Movies starring James Arness

Iron Man (1951)

81 mins     Drama, Sport      

There are really only two interesting things about "Iron Man" and one of those is of course its title which is now better known for the Marvel comic book character and Robert Downey Jr. The other thing is that this forgotten ...

Horizons West (1952)

81 mins     Western      

The best thing about "Horizons West" is that director Budd Boetticher knows that the storyline is not that amazing and so delivers a western which trots along at a reasonable pace delivering one dramatic scene after another u...

Hellgate (1952)

87 mins     Western      

For wesetern fans "Hellgate" is an entertaining curiosity because whilst it is set in the West it is in fact a prison movie. So what do you get in a Western Prison movie I hear you ask? Well in truth you get many staples of t...

Big Jim McLain (1952)

90 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

On one side of "Big Jim McLain" we have a take on the old wartime spy movie where agents try to uncover who the bad guys are whilst in another country. The take is that we have two agents in Hawaii trying to discover those Un...

Hondo (1953)

83 mins     Action , Drama, Romance      

Hondo (1953) John Wayne stars as Hondo Lane, a man in a fake marriage to the widow of a man he killed in self defence...

Island in the Sky (1953)

109 mins     Adventure , Drama      

It would be fair to say that most people think of John Wayne as starring in either westerns or the occasional army movie and to be honest his career was dominated by these two genres but he did make other sorts of movies whic...

The Sea Chase (1955)

117 mins     Action , Drama, War      

"The Sea Chase" is a good movie but one with a problem, John Wayne. Now the trouble is that not only does it feel plainly wrong to watch John Wayne playing a German but because we basically have John Wayne playing John Wayne,...

The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)

92 mins     Comedy, Western      

Movie Review - The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) Ginger Rogers stars as Rose who finds herself falling in and out of trouble as she heads to Texas to sell barbwire...

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987)

100 mins     TV Movie, Western      

I will put my hand up straight away, not because I have a lawman's gun pointed at me but because I have never watched a single episode of "Gunsmoke". It isn't something I intentionally did but it just happens the old western ...

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)

94 mins     TV Movie, Western      

Having never watched an episode of "Gunsmoke" in my life I wasn't overly impressed with "Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge" and thought twice about watching another one of these movie spin-offs. Fortunately "Gunsmoke: The Last Apache...

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)

91 mins     TV Movie, Western      

That brings me to "Gunsmoke: To the Last Man" a simple movie which has 2 interweaving storylines going on. On one hand we have the retired Matt Dillon after the men who killed his friends and in doing so riding in to a range ...

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)

94 mins     TV Movie, Western      

Fans of Marshal Matt Dillon will probably get some real enjoyment out of "Gunsmoke: The Long Ride" as it is a well made TV movie with James Arness on fine form as the now retired marshal whilst there are some nice supporting ...

Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994)

91 mins     TV Movie, Western      

I will be honest with you, I have has a bit of a love hate relationship with these "Gunsmoke" movies which came in the 90s and I put part of that down to having not grown up on the old TV series when it was popular. And sadly...