The best John McKee’s movies

John McKee

John McKee

30/12/1916- 12/05/2013
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The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter
7.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/06/1950
  • Character: Card Player (uncredited)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 12/04/1962
  • Character: Officer Marconi
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

The Big Country

The Big Country
7.9/10
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

1941

1941
5.8/10
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill
7/10
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail
6.5/10
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

The Cobweb

The Cobweb
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1955
  • Character: Deputy Sheriff (Uncredited)
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/07/1955
  • Character: Captain Symington
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his baseball career.

Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/10/1970
  • Character: Petey Williams
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.

The Gallant Hours

The Gallant Hours
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 13/06/1960
  • Character: Lieutenant Harrison Ludlam (uncredited)
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Backlash

Backlash
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/04/1956
  • Character: Harry, Deputy
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

Fort Dobbs

Fort Dobbs
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1958
  • Character: Largo Refugee at Fort (uncredited)
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ Conway.

Showdown

Showdown
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 03/05/1963
  • Character: Marshal Beaudine
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.

Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 02/01/1953
  • Character: Sgt. Wyatt E. Duzenbury
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.

Best Friends

Best Friends
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1975
  • Character: RV Salesman
Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.

Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.

Peggy

Peggy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Photographer
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.

Movie Movie

Movie Movie
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1978
  • Character: Timekeeper ("Dynamite Hands")
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
6.8/10
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story was a 1978 made for TV movie telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers. The movie was based on LeFlore's autobiography, Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues. It follows LeFlore from his heroin addiction, to his time in Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary, and tells of his discovery in prison by Billy Martin, who was then the manager of the Detroit Tigers. The role of Ron LeFlore was played by LeVar Burton. Larry B. Scott portrayed Ron LeFlore's younger brother. Former Detroit manager Billy Martin played himself, and former Tiger players Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup also appeared as themselves. The movie first aired on CBS Television on September 26, 1978.

Radar Secret Service

Radar Secret Service
2.5/10
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.

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