Classic Heroines of Golden Age Hollywood
A list of movies featuring strong courageous heroines prior to 1970.
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- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsVirginia HustonRobert RockwellBarbra FullerJoyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department. When her friend Ruby gets involved with petty crook Max Taylor, she refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed training required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner Harvey Gates clean up a Skid-Row bar-girl scheme. Then she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang run by Richard Cott, and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsBarbara StanwyckBarry SullivanScott BradyA Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsBarbara StanwyckRonald ReaganGene EvansSierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsJohnny Mack BrownFuzzy KnightNell O'DayA young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsJean ArthurWilliam HoldenWarren WilliamIn Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
- DirectorAlan JamesStarsKen MaynardHoot GibsonJack La RueUS government agents Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, aka "The Trail Blazers", make a deal with captured outlaw Duke Dillon to catch crooked Indian agent John Hampton, who has been using his authority to steal from the local tribe. Dillon double-crosses the inept and lethargic heroes, making it difficult for them to carry out their mission.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsRobert TaylorDenise DarcelHope EmersonA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerSusan HaywardHugh MarloweA stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
- StarsRoy RogersDale EvansTriggerThe Double R Ranch featured "The King of the Cowboys" Roy, his "Smartest Horse in the Movies" Trigger, "Queen of the West" Dale, her horse Buttermilk, their dog Bullet, and even Pat's jeep, Nellybelle.
- StarsGail DavisBrad JohnsonJimmy HawkinsA fictionalized account of the life of legendary Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
- StarsJim DavisMary CastleKristine MillerRailroad detective Matt Clark roams the west, tracking down outlaws and bandits who are preying on the railroad.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsMichael RenniePatricia NealHugh MarloweAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
- CreatorA.I. BezzeridesLouis F. EdelmanStarsRichard LongPeter BreckLee MajorsThe Wild West adventures of the Barkley family in California's San Joaquin Valley.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsScott BradyAudrey TotterForrest TuckerA white woman who inherits land in New Mexico makes an alliance with the local Navajos against greedy land grabbers and crooked white traders.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJoan LeslieJames CraigJack OakieWhen his father dies, rodeo star Dan Bennett returns to his ranch but hires on as a ranch hand. A horse known as the White Outlaw is the leader of a herd of wild horses and Dan's obsession now is to capture and tame that horse. Foreman Christine Johnson learns of his true identity and that he plans to sell the ranch after taming the horse. Her objective now becomes to keep him from selling and she starts by releasing the White Outlaw he has just captured.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJoan LeslieForrest TuckerArthur FranzDuring the Korean War, a United States Air Force nurse with the Medical Air Evacuation Unit flies on C-47 transport aircraft based in Japan where she ferries servicemen wounded in combat.
- DirectorCarl K. HittlemanStarsPatricia MedinaRichard DenningGerald MohrA tough beautiful, woman is attracted to a new young doctor in town, but has to contend with a reckless gunslinger who wants her at any cost.
- DirectorRobert Emmett TanseyStarsTom KeeneBetty MilesFrank YaconelliJay Lynch, the half-brother of rancher Jim Dawson, schemes with Dawson's crooked lawyer, Jasper Raines, to take over Dawson's ranch. Lynch has his henchmen, "Bronco" West and "Drifter" Smith kill Dawson, but Dawson is only wounded and found and hidden away by cattle-association detectives Tom Sterling and his sidekick, Lopez Mendoza. Lynch then shows up at the Dawson ranch with a forged will, leaving him the ranch, with intent to evict Dawson's daughters, Betty and Sugar, but Sterling and Mendoza intervene. Lynch then hires gunman "Pecos" Dean to ambush and kill Sterling but Dean turns out to be a crook that has reformed. Sterling, aided by Judge Little and Sheriff Hays and the return of the supposedly-dead man, puts an end to Lynch's plan.
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsRandolph ScottBarbara BrittonDorothy HartGunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJohn IrelandBeverly GarlandAllison HayesAfter her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place temporarily as Marshal of a small Western town.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsRoy RogersTriggerJane FrazeeA gang, headed by evil Stephanie Bachelor, is slaughtering game out of season. Roy finds the freezer where the meat is kept, but baddie Roy Barcroft finds him there. A famous fight takes place in the freezer. Roy, of course, wins it.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsAudie MurphyKathryn GrantHope EmersonUnion Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a ragtag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsDolores MichaelsPatricia OwensNeville BrandA small group of Red Cross doctors and nurses are held captive by Chinese guerrillas in Vietnam.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsRandolph ScottDorothy MaloneForrest TuckerA mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.