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The son of a lawyer, John McIntire was born in Washington and raised in Montana, developing a taste for the life of a rancher before confining himself to the environs of the theater. Upon graduating from U.S.C., McIntire briefly went to sea, then... more
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The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Cast: Joel McCrea
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 81min
With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer Walter Mirisch hired old-timer Joel McCrea to play a rather less-dandified version in this routine Western released in...
Tags: Drama Musical Rock Musical
Length: 90min
In this musical drama, a popular rock star leads a successful and happy life while his grandfather, a stern, traditional preacherman admonishes the lad for his sinful existence. The young man is filled with guilt and after the old reverend dies,...
Cast: Jock Mahoney Raymond Bailey Ann Harding
Tags: Romantic Drama Romantic Fantasy Drama Fantasy
Length: 82min
The "Bridey Murphy" craze of the 1950s was the catalyst for I've Lived Before. Jock Mahoney plays a contemporary pilot who survives a plane crash. Upon awakening, he is under the delusion that he is another airman, who died during the first World War....
Cast: Richard Widmark Donna Reed Barton MacLane John McIntire
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 83min
The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash. Set in post-Civil War Arizona, the film stars Richard Widmark as Jim Slater, who hopes to prove that...
Cast: Jacques Tourneur
Length: 66min
Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, Stranger on Horseback is one of Joel McCrea's shorter western vehicles, zipping merrily along at a mere 66 minutes. McCrea plays a travelling judge who makes it his mission in life to clean up the town of...
Cast: Audie Murphy
Tags: Drama Romance Sports Drama
Length: 82min
In this boxing drama, a young pugilist hopes his talent will be his ticket out of the ghetto. Sure enough, the welterweight slowly rises in the ranks until he finally gets a shot at challenging the champ. Unfortunately, the champ has offered to pay...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Eartha Kitt
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 83min
Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland to take a political post. Poitier's brother Clinton Macklin is in charge of a rebel organization, determine to topple the...
Cast: James Stewart Walter Brennan Henry Mancini
Tags: Psychological Western Western
Length: 97min
One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take on the ruthlessness of the frontier. Set in the Yukon, Stewart and his friends are driving cattle to market from Wyoming to...
Cast: Walter Matthau Burt Lancaster Bernard Herrmann
Tags: Western Psychological Western
Length: 104min
Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of startling brutality. The recently widowed Lancaster heads towards Texas with his son Donald McDonald. Most of the folks he meets,...
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Crime Docudrama
Length: 100min
Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from Columbus, GA, and just a stone's throw from the Ft. Benning Army base) where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices...
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