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The Gun And The Pulpit (1974)
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The Gun And The Pulpit (1974)
Original name: The Gun and the Pulpit
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: In the days of the "Wild West", a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
Plot: swing, wild west, cowboy, murder, gunfight, alcohol abuse, bible, ranch, corruption, sheriff, funeral, impersonation, widow, corpse, gunfighter, preacher, hanging, tobacco, frontier town, burial, shootout, fugitive, pursuit, old west, runaway ...

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Most similar movies to The Gun And The Pulpit

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, spaghetti western and suspenseful films with plots about gunfight, shootout, cowboy, street shootout, saloon, outlaw and horse mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Gun And The Pulpit: Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964), Cemetery Without Crosses (1969), The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Hell to Pay (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film
Plot: gang of outlaws, violence, horse, pistol, small town, outlaw, cowboy, old west, gunfighter, nun, street fight, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, wild
Plot: rape, hanging, courage, cowboy, native american, shootout, gunfight, murder, kidnapping, evil landowner, ghost town, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer then horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, crying
Plot: coming of age, cattle, shootout, cowboy, wild west, boy, team, friends, tough heroes, boss and employee, follow your dream, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
Place: colorado, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, justice, gambling, brutality, redemption, shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Hell to Pay (2005)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds-one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women-in a small mining town torn apart by civil ...
Style: hood
Plot: shootout, soldier, marauder, church, cowboy, outlaw, silver mine, gunslinger, sheriff, frontier town, bartender, grave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, billy the kid, villain played by lead actor, sheriff, destiny, gunfight, outlaw, gunslinger, desert, van, violence, on the run ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 4.7
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Hickok (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Legendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the test
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, serious
Plot: civil war veteran, love interest, battles, murder, gunfight, cowboy, criminal, civil war, cannon, shootout, wild west, female nudity ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 7.1
 13K
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for ...
Style: intense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, betrayal, vengeance, greed, bank robbery, stolen gold, going straight, haunted by the past, criminal's revenge, on the run, obsessive quest, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1961, 60s, 20th century, 1880s
Place: california, monterey california, mexico, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
Plot: gang of outlaws, frontier town, wild west, shootout, showdown, small western town, cowboy, bank robbery, fight, gunslinger, old west, cowboys and outlaws ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: sartana, cowboy, gunfighter, wild west, loot, shootout, pistol, ransom, violence, fistfight, scorpion, outlaw gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Six Black Horses (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill ...
Plot: lonely, killer, ranch, stranded in the desert, ambush, cowboy, apache indian, handgun, native american tribe, saving a life, native american attack, skinny dipping ...
Time: year 1962
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Return of Josey Wales (1980)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Legend has it-he lives. In this Western drama, some friends of gunfighter Josey Wales (Michael Parks, who also directed) are killed South of the border, so he heads to Mexico to confront a crooked local chief of police and get a good buddy out of ...
Plot: cowboy, native american, wild west, war veteran, war hero, shootout, friend, outlaw, anti hero, one man army, gang of outlaws, old west ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, woman with a gun, indians, shootout, pistol, violence, murder, horse, highwayman, fast draw, showdown, outlaw ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Long Ride Home (2003)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, lone wolves, heroes, murder, chases and races, partner, old west, sheriff, countryside, brother brother relationship, prisoner, single mother ...
Time: 19th century
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Macho Callahan (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his ...
Style: action adventure, independent film, freeze frame
Audience: manly
Plot: civil war, rape, outlaw, gunfighter, gunfight, u.s. civil war, deserter, american civil war, desertion, female nudity, revenge, military prison ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, new mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Law of the Lawless (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Plot: judge, hanging, gunfight, fistfight, courtroom, murder, brother, revenge, dancehall girl, widow, sheriff, trial ...
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: pistol, horse, machine gun, violence, wrongful imprisonment, small western town, cowboy, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, indian chief, old west ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: saloon owner, marshal, interracial, lonely, small town, showdown, pistol duel, gunfight, social relations, self defense, lone wolves, heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Billy the Kid (1989)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
Plot: billy the kid, gunfight, biopic, realism, murder, violence, escape, sheriff, horse, chase, pistol, outlaw ...
Place: new mexico, arizona, santa fe new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Desperado (1987)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Plot: shootout, corruption, prostitute, horse, vigilante, lynching, farmer, land grab, cattle, sheriff, marshal, street shootout ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad ...
Plot: vengeance, shootout, wild west, showdown, fast draw, cowboys and outlaws, pistol, revenge, horse, cowboy, gunfight, revenge plot ...
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57%
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Conagher (1991)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: wild west, old west, homestead, civil war, cowboy, gang, love and romance, heroes, single parent, danger, tough heroes, family relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Gunpoint (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.
Plot: cowboy, shootout, lonely, squad, small western town, western hero, showdown, woman, wild west, horse riding, horse, pistol ...
Time: year 1966
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical marshal who abuses his power.
Plot: crooked sheriff, army, intimidation, shootout, showdown, courage, arrogance, villain, bounty hunter, abuse of power, doctor, train ...
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54%
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Rio Diablo (1993)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to ...
Style: tragic ending, surprise ending
Plot: bounty hunter, cowboy, wild west, shootout, showdown, cowboys and outlaws, old west, rattlesnake, duel, outlaw, main character dies, buddy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small western town our hero Durango (Tab Hunter) delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: gunfight, family relations, shootout, pistol, vengeance, violence, revenge, villain, sheriff, hanging, street shootout, gun ...
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53%
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High Noon (2000)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life. Just as they are about to leave, word comes that a vicious ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, tension
Plot: one against many, last will and testament, ex convict, revenge, one man army, sheriff, outlaw, courage, small town, showdown, cowardice, train station ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Gunfighters (1987)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tv series pilot
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ranch, outlaw, violent content, misfit, heroes, vengeance, blind ambition, lone wolves, rivalry, society, vigilantism, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, wyoming, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
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Joe Kidd (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, bounty hunter, anti hero, hostage, train, revolutionary, shootout, bandit, manhunt, landowner, civil war, revenge ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.3
 64K
Pale Rider (1985)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, courage, murder, greed, revenge, one against many, teenage girl, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, one man army, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1985, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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