The best George Kennedy’s western 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 Sons of Katie Elder

The Sons of Katie Elder
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/06/1965
  • Character: Curley
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/07/1969
  • Character: Chris
In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) liberate Mexican political prisoners, train them as fighters and assist them in a desperate attack on a Mexican fortress in an attempt to free a revolutionary leader.

Cahill U.S. Marshal

Cahill U.S. Marshal
6.4/10
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.

Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 24/05/1962
  • Character: Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Bandolero!

Bandolero!
6.5/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 01/06/1968
  • Character: Sheriff July Johnson
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.

Shenandoah

Shenandoah
7.3/10
  • Genre: WarWestern
  • Release: 03/06/1965
  • Character: Col. Fairchild
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.

The Ballad of Josie

The Ballad of Josie
5.7/10
A frontier widow (Doris Day) aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher (George Kennedy) in old Wyoming.

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/11/1987
  • Character: General Nelson Miles
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and get the supplies they need. They also uncover corruption within a government outpost and find themselves in a dangerous position.

The Bull Of The West

The Bull Of The West
5.4/10
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).

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.

The Man Who Came Back

The Man Who Came Back
4.9/10
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.

Dirty Dingus Magee

Dirty Dingus Magee
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 18/11/1970
  • Character: Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so the soldiers at the nearby fort (the main customers) won't go to Little Big Horn. Dingus tries to stir up more trouble and get involved with the pale, baby-talking Indian, Anna. The film is a send-up of the oft-repeated phrase "the Code of the West" and exaggerates it and what it stands for into the ridiculousness that it is.

The Gunfighters

The Gunfighters
5/10
In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/10/1961
  • Character: Hawk
Feature-length Western based on the hit TV show 'Tales of Wells Fargo,' about a Wells Fargo Company troubleshooter who becomes the target of an outlaw he helped send to prison.

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