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Movies Like The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

If you liked The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), a western and comedy movie directed by Raoul Walsh, 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.

  1. 1Wild Rovers

    Wild Rovers (1971)

    ★ 6.1/10Also western

    Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a…

  2. 2Stagecoach

    Stagecoach (1966)

    ★ 6.1/10Also western

    A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor…

  3. 3Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western

    A 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.

  4. 4The Last Wagon

    The Last Wagon (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the…

  5. 5Boss Nigger

    Boss Nigger (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

  6. 6Flaming Star

    Flaming Star (1960)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.

  7. 7Barbarosa

    Barbarosa (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    Karl 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…

  8. 8The White Buffalo

    The White Buffalo (1977)

    ★ 6/10Also western

    In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns…

  9. 9The Magnificent Seven

    The Magnificent Seven (1960)

    ★ 7.5/10Also western

    An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

  10. 10Decision at Sundown

    Decision at Sundown (1957)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    A 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.

  11. 11In Old Oklahoma

    In Old Oklahoma (1943)

    ★ 6.2/10Also western

    Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

  12. 12Warlock

    Warlock (1959)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives…

  13. 13Buck and the Preacher

    Buck and the Preacher (1972)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

  14. 14Dodge City

    Dodge City (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

  15. 15The Comancheros

    The Comancheros (1961)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    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.

  16. 16The War Wagon

    The War Wagon (1967)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.

  17. 17The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and comedy

    Outlaw 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…

  18. 18The Cheyenne Social Club

    The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and comedy

    Cowboy 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.

  19. 19Bend of the River

    Bend of the River (1952)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

  20. 20Comanche Station

    Comanche Station (1960)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.

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