Movies starring Chill Wills

The Westerner (1940)

100 mins     Drama, Romance, Western      

Gary Cooper waking up in bed next to Walter Brennan is not the sort of thing you expect from a 1940's western but it is one of the many memorable scenes in "The Westerner". It is a wondefully comical scene from hidden card up...

Western Union (1941)

95 mins     Western      

It hits you immediately, why when it comes to "Western Union" is Randolph Scott second billed, surely Scott must be the star of this Fritz Lang western. Many who have watched "Western Union" will also agree with me when I say...

Red Canyon (1949)

82 mins     Western      

Is it wrong when the looks of a movie and an actress are the most memorable part of a movie? It is the question which presents me as I watched & review "Red Canyon" a pleasant little western from 1949. You see the trouble wit...

Tulsa (1949)

90 mins     Action , Drama, Romance      

Movie Review - Tulsa (1949) Susan Hayward stars as Cherokee, the daughter of a rancher who ends up in the oil business and becoming changed by the wealth which comes her way...

Rio Grande (1950)

105 mins     Romance, Western      

Some of my favourite John Wayne movies came early on in his career, after he had turned from a B-movie star into a genuine mainstream movie star but before you could accuse him of doing the same thing, basically playing to hi...

Thunder in the Dust (1950)

83 mins     Western      

Thunder in the Dust (1950) (aka: The Sundowners) Robert Preston & Robert Sterling star as brothers one good, the other bad and that causes moral conflict...

The Man from the Alamo (1953)

79 mins     Western      

For me there is something quite comforting about watching one of the many westerns made during the 1950s and that feeling comes from knowing that these are going to be adventure movies with plenty of action. It doesn't matter...

Tumbleweed (1953)

79 mins     Western      

That synopsis for "Tumbleweed" doesn't sound that special does it, Audie Murphy in another role as a good cowboy where he is blamed for something not of his doing and then having to try and clear his name. In fact you can put...

Kentucky Rifle (1955)

84 mins     Western      

"Kentucky Rifle" was written and directed by Carl K. Hittleman a name which probably means little to anyone these days but in his time he wrote, produced and directed a few movies with this being his first attempt at directin...

Gun for a Coward (1957)

88 mins     Western      

"Gun for a Coward" is just one of a number of westerns which had plenty going for it but ended up being not so much dull but forgettable. Here we have the interesting storyline of 3 brothers the elder, fatherly figure, the yo...

The Deadly Companions (1961)

93 mins     Western      

"The Deadly Companions" is an interesting western to watch because it is director Sam Peckinpah's first movie and you can see touches of his style which would become more prominent in later movies. From the depth of shots, th...

McLintock! (1963)

127 mins     Comedy, Romance, Western      

When you consider the number of great westerns which John Wayne appeared in it almost feels wrong to say that "McLintock!" is one of Wayne's more entertaining movies. With no real proper storyline rather than several smaller ...

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

122 mins     Western      

"Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" is a surprisingly good movie which may sound a rather daft thing to say seeing that it is a Sam Peckinpah movie and with that come high expectations. But with a production which was dogged by Pec...

Guns of a Stranger (1973)

91 mins     Western      

By the 70s the western was dying as a genre and the only ones which worked were those which did something very different or featured icons of the genre such as John Wayne and James Stewart. What definitely different work was ...