot in jail or join the Arizona Raiders under Captain Andrews (Buster Crabbe) and help hunt down the rest of his old gang.
1957 GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL
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After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in a feud with the Clantons, a local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), a terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.
1957 THE GUNS OF FORT PETTICOAT
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Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt (Audie Murphy), trains a rag tag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.
1958 BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE
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A man ( Randolph Scott) riding through the town of Agry is robbed and framed for murder. Once cleared of the charge, he aims to get revenge.
1958 BADLANDERS
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Romance and betrayal follow two gold robbers who seek revenge against their double-crossing partner in this acclaimed western remake of the crime thriller classic, “The Asphalt Jungle.” Alan Ladd and Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine star as the
vengeful duo. With Oscar-nominee Katy Jurado.
CLASSIC WESTERNS 1961 TO 1995
1961 THE DEADLY COMPANIONS
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Yellowleg (Brian Keith) escorts Kit Tilden (Maureen O’Hara) through hostile Apache territory to bury her son, who he accidentally shot while trying to stop a robbery. A couple of shady characters, Turk (Chill Wills) and Billy Keplinger (Steve Cochran), are recruited to ride along for reasons only Yellowleg knows. Director Sam Peckinpah’s first feature, The Deadly Companions (1961) was shot in 21 days at Old Tucson Studios.
1967 HOMBRE
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John Russell, (Paul Newman) disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers (Barbara Rush, Fredric March) because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws. (Richard Boone, Frank Silvera) As the passengers try to evade the bandits they reveal their true nature in a life threatening situation.
1969 HEAVEN WITH A GUN
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A pistol-packing parson is torn between heaven and hell in this gritty Western adventure starring Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey and David Carradine. While war rages between the local cattlemen and sheepherders, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian (Ford) rides into town determined to start his own church. When his efforts to stop the bloodshed lead to rape, arson and murder, Killian must decide whether to bring about peace through faith alone or his skills with a gun.
1969 YOUNG BILLY YOUNG
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Robert Mitchum is an aging but tough-as-nails lawman that meets up with Young Billy Young (Robert Walker), a fast-draw outlaw on the run and a sassy saloon girls Lily. (Angie Dickenson). Discovering that they have a common enemy, the two men join forces. But it’s a partnership that explodes when the lawmen discover a secret that initiates a barroom brawl and ends in a six-gun shoot-out.
1970 DIRTY DINGUS MAGEE
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Dingus Magee (Frank Sinatra) wants to flag a ride. “Hold up!” he yells to a rolling stagecoach. “It’s a holdup!” shouts the coach driver’s panicked sidekick, who tosses a jewel-packed strongbox over the side. Magee, who began his criminal escapades with a $10 price on his head, is suddenly wanted for much, much more. George Kennedy is the addled sheriff on his trail. The ways of the West are outrageously unsaddled in this rowdy comedy.
1970 MONTE WALSH
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Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are middle-aged cowboys whose wandering ways are getting hemmed in by corporations, fences, and their own aging muscles. Not only is the boss man (Jim Davis) laying off his longtime ranch hands, he doesn’t even own the ranch himself anymore. A movie about the ending of the old west.
1972 JOE KIDD
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Joe Kidd, (Clint Eastwood) finds himself in the middle of a range war in rough and rugged New Mexico. Following an armed uprising by local Mexican revolutionaries who claim they’ve been cheated out of their land, Kidd is hired to quell the rebellion by a wealthy land baron (Robert Duvall) with interests in the disputed territory. But Kidd’s and his employer’s interests are soon at odds when he falls for a beautiful Hispanic rebel
1972 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN
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Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman) was a saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in west Texas who called himself “The Only Law West of the Pecos”. He held court in his saloon and had a reputation as a hanging judge. An all-star cast includes Ava Gardner, Victoria Principal, Roddy McDowell, Jacqueline Bisset, Ned Beatty, and Anthony Perkins.
1975 POSSE
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“Posse” finds Kirk Douglas starring as Howard Nightingale, a United States marshal hunting down an outlaw to further his political career. Organizing a posse to catch infamous bank robber, Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), Nightingale ends up with the tables turned on him as the cunning criminal gets the upper hand and holds him hostage instead.
1976 THE LAST HARD MEN
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A group of convicts on a road gang escape from custody. One of the convicts is Zach Provo (James Coburn), sent to prison by former lawman Sam Burgade (Charlton Heston), who may also have killed Provo’s wife. Provo plans to kidnap Burgade’s daughter, hoping to prompt Burgade to strap on his guns and come after him so he can seek his revenge.
1980 TOM HORN
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Steve McQueen stars as a legendary American as wild and untamed as the Old West. He charged with Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan Hill. Became famous for capturing the legendary Apache chief Geronimo. And before his 44th birthday, was killed by the man who employed him to stop cattle rustlers in Wyoming–because he was too good, and too lethal, at his job. He was Tom Horn.
1986 STAGECOACH
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A surprisingly entertaining remake of John Waynes classic 1939 film. The story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man’s pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday. Starring Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings.
1986 THREE AMIGOS
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The Three Amigos are a silent screen comedy act whose act has seen better days. But when they find themselves in a small Mexican hamlet terrorized by bandits, the time has come for the Three Amigos to play their roles for real in this hilarious all-star comedy. Starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short.
1990 YOUNG GUNS II
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Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) and his associates are on their way to Mexico and pursued by federal agents. But when Billy, Doc (Kiefer Sutherland) and Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips) prove too difficult to track down, the frustrated authorities enlist an old friend of theirs, reformed outlaw Pat Garrett (William Petersen), to take down the elusive gunslinger.
1993 TOMBSTONE
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp (Curt Russell) moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers (Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton) there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer). A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the O.K. Corral.
CLASSIC WESTERNS 1995 TO 2020
1995 The Quick and the Dead
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The mysterious, one-named Ellen (Sharon Stone) arrives in the lawless town of Redemption looking for John Herod (Gene Hackman), the undisputed ruler of the town and the fastest gun around. Herod, along with 15 others, has entered the annual quick-draw contest. Russell Crowe co-stars as a former gunman turned priest, with Leonardo DiCaprio as The Kid who may or may not be Herod’s son.
1997 BUFFALO SOLDIERS
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Danny Glover stars in this historical epic of former slaves turned United States Army recruits. Nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” by the Plains Indians, these African-American troops also string miles of telegraph wire, escort settlers, cattle and railroad crews through the hostile West and patrol the wild United States-Mexican border in this moving drama that chronicles an untold, exciting part of United States history.
2017 CASSIDY RED
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A woman (Abby Eiland) returns to her hometown in the Wild West when her lover is killed by her scornful ex-fiancé, seeking bloodthirsty retribution. Torn between love, hate, loyalty, her path to seek vengence widens out of her control.
2018 THE LEGEND OF FIVE MILE CAVE
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A mysterious drifter (Adam Baldwin) bonds with a boy with tales of the West. A bond with the boy grows as the drifter recounts breathtaking stories of Shooter Green, a legendary gunslinger accused of Arizona’s biggest gold robbery. The truth is revealed, along with the secret of the drifter’s past when a lawman appears, hot on the trail of the stolen gold.
TV SERIES FILMED AT OLD TUCSON STUDIOS
1967 – 1972
HIGH CHAPARRAL
The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s. John establishes his cattle empire despite Indian hostility. He’s aided by brother Buck and son Billy Blue. When Blue’s mother was killed (first episode) John united his family with the powerful Montoyas by marrying their daughter Victoria.
1977 – 1979
HOW THE WEST
WAS WON
Mountain man Zeb, accustomed to the harsh realities of life on the frontier, his sister-in-law Kate, alone since the death of her husband, and Luke, a fugitive deserter from the Union Army struggle to survive in this dramatic series as big and wild as the land they are trying to tame.
1974 – 1983
LITTLE HOUSE ON
THE PRAIRIE
Little House on the Prairie was based on the best-selling books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that documented the extraordinary adventures of a young pioneer family’s struggle to build a new life for themselves on the lawless American frontier of the 1870s.
1979
THE SACKETTS
Based on the novels The Daybreakers (1960) and Sackett (1961) by Louis L’Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.
1989 – 1992
THE YOUNG RIDERS
Set in the early days of the Pony Express, the series tells the fictionalized story of a group of young riders for the Express in Sweetwater, Kansas, which just happens to include a couple of dudes who would one day go down in real-life history: “Buffalo Bill” Cody and “Wild Bill”.
1998 – 2000
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Seven men from the western United States band together and form the law in a town that, for better or for worse, needs their protection from the riffraff and lawlessness of the west.
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