The best James Whitmore’s western movies

James Whitmore

James Whitmore

01/10/1921- 06/02/2009
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Chato's Land

Chato's Land
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1972
  • Character: Joshua Everette
A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.

Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!
7/10
This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/07/1969
  • Character: Levi
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.

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier
6.3/10
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston).

The Command

The Command
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/02/1954
  • Character: Sgt. Elliott
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri
6.2/10
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Chuka

Chuka
6.3/10
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

I Will Fight No More Forever

I Will Fight No More Forever
7.2/10
Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.

The Outriders

The Outriders
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/03/1950
  • Character: Clint Priest
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....

Waterhole #3

Waterhole #3
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 10/10/1967
  • Character: Captain Shipley
James Coburn is a con man and grifter who comes across a map that leads to a fortune in stolen US Army gold. Carroll O'Connor is the crooked sheriff who stays on Coburn's tail.

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