Jack Elam
Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel. Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role. In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight. He appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike, and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.153 |
| Birthday | 1920-11-13 |
| Place of Birth | Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA |
| Also Known As | William Scott Elam, William Scott "Jack" Elam, جک ایلام, |
1961
Pocketful of Miracles
7.3/172
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
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Pocketful of Miracles
1952
High Noon
7.7/1461
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train....
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High Noon
1968
Firecreek
6.4/69
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
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Firecreek
1966
The Night of the Grizzly
5.6/27
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces oppos...
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The Night of the Grizzly
1952
Finders Keepers
0/0
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
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Finders Keepers
1952
Kansas City Confidential
7.1/135
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
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Kansas City Confidential
1961
The Comancheros
6.7/197
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of rene...
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The Comancheros
1981
The Cannonball Run
6.147/638
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to prote...
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The Cannonball Run
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7.035/344
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1969
Support Your Local Sheriff!
7/180
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1979
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
6.4/67
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy du...
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1956
Pardners
6.7/57
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Sli...
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Pardners
1976
Hawmps!
4.3/3
In old-west Texas, the cavalry's horses can't take the heat. So the military sends them camels instead, and assigns one man to convince the unit that...
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Hawmps!
1991
Suburban Commando
4.652/184
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth...
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Suburban Commando
1971
Hannie Caulder
6.2/115
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped...
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Hannie Caulder
1984
Cannonball Run II
5.4/324
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheel...
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Cannonball Run II
1957
Night Passage
6.4/72
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wand...
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Night Passage
1968
Never a Dull Moment
6.2/16
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss...
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Never a Dull Moment
1970
Rio Lobo
6.434/264
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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Rio Lobo
1953
Count the Hours!
5.5/11
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
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Count the Hours!
1978
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
6/29
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1952
Rancho Notorious
6.5/106
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from...
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Rancho Notorious
1957
Baby Face Nelson
5.8/27
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
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Baby Face Nelson
1955
Moonfleet
6.4/107
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien...
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Moonfleet
1967
The Way West
6/91
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock...
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The Way West
1955
Artists and Models
6.7/121
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he s...
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Artists and Models
1951
Rawhide
6.7/55
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
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Rawhide
1950
The Sundowners
5.4/11
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
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The Sundowners
1976
Creature from Black Lake
5.1/21
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
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Creature from Black Lake
1966
The Rare Breed
6/70
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle i...
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The Rare Breed
1953
Ride, Vaquero!
5.9/14
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
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Ride, Vaquero!
1952
The Ring
4.7/8
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
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The Ring
1961
The Last Sunset
6.8/86
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling coul...
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The Last Sunset
1978
The Norseman
3.25/16
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.
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The Norseman
1963
4 for Texas
5.1/57
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000...
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4 for Texas
1955
Kiss Me Deadly
7.2/377
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug...
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Kiss Me Deadly
1970
Dirty Dingus Magee
4.7/12
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...
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Dirty Dingus Magee
1954
The Far Country
6.894/155
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 fo...
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The Far Country
1955
The Man from Laramie
7.167/234
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillin...
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The Man from Laramie
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.542/83
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
0/0
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1957
Dragoon Wells Massacre
6.9/9
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.
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Dragoon Wells Massacre
1958
The Gun Runners
6/18
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled i...
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The Gun Runners
1951
Bird of Paradise
5.7/6
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. There, Andre becomes attracted to the native life and...
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Bird of Paradise
1987
Hawken's Breed
3.5/11
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving...
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Hawken's Breed
1969
The Over the Hill Gang
5.6/10
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
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The Over the Hill Gang
1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
5.4/15
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive i...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1974
Sidekicks
6/1
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the...
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Sidekicks
1955
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
4.9/10
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1956
Thunder Over Arizona
6/2
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in ba...
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Thunder Over Arizona
1957
Lure of the Swamp
6.5/2
Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou.
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Lure of the Swamp
1959
Edge of Eternity
6.611/27
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the...
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Edge of Eternity
1982
Jinxed!
4.6/22
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold ha...
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Jinxed!
1981
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
4.5/7
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1950
High Lonesome
5.1/8
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
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High Lonesome
1960
The Girl in Lovers Lane
2.8/16
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
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The Girl in Lovers Lane
1967
The Last Challenge
6.3/25
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
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The Last Challenge
1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
5.2/5
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1971
The Last Rebel
2/3
Set in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of two Confederate men and a black man who they rescu...
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The Last Rebel
1988
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
3/2
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1953
Gun Belt
6.3/7
Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying t...
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Gun Belt
1968
Sartana Does Not Forgive
6.1/7
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.
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Sartana Does Not Forgive
1955
Wichita
6.3/52
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect...
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Wichita
1988
Once Upon a Texas Train
5.4/14
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry...
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Once Upon a Texas Train
1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
6.3/3
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1990
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
5.2/8
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.
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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1950
One Way Street
5.1/25
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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One Way Street
1979
The Villain
5.7/145
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Simpson wants the money and hires notoriou...
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The Villain
1954
Princess of the Nile
7.1/9
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagda...
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Princess of the Nile
1955
Man Without a Star
6.467/107
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
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Man Without a Star
1983
Sacred Ground
6/5
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own hom...
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Sacred Ground
1992
Shadow Force
0/0
Policemen by Day - Assassins at Night. A story all too familiar yet amazing to see. Follow the daily lives of corrupt policemen as they make a fortune...
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Shadow Force
1953
Appointment in Honduras
5.7/9
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying mo...
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Appointment in Honduras
1990
Big Bad John
4/2
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
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Big Bad John
1976
The Winds of Autumn
5.8/4
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
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The Winds of Autumn
1974
A Knife for the Ladies
4.9/18
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than T...
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A Knife for the Ladies
1952
Lure of the Wilderness
6/11
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates t...
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Lure of the Wilderness
1960
The Slowest Gun in the West
2/1
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
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The Slowest Gun in the West
1972
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
0/0
Formerly lost western starring Jack Elam
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The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1950
Key to the City
6.1/8
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is pro...
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Key to the City
1986
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
6.8/2
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
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Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
The Aurora Encounter
4.3/3
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose presence divides the community.
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The Aurora Encounter
1973
The Red Pony
0/0
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
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The Red Pony
1952
My Man and I
6.8/5
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...
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My Man and I
1978
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
0/0
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up...
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Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1981
Skyward Christmas
0/0
In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.
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Skyward Christmas
1993
Uninvited
4.6/5
A fortune in gold lures 8 misfits to an Indian burial ground, resulting in murder.
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Uninvited
1952
The Battle at Apache Pass
6.3/16
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically am...
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The Battle at Apache Pass
1969
Ride a Northbound Horse
0/0
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is plotting to get the stallion away from the innocent...
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Ride a Northbound Horse
1956
Jubal
6.802/81
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly make...
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Jubal
1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7.2/413
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1953
The Moonlighter
5.7/10
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't...
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The Moonlighter
1955
The Silent Partner
6/1
When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not re...
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The Silent Partner
1951
The Bushwhackers
5.1/8
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that ranch...
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The Bushwhackers
1977
Grayeagle
5.6/15
A young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontier man John Colter who goes on an epic search for h...
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Grayeagle
1954
Jubilee Trail
4.8/8
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with chi...
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Jubilee Trail
1954
Vera Cruz
6.624/238
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane mee...
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Vera Cruz
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
1987
I Am Not a Freak
5/1
This film is a fascinating look at some people afflicted with congenital deformities of an extreme nature. Their ability to live with their aberration...
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I Am Not a Freak
1952
Montana Territory
0/0
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a st...
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Montana Territory
1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
5.6/26
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
Ride Clear of Diablo
5.8/30
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
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Ride Clear of Diablo
1983
Lost
4.8/6
A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.
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Lost
1993
Bonanza: The Return
6.519/390
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
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Bonanza: The Return
1995
Bonanza: Under Attack
6.7/8
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the Ponderosa...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
1974
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
0/0
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.
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1984
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
6/2
Scrooge is visited by a girl with a snow globe—which shows him people like Mike Love and Three Dog Night singing Christmas carols—to teach the crotche...
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Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1970
The Wild Country
6/6
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 18...
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The Wild Country
1976
Pony Express Rider
5/3
A young Texas Man who saw his father get killed by a group of bandits, decides years later to go to work for the Pony Express. But he is not just work...
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Pony Express Rider
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
5.8/17
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to...
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
1949
Wild Weed
4.8/13
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
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Wild Weed
1975
Huckleberry Finn
6/5
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
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Huckleberry Finn
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
8.3/4456
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the...
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Once Upon a Time in the West
1955
Kismet
5/13
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along...
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Kismet
1981
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
3/2
In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a floundering business, and the magical gold watch w...
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1971
Cat Ballou
0/0
A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from outlaws and build a school for local children.
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Cat Ballou
1976
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
0/0
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced t...
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1970
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
0/0
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking t...
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Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1960
Miss Jenny
0/0
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