The best James Best’s western movies

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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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.

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.

The Raid

The Raid
6.8/10
  • Genre: WarWestern
  • Release: 04/08/1954
  • Character: Lt. Robinson
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

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.

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.

Comanche Territory

Comanche Territory
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1950
  • Character: Sam
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.

Seminole

Seminole
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1953
  • Character: Corporal Gerad
19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade, Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. The fact that Caldwell was the boyhood chum of Seminole chief Osceola is all the more reason to resist Dade's genocidal policies. After a deadly confrontation which costs dozens of lives on both sides, Osceola rescues Caldwell, whereupon the latter is court-martialed. Later on, Osceola comes to Fort King to talk peace, and is promptly killed by persons unknown. An attempt is made to frame Caldwell for the killing, but the truth eventually prevails.

The Cimarron Kid

The Cimarron Kid
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/01/1952
  • Character: Bitter Creek Dalton
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.

Kansas Raiders

Kansas Raiders
6.1/10
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.

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.

Apache Drums

Apache Drums
6.5/10
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Seven Angry Men

Seven Angry Men
6.4/10
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1955 period drama about abolitionist John Brown's crusade to free the slaves stars Raymond Massey, Jeffrey Hunter, Debra Paget, Larry Pennell, Leo Gordon, James Best, John Smith, Dennis Weaver, James Edwards, Guy Williams, James Anderson, Dabbs Greer, Robert "Smoki" Whitfield and Tom Irish.

Cast a Long Shadow

Cast a Long Shadow
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/08/1959
  • Character: Sam Mullen
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive

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.

City of Bad Men

City of Bad Men
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/09/1953
  • Character: Deputy Gig
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.

Column South

Column South
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/05/1953
  • Character: Primrose
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.

The Battle at Apache Pass

The Battle at Apache Pass
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1952
  • Character: Cpl. Hassett
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/03/1958
  • Character: Kit Caswell
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

The Yellow Tomahawk

The Yellow Tomahawk
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1954
  • Character: Private Bliss
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.

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