The best Robert Anderson’s movies

Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson

12/07/1920- 04/01/1996
Today we present the best Robert Anderson’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 Robert Anderson’s movies.
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Winchester '73

Winchester '73
7.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1950
  • Character: Basset (uncredited)
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.

Wichita

Wichita
6.9/10
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

Support Your Local Sheriff!
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 26/03/1969
  • Character: Man at Kate's Eatery (uncredited)
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.

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 Tall T

The Tall T
7.3/10
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher. When Usher learns that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to hold her for ransom. Tension builds over the next 24 hours as Usher awaits a response to his demands and as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta.

Untamed Frontier

Untamed Frontier
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/07/1952
  • Character: Ezra McCloud
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...

The Desert Hawk

The Desert Hawk
5.5/10
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Young Billy Young

Young Billy Young
5.7/10
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.

Buchanan Rides Alone

Buchanan Rides Alone
6.8/10
A Texan pits a powerful family against itself to save a Mexican from hanging.

Peggy

Peggy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Man with Van
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.

The Story of Molly X

The Story of Molly X
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1949
  • Character: Prosecutor
Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately. In lack of proof she can't be convicted for the murder, but she goes to jail for the robberies. It's a new and very open female prison, where she learns a profession for the first time in her life.

Undertow

Undertow
6.5/10
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.

The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1959
  • Character: Police Commissioner
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.

All Ashore

All Ashore
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1953
  • Character: Ship's Officer
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 06/06/1958
  • Character: Sgt. Williams (as Bob Anderson)
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.

Two of a Kind

Two of a Kind
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/07/1951
  • Character: Todd
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son.

The Night Runner

The Night Runner
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1957
  • Character: Ed Wallace
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?

Gold Strike

Gold Strike
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/03/1950
  • Character: Bart (as Bob Anderson)
Musical western short

High School Hellcats

High School Hellcats
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1958
  • Character: Police Lt. Manners
The Hellcats are an all-female gang bent on bucking authority and terrorizing the schools by doing things like having a bad attitude toward their teachers and parents. When Joyce, a new student, moves into the neighborhood, she draws the attention of The Hellcats. Desperate for acceptance and unhappy with her homelife, Joyce goes along with the gang, and is soon drinking, dancing and meeting boys. Can her parents stop her descent into depravity?

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