The best Brandon De Wilde’s movies

Brandon De Wilde

Brandon De Wilde

09/04/1942- 06/07/1972
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Shane

Shane
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 23/04/1953
  • Character: Joey Starrett
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Hud

Hud
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 28/05/1963
  • Character: Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/04/1965
  • Character: Ens. Jeremiah 'Jere' Torrey
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

The Trip

The Trip
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/08/1967
  • Character: Extra (uncredited)
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Night Passage

Night Passage
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/07/1957
  • Character: Joey Adams
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 Deserter

The Deserter
6.3/10
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.

Those Calloways

Those Calloways
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 28/01/1965
  • Character: Bucky Calloway
Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.

All Fall Down

All Fall Down
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1962
  • Character: Clinton Willart
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.

A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/06/1963
  • Character: Bill Fowler Jr (uncredited)
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
7.7/10
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

The Missouri Traveler

The Missouri Traveler
6.3/10
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.

Blue Denim

Blue Denim
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/07/1959
  • Character: Arthur Bartley
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion. Director Philip Dunne's 1959 film about teenage pregnancy stars Brandon de Wilde, Carol Lynley, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, William Schallert and Roberta Shore.

The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1952
  • Character: John Henry
Tomboy Julie Harris dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.

The Tenderfoot

The Tenderfoot
7.8/10
  • Release: 08/11/1964
  • Character: Jim Tevis
Based on author James H. Tevis' Arizona in the 50s, The Tenderfoot stars Brandon De Wilde as young Tevis. With nothing more than a stetson, a gun, and three buddies, Tevis heads west to seek his destiny. Along the way, he befriends a crusty Army dragoons captain (James Whitmore), Kit Carson's black-sheep brother Mose (Brian Keith), and an itinerant musician-turned-trooper (Paul Durand). Tevis' adventures include the roundup of wild mustangs and a climactic horse race

Good-bye, My Lady

Good-bye, My Lady
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/05/1956
  • Character: Skeeter Jackson
An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

Wild in the Sky

Wild in the Sky
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1972
  • Character: Josh
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.

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