The best William Benedict’s action movies

William Benedict

William Benedict

16/04/1917- 25/11/1999
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Benedict’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 William Benedict.

Ghost Chasers

Ghost Chasers
6.2/10
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Adventures of Captain Marvel

Adventures of Captain Marvel
7.2/10
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne
6.1/10
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Show Them No Mercy!

Show Them No Mercy!
7/10
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Bowery Battalion

Bowery Battalion
6.2/10
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Live Wires

Live Wires
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 12/01/1946
  • Character: Whitey (as Billy Benedict)
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.

Newsboys' Home

Newsboys' Home
6.3/10
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.

Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs
6.2/10
Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.

Smuggler's Cove

Smuggler's Cove
6.3/10
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.

The Dirt Gang

The Dirt Gang
2.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1972
  • Character: Station Attendant
A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.

Junior G-Men of the Air

Junior G-Men of the Air
6.1/10
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Dan Withers
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader
6/10
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.

Perils of Nyoka

Perils of Nyoka
7.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 27/06/1942
  • Character: Red Davis
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...

Docks of New York

Docks of New York
6.4/10
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.

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