The best Steve Pendleton’s action movies

Steve Pendleton

Steve Pendleton

16/09/1908- 03/10/1984
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Steve Pendleton’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 Steve Pendleton.

Pit Stop

Pit Stop
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 14/05/1969
  • Character: Luther
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.

Men of the Timberland

Men of the Timberland
5.5/10
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.

The Duke of West Point

The Duke of West Point
6.4/10
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

Ride, Ryder, Ride!

Ride, Ryder, Ride!
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 02/02/1949
  • Character: Gerry Brooks
Riding the plains with Little Beaver and Buckskin Blodgett, Red Ryder encounters bandits trying to hold up the stagecoach carrying Libby Brooks, owner of the Devil's Hole newspaper

Arson, Inc.

Arson, Inc.
5.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1949
  • Character: Murph, the undercover man (as Gaylord Pendleton)
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

The Seas Beneath

The Seas Beneath
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 30/01/1931
  • Character: Ens. Richard 'Dick' Cabot (as Gaylord Pendleton)
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.

Behind The Headlines

Behind The Headlines
6/10
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

Fighting to Live

Fighting to Live
5/10
When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.

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