The best Dean Jagger’s movies

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

07/11/1903- 05/02/1991
Today we present the best Dean Jagger’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Dean Jagger’s movies.
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The Robe

The Robe
6.7/10
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

Game of Death

Game of Death
5.9/10
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/01/1971
  • Character: Prospector
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.

White Christmas

White Christmas
7.6/10
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High
7.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 21/12/1949
  • Character: Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.

Alligator

Alligator
6.1/10
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/07/1960
  • Character: William L. Morgan
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock
7.7/10
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

Rawhide

Rawhide
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/03/1951
  • Character: Yancy
Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go round that these men have been caught. Can you guess where the outlaws decide to hide out while they plan a large gold robbery? What follows is a film that concentrates on small details (like attempts to slip a warning note to a passing stage, or to reach a hidden gun that the bad guys don't know about) as the captives try anything to get away from the outlaws.

The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 18/06/1959
  • Character: Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Pursued

Pursued
7.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/03/1947
  • Character: Grant
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Western Union

Western Union
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Edward Creighton
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

Red Sundown

Red Sundown
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1956
  • Character: Sheriff Jade Murphy
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.

King Creole

King Creole
7/10
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.

Forty Guns

Forty Guns
7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Sheriff Ned Logan
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Executive Suite

Executive Suite
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/04/1954
  • Character: Jesse Q. Grimm
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Dark City

Dark City
6.7/10
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

Brigham Young

Brigham Young
6.3/10
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.

The Kremlin Letter

The Kremlin Letter
6.2/10
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China gets the atomic bomb.

Cash McCall

Cash McCall
6.3/10
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.

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