Movies Like Back in the Saddle
If you liked Back in the Saddle (1941), a western and comedy movie directed by Lew Landers, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
★ 6.4/10Also western and comedyCowboy John O'Hanlan is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He sets out to claim it, only to discover it's a brothel.
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
★ 6.5/10Also western and comedyOutlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice…
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Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and westernWhen the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s…
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Go West (1925)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and westernWith little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Barbarosa (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also westernKarl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and westernA con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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City Slickers (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and westernThree New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up! (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and westernThis time, the rivals team up to help a cowgirl and her brother save their homestead from a greedy land-grabber, and they’re going to need some help! Jerry’s three precocious nephews are all ready for action, and Tom…
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Way Out West (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and westernStan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and westernA roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon…
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also westernLegends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War…
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The Comancheros (1961)
★ 6.7/10Also westernTexas 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.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and westernAmos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets…
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and westernIn the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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Decision at Sundown (1957)
★ 6.4/10Also westernA man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
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Day of the Outlaw (1959)
★ 6.8/10Also westernBlaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder…
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also westernA young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When…
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Rango (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and westernWhen Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town…
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Purgatory (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also westernAn outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…
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Open Range (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also westernA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.