Movies Like The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin is a 1967 action, comedy, drama, family, western film from James Neilson with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Sisters Brothers.

Action Comedy Drama Family Western

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

8.0

MagicScore

The Sisters Brothers

2018

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

6.8

MagicScore

Goin' South

1978

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

5.8

MagicScore

The Call of the Wild

2020

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

7.5

MagicScore

Redeeming Love

2022

A retelling of the biblical book of Hosea set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush of 1850.

7.9

MagicScore

A High Wind in Jamaica

1965

In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.

6.3

MagicScore

The Far Country

1954

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.

6.9

MagicScore

River of No Return

1954

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

6.7

MagicScore

The Dead and the Damned

2011

A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.

2.9

MagicScore

#10

Airport

1970

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

The Bostonians

1984

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

5.5

MagicScore

#12

The Badlanders

1958

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

Spenser Confidential

2020

Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

Mystic River

2003

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

7.7

MagicScore

#15

The Social Network

2010

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

7.4

MagicScore

#16

Gone Baby Gone

2007

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

7.3

MagicScore

#17

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

1973

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

The Town

2010

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Fear Strikes Out

1957

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Little Children

2006

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

7.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin?

The top films similar to The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin by MovieMagicScore are The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (8.0), The Sisters Brothers (6.8), Goin' South (5.8). Each shares action/comedy/drama/family/western themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin worth watching?

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 41 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin?

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) is a action, comedy, drama, family, western film directed by James Neilson, starring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden.

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About movies like The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

This ranked list pairs The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967), a action and comedy and drama and family and western film from James Neilson, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Roddy McDowall take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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