Movies and TvShows featuring "mule-team" theme.

Rawhide is a 1951 western movie that tells the story of a group of people held hostage by a gang of thieves, with a newspaper reporter and a woman being assaulted. The plot revolves around their attempts to escape and seek help, while dealing with various dangers and obstacles. It is a classical western with elements of romance and suspense.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent film about an engineer who works to develop the desert wasteland through irrigation. The film explores a romantic triangle between the engineer, a land developer, and a settler woman. It also includes elements of a classical Western, with scenes of sandstorms, rattlesnakes, and a payroll robbery. The story follows the characters as they navigate through various challenges, including a panic, lynching, flood, evacuation, and dust storms. Along the way, the engineer becomes a dam builder and adopts an orphan. Based on a novel, the film showcases the struggles and triumphs of transforming the barren Colorado River region.

In 16th-century Spain, Miguel de Cervantes, a playwright and tax collector, is imprisoned and defends himself by acting out the story of Don Quixote. Through his delusion, he believes himself to be a knight-errant on a quest to rescue a damsel in distress.

In Fighting Caravans, a man and a woman posing as husband and wife join a wagon train heading to Oregon. Along the way, they encounter various challenges including Indian attacks, gun battles, and the harsh conditions of the frontier. As they navigate through these obstacles, their relationship deepens and they find themselves falling in love. This pre-Code Western film showcases the struggles and triumphs of settlers in the Rocky Mountains during the early days of the American frontier.

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.

Botched directions lead a struggling couple to a small Mexican town whose residents have a positive effect on the pair's faltering marriage.

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...

During the American Civil War, a Confederate soldier escapes from prison and seeks revenge against a Union officer who wronged him. He finds himself caught in a conflict with a gang of bushwhackers and must rely on his survival skills to stay alive.

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.