Rodeo
Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Ride 'Em Cowboy | 1942 | Comedy | Abbott and Costello rescue kidnapped rodeo rider Bronco Bob. |
Rodeo King and the Senorita | 1951 | Western | Rex Allen joins a rodeo and tries to solve a murder. |
The Lusty Men | 1952 | Drama | Injured by a bull, a rodeo veteran (Robert Mitchum) quits, then makes an ill-fated comeback. |
Arena | 1953 | Drama | Now a rodeo clown, a washed-up rider risks his life for one last try. |
Born Reckless | 1958 | Drama | A trick rider (Mamie van Doren) tries to lasso a young cowboy. |
The Rounders | 1965 | Comedy | Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda wager nobody in rodeo can ride their horse. |
Stay Away, Joe | 1968 | Musical | Cowboys compete to stay aboard Elvis Presley's prize bull. |
Junior Bonner | 1972 | Western | Steve McQueen as a rodeo pro with a few family issues. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. |
J. W. Coop | 1972 | Western | A just-out-of-jail bronco buster (Cliff Robertson) resumes his career. |
When the Legends Die | 1972 | Western | Alcoholic cowboy Richard Widmark mentors a Ute Indian to compete in rodeo. |
The Electric Horseman | 1979 | Romance | TV reporter pursues rodeo cowboy (Robert Redford) who steals a valuable horse. |
Stir Crazy | 1980 | Comedy | A prison warden gets innocent inmates (Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor) involved in a rodeo. |
Rodeo Girl | 1980 | Drama | Rider's wife Katharine Ross gives rodeo competition a try herself. |
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | 1991 | Drama | Rodeo rider (Scott Glenn) returns home after a long absence. |
Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story | 1993 | Documentary | Behind the scenes look at a successful bronco buster. |
8 Seconds | 1994 | Drama | Biographical film on the career of Lane Frost, with Luke Perry starring as the doomed bull rider. |
The Cowboy Way | 1994 | Comedy | Cowpokes Kiefer Sutherland and Woody Harrelson take a trip to New York. |
Ruby Jean and Joe | 1996 | Drama | A female hitchhiker befriends former rodeo rider Tom Selleck. |
Everything That Rises | 1998 | Drama | Dennis Quaid directs and stars in TV film about a Texas cowboy. |
Cowboy Up | 2001 | Romance | Bull rider Kiefer Sutherland falls for barrel racer Daryl Hannah. |
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