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Luke Short
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Known For
Blood on the Moon · 1948Blood on the Moon
★ 6.21948
MovieWesternRomance
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
The Hangman · 1959The Hangman
★ 6.51959
MovieWestern
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
Vengeance Valley · 1951Vengeance Valley
★ 5.41951
MovieWestern
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
Ramrod · 1947Ramrod
★ 6.51947
MovieWestern
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
Ambush · 1950Ambush
★ 5.41950
MovieWestern
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Station West · 1948Station West
★ 6.41948
MovieWestern
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Ride the Man Down · 1952Ride the Man Down
★ 6.31952
MovieWestern
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
Coroner Creek · 1948Coroner Creek
★ 6.21948
MovieWestern
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.



