The best Audie Murphy’s movies

Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

20/06/1924- 28/05/1971
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The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven
6.6/10
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiawa tribe.

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet
7.2/10
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Apache Rifles

Apache Rifles
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/11/1964
  • Character: Capt. Jeff Stanton
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Beyond Glory

Beyond Glory
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1948
  • Character: Cadet Thomas
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.

Night Passage

Night Passage
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/07/1957
  • Character: The Utica Kid
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.

The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/09/1951
  • Character: The Youth
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.

The Quiet American

The Quiet American
6.6/10
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for the girl’s attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Arizona Raiders

Arizona Raiders
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/08/1965
  • Character: Clint Stewart
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.

Posse from Hell

Posse from Hell
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1961
  • Character: Banner Cole
Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others disply only revulsion.

Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/12/1953
  • Character: Jim Harvey
Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.

To Hell and Back

To Hell and Back
7.1/10
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.

The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/08/1952
  • Character: Luke Cromwell (The Silver Kid)
A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from one raid, he meets femme fatale Opal Lacy, who may not be healthy for him to know. When Luke, now calling himself the Silver Kid, joins forces with Marshal Tyrone, the gang had better watch out ...unless something drives a wedge between the new allies.

The Cimarron Kid

The Cimarron Kid
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/01/1952
  • Character: Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.

Column South

Column South
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/05/1953
  • Character: Lt. Jed Sayre
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.

Gunpoint

Gunpoint
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/03/1966
  • Character: Chad Lucas
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.

Showdown

Showdown
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/05/1963
  • Character: Chris Foster
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.

Destry

Destry
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/12/1954
  • Character: Tom Destry
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.

Sierra

Sierra
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1950
  • Character: Ring Hassard
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).

Kansas Raiders

Kansas Raiders
6.1/10
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.

Bullet for a Badman

Bullet for a Badman
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/09/1964
  • Character: Logan Keliher
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.

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