The best George Kennedy’s action movies

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

18/02/1925- 28/02/2016
We present our ranking of the best George Kennedy’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about George Kennedy.
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The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen
7.7/10
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Small Soldiers

Small Soldiers
6.3/10
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
7/10
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

The Eiger Sanction

The Eiger Sanction
6.4/10
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

The Delta Force

The Delta Force
5.6/10
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Earthquake

Earthquake
5.9/10
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Airport '77

Airport '77
5.8/10
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

Airport 1975

Airport 1975
5.7/10
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

The Concorde... Airport '79

The Concorde... Airport '79
4.4/10
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

Airport

Airport
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 05/03/1970
  • Character: Joe Patroni
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

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6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 09/01/1970
  • Character: John Little
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Brass Target

Brass Target
5.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 22/12/1978
  • Character: Gen. George S. Patton
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
6.1/10
Older lawman Marshal Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is struggling to transition from the Old West to the more modernized one -- so much so that Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam) forces him into retirement. Not one to go away easily, Flagg quickly fixates on his old nemesis, McKay (George Kennedy), formerly believed to be dead, who is now back in town and up to no good. But Flagg soon discovers that McKay might be his greatest ally in a fight to prove that the old-timers aren't useless in the New West.

Sands of Oblivion

Sands of Oblivion
3.7/10
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.

Brain Dead

Brain Dead
5.9/10
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!

Steel

Steel
6/10
Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.

Radioactive Dreams

Radioactive Dreams
5.5/10
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.

Nightmare at Noon

Nightmare at Noon
5/10
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
5.3/10
The hero is given his mentor's bow (the Heartbow) which chooses its new owner when passed on. It fires arrows that blow up like grenades, but can only be wielded by the one chosen to wield her. The hero is a member of a nomadic tribe wiped out by the Draikian Empire's forces. He attempts to find the wizard Lazar-Sa who might be able to help him. He is joined by a thief looking for adventure and cash, and the daughter of a goddess, Estra, looking to revenger herself on Lazar-Sa for crimes against her mother.

The 'Human' Factor

The 'Human' Factor
5.6/10
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

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