3 Godfathers 1948  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Three Godfathers
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Jane Darwell, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick, Guy Kibbee, Dorothy Ford, Charles Halton, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Fred Libby, Michael Dugan
Three outlaws, Robert Marmaduke Hightower, Pedro "Pete" Roca Fuente, and William Kearney "the Abilene Kid" (John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, and Harry Carey Jr.), become godfathers to an orphaned baby. When two of them die, the remaining guardian, Hightower, undergoes a spiritual change and cares for the baby.
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 Angels in the Outfield 1994  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: William Dear
Cast: Danny Glover, Brenda Fricker, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Johnson, Jay O. Sanders, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew McConaughey, Taylor Negron, Milton Davis Jr., Tony Longo, Neal McDonough, Stony Jackson, Adrien Brody
Eleven-year-old Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a foster child of Maggie (Brenda Fricker) who hears his irresponsible father (Dermot Mulroney) claim that the chances of reuniting his family are just as good as the last-place California Angels winning the pennant. Roger wants his family to get back together so that he can move out of his foster home and prays that the Angels will win the pennant. Roger's prayers are answered in the form of angel Al (Christopher Lloyd) who heads up a group of angels (appearing as glowing special effects) that arrive to help the team–much to the amazement of the Angels' manager George Knox (Danny Glover) and the long-suffering owner Hank Murphy (Ben Johnson).
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Bite the Bullet 1975   PG, 131 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Stewart, Dabney Coleman, Ian Bannen, Sally Kirkland, Robert Donner
A marathon horse race around 1900 draws in a number of contestants who vie for the large winning purse. Great scenery and story. 1 User Review
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Breakheart Pass 1976 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Tom Gries
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning, Roy Jenson, Ed Lauter, David Huddleston, Archie Moore, Boyd "Red" Morgan
Undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) puts an end to the exploits of murdering desperadoes. One highlight of this film is the great fight between our hero, Bronson, and Archie Moore.
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 The Chase 1991  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Casey Siemaszko, Ben Johnson, Ricki Lake, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Barry Corbin, Nada Despotovich, Robert Beltran, Gerry Bamman, Megan Follows, Sheila Kelly, Gailard Sartain, Jimmie F. Skaggs
Based on a true story, this made-for-TV tale concerns a bank robber (Casey Siemaszko) who kills a cop and takes an old man (Ben Johnson) hostage. The high-speed chase was filmed by a TV crew in a helicopter that contributed to the eventual capture.
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Cherry 2000 1987 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steve DeJarnatt
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Harry Carey Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Pamela Gidley, Michael C. Gwynne, Marshall Bell
A science fiction film about women androids who are used only for making love. When a man breaks his robot/sex toy, he is led through the desert by a flesh and blood soldier of fortune (Melanie Griffith) and encounters maniacal renegades.
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 Chisum 1970  G, 111 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot, Andrew Prine, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Lynda Day George, Pamela McMyler, Lloyd Battista, Robert Donner
King of the Pecos John Simpson Chisum (John Wayne) is the wealthiest cattleman in the New Mexico Territory in the 1870s. Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) arrives on the scene, challenges Chisum, and the cattle war begins.
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 Dillinger 1973 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: John Milius
Cast: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Geoffrey Lewis, John P. Ryan, Steve Kanaly, Roy Jenson, John Martino, Read Morgan, Frank McRae, David Dorr, Catherine Tambini
In the early 1930s, John Dillinger was on the FBI's "most wanted" list; his bank robberies had made him famous, but he is captured by "Big Jim" Wollard (Read Morgan) and sent to prison. He escapes from jail and rejoins the gang of hoods that now includes Pretty Boy Floyd (Steve Kanaly) and Baby Face Nelson (Richard Dreyfuss). They continue the bank robberies while FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson) is determined to put an end to their illegal activities. This story is seen through the eyes of Purvis who is behind the gunning down of Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
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 The Evening Star 1996 PG-13, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Harling
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson, Marion Ross, Mackenzie Astin, Jack Nicholson, Scott Wolf, George Newbern
This sequel to "Terms of Endearment" focuses on Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) 15 years after the death of her daughter, Emma. The story deals with her "care" for her three grandchildren, her love life, and relationships with those who surround her.
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The Getaway 1972 PG, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens, Richard Bright, Roy Jenson, Dub Taylor, Bo Hopkins, Jack Dodson, John Bryson, Bill Hart, Whitney Jones, Tom Runyon
Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) has been in prison for four years when his wife Carol (Ali McGraw) gets him a parole from dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson). The parole comes with the stipulation that Doc does one more robbery for Benyon. Doc joins up with Rudy (Al Lettieri) and Jackson (Bo Hopkins), and they perform the heist, but problems ensue when Rudy plots to keep all of the money. Now, Doc and Carol rush for the Mexican border with the money while Rudy follows closely behind. They encounter each other in El Paso where a shootout is a certainty.
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The Greatest 1977 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Muhammad Ali, John Marley, Robert Duvall, David Huddleston, Ben Johnson, James Earl Jones, Lloyd Haynes, Paul Winfield, Dina Merrill, Roger E. Mosley, Annazette Chase, Lucille Benson, Skip Homeier
This is the biography of boxer Muhammad Ali who plays himself–beginning as 18-year-old boxer Cassius Clay who wins a Gold medal at the Olympic Games. Later, he trains under Angelo Dundee (Ernest Borgnine) and wins the World Heavyweight title from Sonny Liston (Roger E. Mosley). Now, he converts to Islam, refuses to join the Army, and goes through a three-and-a-half year court battle before returning to the ring to retake the World Heavyweight title. Throughout the film, Muhammad Ali's actual fight sequences are inter-cut into the story.
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Hang 'Em High 1968 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Ted Post
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, James MacArthur, Arlene Golonka, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Ruth White, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw, Alan Hale Jr., James Westerfield, L.Q. Jones, Joseph Sirola
Rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is accosted by nine men, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley), and accused of stealing his neighbor's cattle and killing him. They hang Cooper and leave him for dead, but he is rescued by Deputy U.S. Marshal Bliss (Ben Johnson) and later cleared by Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle). Now a free man, Cooper wants revenge and takes the law into his own hands and sets off to administer his own form of justice on the men who tried to hang him.
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Junior Bonner 1972 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker, Barbara Leigh, Mary Murphy, Bill McKinney, Don "Red" Barry, Dub Taylor, Sandra Deel, Charles H. Gray, Matthew Peckinpah, Sundown Spencer, Rita Garrison
Rodeo performer Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen) has passed his prime and returns home to Prescott, Arizona, where he finds that his parents, Ace and Elvira (Robert Preston and Ida Lupino), are breaking up their marriage, and his brother Curley (Joe Don Baker) is striking it rich selling off parcels of the family's land. Trying to regain his self-esteem, Junior enters the town's Fourth of July rodeo and wins the bull-riding event. Now, Junior buys an airplane ticket with the winnings and heads to Australia for more rodeos.
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Kid Blue 1973 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Frawley
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Janice Rule, Lee Purcell, Ralph Waite, Clifton James, Howard Hesseman, M. Emmet Walsh
Kid Blue (Dennis Hopper) tries to adapt to living an honest life, but he cannot seem to make it. Set in the early 1900s in Texas.
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The Last Picture Show 1971 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Bill Thurman, Sam Bottoms, Noble Willingham, Joe Heathcock, Jessie Lee Fulton, Sharon Taggart
In the small town of Anarene, Texas, during the 1950s, high-school football players Sonny and Duane (Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges) are best friends. The boys hang out at the local pool hall owned by Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson) who also owns the town's old movie house. There isn't much going in their world. Both boys are enamored with their beautiful fellow student Jacy (Cybill Shepherd in her first film), and Duane begins dating her. As graduation approaches, Duane enlists to serve in the Korean War, and Sonny continues his fling with Coach Popper's (Bill Thurman) wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman). Now, Sam the Lion has died, his theater is closing, and the boys find their own changing lives paralleling those of the world around them. Oscars went to Johnson and Leachman for their supporting roles. There were also six other nominations, including Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Bridges), Supporting Actress (Ellen Burstyn for her role as Jacy's mother), and Director.
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Let's Get Harry 1986  R, 98 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Rescue
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Robert Duvall, Gary Busey, Mark Harmon, Glenn Frey, Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Rick Rossovich, Ben Johnson, Matt Clark, Gregory Sierra
A mercenary (Robert Duvall) is hired to help friends rescue Harry (Mark Harmon) from the jungles of South America. Duvall's performance keeps this from bombing out entirely. Director Rosenberg used the infamous pseudonym of "Alan Smithee" for this film, which meant he didn't want to be associated with it.
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Major Dundee 1965 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Brock Peters, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Michael Pate, Karl Swenson
Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) is a member of the Union Cavalry who, as a result of his mistakes at the Battle of Gettysburg, has been sent out West to be in charge of a Union prison in New Mexico. The Apache Indians, led by Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), have been raiding U.S. bases and kidnapping children, and Major Dundee decides to take on the job of capturing the raiders and rescuing the victims. But, he does not have enough men under his command, so he recruits Confederate prisoners–including his childhood friend Captain Benjamin Tyreen (Richard Harris)–and leads a motley group of men across the border into Mexico in pursuit of the marauding Apaches.
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 Mighty Joe Young 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Paul Guilfoyle, Nestor Paiva, Regis Toomey, James Flavin, Denis Green
When a giant ape (Mighty Joe Young) is brought from the jungle to the world of entertainment, adventures abound in this film that, more than slightly, resembles "King Kong."
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1991 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney, Gary Busey, Clarence Williams III, Dub Taylor, Clu Gulager
This is a contemporary Western in which an aging rodeo bull rider goes home to recover from a serious rodeo injury. In the process, he saves his father from a nursing home, falls in love, and decides to try one last ride on the bull that almost killed him.
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 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Marlon Brando
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Slim Pickens, Ben Johnson, Elisha Cook Jr., Rodolfo Acosta, Timothy Carey, Philip Ahn, Larry Duran, Sam Gilman, Miriam Colon, Ray Teal, John Dierkes
After Rio's (Marlon Brando) partner Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) deserts him during a bank robbery, Rio is caught by the sheriff and sent to prison. Five years later, after breaking out of prison, Rio sets out to track down Longworth and seek revenge. He finds Longworth and learns that he is now sheriff in a small town, is married to Maria (Katy Jurado), and has a stepdaughter Louisa (Pina Pellicer). As part of his plot, Rio seduces Louisa. Then, he falls in love with her but continues his criminal life, and complications ensue.
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 The Outlaw 1943 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hughes
Cast: Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia, Joe Sawyer, Ben Johnson, Emory Parnell, Harry Strang, Martin Garralaga, Gene Rizzi, Dickie Jones, Ted Mapes, William Newell, Edward Peil Sr.
Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) has stolen Doc Holliday's (Walter Huston) horse, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) wants to put him behind bars. Meanwhile, Doc becomes a friend of Billy and brings him to his ranch to escape arrest. At the ranch, Billy meets Doc's mistress Rio (Jane Russell), and romance blooms. Gunfights ensue as Doc helps Billy evade the law, and they ride through the desert with Garrett and his posse in pursuit.
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Radio Flyer 1992 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Ben Johnson, Sean Baca, Robert Munic, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tom Hanks
Two young brothers, Mike (Elijah Wood) and Bobby (John Heard), fantasize about escaping from their abusive stepfather and using their "magic" Radio Flyer wagon as the means to attain that goal.
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The Rare Breed 1966 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., David Brian, Charles Lampkin
In the 1880s, Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) strives to introduce a new breed of short-horned Hereford cattle to the ranges of Texas. She gets help–finally–from Burnett (James Stewart).
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Red Dawn 1984  PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: John Milius
Cast: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Powers Boothe, Ron O'Neal, Lea Thompson, Ben Johnson, Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, Darren Dalton, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Frank McRae, Vladek Sheybal
In the mid-1980s, Russians and Cubans are invading the United States, and paratroopers land in a small town in Colorado where they attack a high school. Some of the teenagers escape. They stop at a store to get a truck, weapons, and other supplies and head for the nearby mountains. Now, from their secluded hide-away, the teens stage guerilla operations in an attempt to hold back the invaders. This is the first film ever to receive a PG-13 rating. 2 User Reviews
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| | I will never forget this movie | DREAMIN 09/15/2009 | | I still have this movie, it was one I first bought when dvds came out and I am going to put it on dvd, it is an excellent movie,really shows what can happen and if you have the strength to survive it.he is and always will be my favorite actor. |
| | anonymouse 10/21/2007 | | the film for the time was good |
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The Red Pony 1973 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Henry Fonda, Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, Lieux Dressler, Jack Elam, Clint Howard, Richard Jaeckel, Rance Howard, Julian Rivero, Victor Sen Yung
Pretty good TV remake of the John Steinbeck story about the stern father (Henry Fonda) and his son (Clint Howard) in the early 1900s. A pony for the boy is a way to demonstrate the father's love, which is hard for him to express in words.
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Rio Grande 1950 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Claude Jarman Jr., Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, Harry Carey Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen, Grant Withers, Patrick Wayne, Steve Pendleton, Alberto Morin, Stan Jones
Indians are on the warpath. Fortunately for the good guys, Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is a cavalry commander fighting the Indians while trying to convince his wife (Maureen O'Hara) that life along the Mexican border is not all that bad.
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The Sacketts 1979 TV, 193 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Jeff Osterhage, Gilbert Roland, John Vernon, Ruth Roman, Jack Elam, Gene Evans, L.Q. Jones, Paul Koslo, Mercedes McCambridge, Slim Pickens, Pat Buttram
This made-for-TV Western combines the plots of Louis L'Amour's "The Daybreakers" and "The Sacketts" and takes place at the end of the Civil War when the Sackett brothers–Tell (Sam Elliott), Orrin (Tom Selleck), and Ty (Jeff Osterhage)–escape from a family feud and head West from their Tennessee home. While Tell prospects for gold, Orrin and Ty join cowboys Tom Sunday (Glenn Ford) and Cap Roundtree (Ben Johnson) herding cattle on the journey to Santa Fe where new troubles await.
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The Shadow Riders 1982 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Katharine Ross, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Carey Jr., Gene Evans, Jane Greer, Jeff Osterhage, Dominique Dunne
Following the kidnapping of their family by Confederate soldiers, two brothers, Mac and Dal Traven (Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott) are determined in their search to find their missing kin in this story based on a Louis L'Amour Western.
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 Shane 1953 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Jack Palance, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Elisha Cook Jr., Ellen Corby, Emile Meyer, Douglas Spencer, John Dierkes, Paul McVey, Edith Evanson
This is one of the best Westerns ever made. It features a family of homesteaders befriended by a mysterious man (Alan Ladd) who helps them fight the cattle baron trying to bar farming on free land. The film won one Academy Award (Best Cinematography) and was nominated for five others: Best Picture, two for Best Supporting Actor (Brandon de Wilde and Jack Palance), Best Director, and Best Writing.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr., Mildred Natwick, Paul Fix, George O'Brien, Arthur Shields, Michael Dugan, Noble Johnson, Fred Graham, Tom Tyler, Jack Pennick
Tried and true cavalry officer Capt. Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) is getting ready for retirement, but there is one more job left to do. He is given the assignment of escorting the wife and niece–Abby and Olivia (Mildred Natwick and Joanne Dru)–of his commanding officer Major Mac Allshard (George O'Brien) from the fort to the stagecoach at Sudros Wells. However, the Apaches are on the warpath; they have massacred Custer and the Seventh Cavalry, and dangers lie ahead on the trek to Sudros Wells. The dangers include the Indians AND two of Brittles' men (John Agar and Harry Carey, Jr.) who fight for the attention of Olivia. John and John (Ford and Wayne) are in great form.
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Soggy Bottom, USA 1981 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Cast: Ben Johnson, Ann Wedgeworth, Lois Nettleton, Dub Taylor, Anthony Zerbe, Jack Elam, P.J. Soles, Cloris Leachman, Lane Smith, Don Johnson, Earl Boen, Hank Worden
Set in a Southern town during Prohibition, a sheriff tries to keep law and order with virtually no support from the townsfolk. The fine cast makes this otherwise weak film watchable.
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Stranger on My Land 1988 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Elikann
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Dee Wallace, Ben Johnson, Pat Hingle, Richard Anderson, Ned Romero, Barry Corbin, Michael Paul Chan, Terry O'Quinn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When the U.S. government plans to build a missile base on a Vietnam veteran's land, he puts more than one obstacle in the way.
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The Sugarland Express 1974 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Michael Sacks, Ben Johnson, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly, Louise Latham, Dean Smith, Bill Thurman, Harrison Zanuck, Jessie Lee Fulton, Ted Grossman
This story is based on the real-life experience of Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) and wife Lou Jean (Goldie Hawn) who escaped from prison and attempted to reclaim their baby from foster parents. Spielberg's first feature film.
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Ten Who Dared 1960  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong, Ben Johnson, L.Q. Jones, Dan Sheridan, David Stollery, Stan Jones, David Frankham
This Disney failure is about the expedition down the Colorado River in the 1860s that is led by John Wesley Powell.
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Terror Train 1980 R, 97 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon, Sandee Currie, Vanity, Timothy Webber, Anthony Sherwood, Greg Swanson, Sandee Currie, Howard Busgang, Steve Michaels, Donald Lamoureux, Victor Knight
Fraternity brothers board a train for a costume party that turns into a terror-filled excursion when a mentally disturbed former fraternity member takes advantage of this opportunity to kill his former friends. Among the students on the train is Alana Maxwell (Jamie Lee Curtis) who, along with the other women students, panics when members of the fraternity are killed off, one by one. The conductor, Carne (Ben Johnson) tries to calm things down, but it is a train ride destined to be filled with terror.
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Tex 1982 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Hunter
Cast: Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Frances Lee McCain, Ben Johnson, Emilio Estevez, Phil Brock, Zeljko Ivanek, Pamela Ludwig
Disney Studios produced this coming-of-age adventure about teenaged brothers Tex (Matt Dillon) and Mason (Jim Metzler) in Oklahoma who live on their own without parental support. Their experiences are touched by sex and drugs as the brothers struggle to find their way in the world.
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The Train Robbers 1973 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: John Wayne, Ann - Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban
Lane (John Wayne) sets out with Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Margret) to find stolen gold that had disappeared after a train robbery. Mrs. Lowe tells Lane that her husband had stolen the gold and told her where the gold was hidden. She says that she wants to return it to the bank and clear the family name. They find the gold but then are attacked by banditos. They defeat the banditos, and Mrs. Lowe leaves on a train to return the gold. Then, a Pinkerton agent (Ricardo Montalban) arrives on the scene and tells Lane that he is following Mrs. Lowe because he knows that Mrs. Lowe has concocted the story about her husband and that she learned about the gold from the real thief as he lay dying. Angry at being tricked, Lane rides after the departing train.
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The Undefeated 1969 G, 119 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Bruce Cabot, Ben Johnson, Antonio Aguilar, Lee Meriwether, Roman Gabriel, Merlin Olsen, Harry Carey Jr., Royal Dano, Marian McCargo, Melissa Newman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Edward Faulkner, Paul Fix
Ex-Yankee Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) join forces after the Civil War in the business of selling horses in Mexico.
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Wagon Master 1950 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, Ward Bond, James Arness, Charles Kemper, Alan Mowbray, Jane Darwell, Kathleen O'Malley, Russell Simpson, Francis Ford, Jim Thorpe, Mickey Simpson, Ruth Clifford, Fred Libby
A Mormon wagon train, led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond), is headed for the Utah territory, and two horse traders–Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.)–are hired to guide them there. Along the way they are joined by Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray) and his medicine show troupe. Also joining them are Uncle Shiloh Clegg (Charles Kemper) and his family who have just murdered a clerk while robbing an express office. As if dealing with the outlaw Clegg family was not enough, the wagon train must also contend with the Indians along the trail in this great Ford film.
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 The Wild Bunch 1969 R, 145 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Strother Martin, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sanchez, L.Q. Jones, Emilio Fernandez, Albert Dekker, Bo Hopkins, Dub Taylor, Paul Harper, Jorge Russek
In 1913, Pancho Villa was the leader of a revolutionary army that the U.S. was warily aiding. This story is about a group of outlaws whose leader Pike Bishop (William Holden) boldly hijacks an ammunition train loaded with supplies for Gen. Mapache (Emilio Fernandez), and Bishop's ex-partner Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) is in hot pursuit. A Sam Peckinpah classic that has it all.
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Will Penny 1968 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Tom Gries
Cast: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Donald Pleasence, Clifton James, William Schallert
Charlton Heston plays the title role of a rugged cowboy living on the range who forsakes society until he meets Catherine Allen (Joan Hackett) who is out for a new life, and introduces him to the more civilized world in which she lives. One of Heston's best performances.
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1. 3 Godfathers (1948)
aka: Three Godfathers
2. Angels in the Outfield (1994)
3. Bite the Bullet (1975)
4. Breakheart Pass (1976)
5. The Chase (1991)
6. Cherry 2000 (1987)
7. Chisum (1970)
8. Dillinger (1973)
9. The Evening Star (1996)
10. The Getaway (1972)
11. The Greatest (1977)
12. Hang 'Em High (1968)
13. The Hunter (1980)
14. Hustle (1975)
15. Junior Bonner (1972)
16. Kid Blue (1973)
17. The Last Picture Show (1971)
18. Let's Get Harry (1986)
aka: The Rescue
19. Major Dundee (1965)
20. Mighty Joe Young (1949)
21. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)
22. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
23. The Outlaw (1943)
24. Radio Flyer (1992)
25. The Rare Breed (1966)
26. Red Dawn (1984)
27. The Red Pony (1973)
28. Rio Grande (1950)
29. The Sacketts (1979)
30. The Shadow Riders (1982)
31. Shane (1953)
32. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
33. Soggy Bottom, USA (1981)
34. Stranger on My Land (1988)
35. The Sugarland Express (1974)
36. Ten Who Dared (1960)
37. Terror Train (1980)
38. Tex (1982)
39. The Train Robbers (1973)
40. The Undefeated (1969)
41. Wagon Master (1950)
42. The Wild Bunch (1969)
43. Will Penny (1968)
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