Jack Elam
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-11-13
Locus Natus: Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
Et ut: William Scott Elam, William Scott "Jack" Elam
Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
release : 1961.12.18popularis : 11.169
High Noon
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...
release : 1952.06.09popularis : 14.745
Firecreek
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
release : 1968.01.24popularis : 4.549
The Night of the Grizzly
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces...
release : 1966.04.20popularis : 5.151
Finders Keepers
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
release : 1952.01.01popularis : 1.437
Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
release : 1952.11.11popularis : 9.268
The Comancheros
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of...
release : 1961.12.16popularis : 7.333
The Cannonball Run
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to...
release : 1981.06.19popularis : 31.534
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K....
release : 1957.05.30popularis : 16.732
Support Your Local Sheriff!
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
release : 1969.03.26popularis : 17.298
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy...
release : 1979.06.27popularis : 5.218
Pardners
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with...
release : 1956.08.01popularis : 7.374
Hawmps!
In old-west Texas, the cavalry's horses can't take the heat. So the military sends them camels instead, and assigns one man to convince the unit that...
release : 1976.05.20popularis : 1.673
Suburban Commando
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth...
release : 1991.10.04popularis : 10.718
Hannie Caulder
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped...
release : 1971.11.08popularis : 10.003
Cannonball Run II
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with...
release : 1984.06.29popularis : 15.406
Night Passage
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years...
release : 1957.07.24popularis : 7.801
Never a Dull Moment
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster...
release : 1968.06.26popularis : 5.614
Rio Lobo
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
release : 1970.04.01popularis : 16.409
Count the Hours!
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
release : 1953.04.01popularis : 2.104
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
release : 1978.07.05popularis : 4.257
Rancho Notorious
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from...
release : 1952.03.06popularis : 11.228
Baby Face Nelson
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
release : 1957.12.11popularis : 2.437
Moonfleet
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old...
release : 1955.06.24popularis : 6.623
The Way West
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US....
release : 1967.05.24popularis : 7.565
Artists and Models
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he...
release : 1955.11.07popularis : 8.323
Rawhide
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
release : 1951.03.25popularis : 6.689
The Sundowners
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
release : 1950.02.02popularis : 1.71
Creature from Black Lake
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
release : 1976.03.01popularis : 3.212
The Rare Breed
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle...
release : 1966.02.02popularis : 11.519
Ride, Vaquero!
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
release : 1953.07.17popularis : 2.914
The Ring
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
release : 1952.09.26popularis : 1.25
The Last Sunset
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to...
release : 1961.06.08popularis : 8.835
The Norseman
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.
release : 1978.10.05popularis : 10.474
4 for Texas
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000...
release : 1963.12.21popularis : 11.998
Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum....
release : 1955.04.28popularis : 15.539
Dirty Dingus Magee
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...
release : 1970.11.18popularis : 2.706
The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work...
release : 1954.02.12popularis : 16.887
The Man from Laramie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself...
release : 1955.08.19popularis : 19.314
Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to...
release : 1971.05.26popularis : 10.706
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
release : 1997.07.27popularis : 3.397
Dragoon Wells Massacre
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.
release : 1957.08.28popularis : 2.921
The Gun Runners
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled...
release : 1958.08.01popularis : 5.595
Bird of Paradise
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. There, Andre becomes attracted to the native life and...
release : 1951.03.14popularis : 1.51
Hawken's Breed
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 5.125
The Over the Hill Gang
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
release : 1969.07.06popularis : 3.007
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...
release : 1950.11.08popularis : 3.884
Sidekicks
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for...
release : 1974.03.21popularis : 1.585
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
release : 1955.02.16popularis : 3.236
Thunder Over Arizona
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in...
release : 1956.08.04popularis : 2.073
Lure of the Swamp
Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou.
release : 1957.05.01popularis : 2.909
Edge of Eternity
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around...
release : 1959.11.02popularis : 2.481
Jinxed!
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold...
release : 1982.10.22popularis : 5.619
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
release : 1981.10.09popularis : 3.31
High Lonesome
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
release : 1950.09.01popularis : 5.629
The Girl in Lovers Lane
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
release : 1960.06.16popularis : 3.344
The Last Challenge
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
release : 1967.12.22popularis : 9.966
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
release : 1972.09.13popularis : 5.009
The Last Rebel
Set in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of two Confederate men and a black man who they...
release : 1971.09.24popularis : 3.73
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
release : 1988.11.13popularis : 4.266
Gun Belt
Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying...
release : 1953.07.24popularis : 9.037
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.
release : 1968.10.25popularis : 1.853
Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a...
release : 1955.07.03popularis : 8.948
Once Upon a Texas Train
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John...
release : 1988.10.12popularis : 3.602
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
release : 1970.04.01popularis : 4.163
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.
release : 1990.12.25popularis : 3.136
One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
release : 1950.04.01popularis : 2.392
The Villain
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Simpson wants the money and hires...
release : 1979.07.26popularis : 17.032
Princess of the Nile
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of...
release : 1954.07.01popularis : 1.987
Man Without a Star
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
release : 1955.03.24popularis : 8.609
Sacred Ground
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own...
release : 1983.03.11popularis : 2.831
Shadow Force
Policemen by Day - Assassins at Night. A story all too familiar yet amazing to see. Follow the daily lives of corrupt policemen as they make a...
release : 1992.12.01popularis : 0.925
Appointment in Honduras
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying...
release : 1953.10.16popularis : 2.324
Big Bad John
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
release : 1990.02.01popularis : 2.194
The Winds of Autumn
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
release : 1976.06.01popularis : 5.153
A Knife for the Ladies
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than...
release : 1974.05.02popularis : 5.226
Lure of the Wilderness
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates...
release : 1952.07.16popularis : 2.079
The Slowest Gun in the West
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
release : 1960.05.07popularis : 5.212
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
Formerly lost western starring Jack Elam
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 1.189
Key to the City
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is...
release : 1950.02.02popularis : 2.708
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
release : 1986.11.15popularis : 1.838
The Aurora Encounter
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose presence divides the community.
release : 1986.08.01popularis : 1.088
The Red Pony
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
release : 1973.03.17popularis : 1.553
My Man and I
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee...
release : 1952.09.05popularis : 1.103
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up...
release : 1978.05.17popularis : 1.293
Skyward Christmas
In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.
release : 1981.12.03popularis : 1.247
Uninvited
A fortune in gold lures 8 misfits to an Indian burial ground, resulting in murder.
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 0.851
The Battle at Apache Pass
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically...
release : 1952.05.09popularis : 7.365
Ride a Northbound Horse
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is plotting to get the stallion away from the innocent...
release : 1969.03.16popularis : 2.648
Jubal
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly...
release : 1956.02.25popularis : 8.868
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
release : 1973.05.23popularis : 15.577
The Moonlighter
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they...
release : 1953.09.19popularis : 5.009
The Silent Partner
When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not...
release : 1955.12.21popularis : 3.183
The Bushwhackers
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that...
release : 1951.12.07popularis : 2.82
Grayeagle
A young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontier man John Colter who goes on an epic search for...
release : 1977.12.28popularis : 2.805
Jubilee Trail
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with...
release : 1954.05.15popularis : 3.385
Vera Cruz
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane...
release : 1954.12.25popularis : 11.472
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...
release : 2004.07.25popularis : 4.285
I Am Not a Freak
This film is a fascinating look at some people afflicted with congenital deformities of an extreme nature. Their ability to live with their...
release : 1987.11.01popularis : 1.222
Montana Territory
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a...
release : 1952.05.31popularis : 2.557
Cattle Queen of Montana
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
release : 1954.11.18popularis : 3.553
Ride Clear of Diablo
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
release : 1954.02.10popularis : 7.38
Lost
A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.
release : 1983.10.22popularis : 1.429
Bonanza: The Return
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
release : 1993.11.24popularis : 9.147
Bonanza: Under Attack
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the...
release : 1995.01.15popularis : 1.776
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
release : 1974.01.09popularis : 3.781
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
Scrooge is visited by a girl with a snow globe—which shows him people like Mike Love and Three Dog Night singing Christmas carols—to...
release : 1984.12.23popularis : 0.397
The Wild Country
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of...
release : 1970.12.16popularis : 5.131
Pony Express Rider
A young Texas Man who saw his father get killed by a group of bandits, decides years later to go to work for the Pony Express. But he is not just...
release : 1976.11.01popularis : 1.927
A Ticket to Tomahawk
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians...
release : 1950.05.19popularis : 5.046
Wild Weed
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
release : 1949.07.20popularis : 2.186
Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
release : 1975.03.25popularis : 2.203
Once Upon a Time in the West
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the...
release : 1968.12.21popularis : 47.592
Kismet
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph. Kismet (The will of Allah), is...
release : 1955.10.08popularis : 5.971
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a floundering business, and the magical gold watch...
release : 1981.05.21popularis : 2.067
Cat Ballou
A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from outlaws and build a school for local children.
release : 1971.09.05popularis : 1.966
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced...
release : 1976.05.29popularis : 1.848
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking...
release : 1970.12.09popularis : 3.312