The Walking Hills is a 1949 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines.

One day in contemporary Mexicali, a poker game in the back room of a cantina includes horse breeder Jim Carey, cowboys Shep and Johnny, a prospector called Old Willy, a stranger in town named Frazee and a drifter, Chalk.

Conversation turns to a legendary wagon train carrying gold bars worth $5 million lost 100 years ago in the Walking Hills, a huge area of shifting dunes across the border in the United States.

A contemporary review of the film in Variety described it as having an "intriguing theme, good cast, and tight direction," adding that although the screenplay's "attempt to handle the cross-currents of greed for gold and a three-way romantic tangle is not fully successful [...] the main outlines of a sharp human conflict are made to emerge nonetheless," and noting that "Josh White adds importantly to the film with his renditions of a couple of blues numbers and folk ballads.

"[1] A modern review described it as "an entirely forgettable western that could (and should) have been so much better," and having a "smattering of compelling sequences and [a] raft of better-than-average performances.