The best James Arness’s drama movies

James Arness

James Arness

26/05/1923- 03/06/2011
Today we present the best James Arness’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 James Arness’s movies.
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The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World
7.1/10
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place
7.9/10
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.

Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain
5.1/10
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1952
  • Character: Leon Williams
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.

Battleground

Battleground
7.4/10
The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.

The People Against O'Hara

The People Against O'Hara
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1951
  • Character: John Fordman 'Johnny' O'Hara
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky
6.8/10
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/06/1955
  • Character: Schlieter
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.

The Girl in White

The Girl in White
6.9/10
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

Her Twelve Men

Her Twelve Men
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/08/1954
  • Character: Ralph Munsey
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.

Flame of the Islands

Flame of the Islands
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/12/1955
  • Character: Kelly Rand
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

Iron Man

Iron Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/08/1951
  • Character: Alex Mallick (as Jim Arness)
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that makes him an "iron man." Seeing dollar signs in Rose's eyes, Coke reluctantly agrees, though he's fearful of the "killer instinct" that makes him a knockout success in the ring...and brings him the booing hatred of the fans. Will Coke throw off his personal demon before he kills someone?

The Veils of Bagdad

The Veils of Bagdad
6.2/10
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!

Roses Are Red

Roses Are Red
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/11/1947
  • Character: Ray (as James Aurness)
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.

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