Movies Like Phantom Trails

If you liked Phantom Trails (1955), a western movie directed by Frank McDonald and Wesley Barry, 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
The Plainsman (1936)
★ 6.5/10Also western
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
2
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
★ 6.7/10Also western
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
3
Ramrod (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also western
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…
4
The Rare Breed (1966)
★ 6.2/10Also western
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their…
5
True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10Also western
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…
6
Gunless (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also western
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
7
Spirit Untamed (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also western
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
8
Man Without a Star (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also western
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
9
The Last Sunset (1961)
★ 6.8/10Also western
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
10
North to Alaska (1960)
★ 6.5/10Also western
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally…
11
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
★ 6/10Also western
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
12
Rango (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also western
When 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…
13
Go West (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also western
A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.
14
El Dorado (1966)
★ 7.4/10Also western
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their…
15
Return of the Gunfighter (1967)
★ 6.1/10Also western
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
16
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also western
A 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…
17
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…
18
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
★ 7/10Also western
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free the tiny town of Silver City from the clutches of the dastardly…
19
The Westerner (1940)
★ 7.1/10Also western
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the…
20
Destry Rides Again (1939)
★ 7.2/10Also western
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the…