The best James Best’s movies on YouTube

James Best

James Best

26/07/1926- 06/04/2015
Today we present the best James Best’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 Best’s movies.
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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet
7.5/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 23/03/1956
  • Character: Crewman (uncredited)
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.6/10
An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.

Winchester '73

Winchester '73
7.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1950
  • Character: Crater
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1976
  • Character: Jim
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny
7.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 23/06/1954
  • Character: Lt. JG Jorgensen
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

The Left Handed Gun

The Left Handed Gun
6.4/10
When a crooked sheriff murder his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome
7.1/10
A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely.

Shenandoah

Shenandoah
7.3/10
  • Genre: WarWestern
  • Release: 03/06/1965
  • Character: Carter, Rebel Soldier
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 Rack

The Rack
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/11/1956
  • Character: Millard Chilson Cassidy
Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?

Firecreek

Firecreek
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/01/1968
  • Character: Drew
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews
4.1/10
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....

Sounder

Sounder
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1972
  • Character: Sheriff Charlie Young
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

Moondance Alexander

Moondance Alexander
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 22/04/2007
  • Character: McClancy
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential. Moondance manages to talk Dante into training her and Checkers for the Bow Valley Classic and despite the criticism of her peers; discovers that perseverance, loyalty and individuality can land you in the winner's circle.

Return of the Killer Shrews

Return of the Killer Shrews
3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/2012
  • Character: Thorne Sherman
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.

The Quick Gun

The Quick Gun
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1964
  • Character: Scotty Wade (listed as "Scotty Grant" in end credits but named "Scotty Wade" in the film)
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.

Verboten!

Verboten!
6.7/10
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Black Spurs

Black Spurs
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/05/1965
  • Character: Ralph Elkins
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.

Black Gold

Black Gold
5.5/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 21/07/1962
  • Character: Jericho Larkin
Two friends join together to strike oil during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s, and wind up fighting over the same oil wells and the same girl.

Ode to Billy Joe

Ode to Billy Joe
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/06/1976
  • Character: Dewey Barksdale
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.

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