The best Sterling Hayden’s action movies

Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

26/03/1916- 23/05/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sterling Hayden’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sterling Hayden.

Terror in a Texas Town

Terror in a Texas Town
6.8/10
Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.

Kansas Pacific

Kansas Pacific
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 22/02/1953
  • Character: Capt. John Nelson
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.

5 Steps to Danger

5 Steps to Danger
6.3/10
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Timberjack

Timberjack
5.6/10
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.

Flat Top

Flat Top
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 26/10/1952
  • Character: Commander Dan Collier
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War

Blaze of Noon

Blaze of Noon
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1947
  • Character: Tad McDonald
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.

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