Movies starring Woody Strode

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

97 mins     Action , Drama, War      

I've come up with a theory, the better known a war the better known the war movie. Or at least that is my explanation as to why "Pork Chop Hill" isn't a better known movie as most people know about WWII and Vietnam but not so...

Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

111 mins     Drama, Western      

"Sergeant Rutledge" is an interesting movie because it is slightly different to what you expect from a John Ford western. What makes it slightly different is that it takes the form of a courtroom drama, a court martial of a b...

Genghis Khan (1965)

127 mins     Adventure , Drama      

It is 50 years since director Henry Levin made "Genghis Khan" and much has changed in the world of cinema in those interceding years which means when you watch "Genghis Khan" for the first time now it is a very different expe...

The Professionals (1966)

117 mins     Western      

"The Professionals" is one of the smartest westerns I have ever watched, I don't mean just in having an interesting storyline but also in the way Richard Brooks directs. Consider when "The Professionals" was made, it was a ti...

Shalako (1968)

113 mins     Western      

As a rule I enjoy westerns but yet I always seem to struggle with the westerns of the 60s which had heavy European influences. I don't mean the spaghetti westerns but the likes of "Shalako" which feature a dominant European c...

Boot Hill (1969)

100 mins     Comedy, Western      

I have watched "Boot Hill" twice now although it took some convincing by a friend to sacrifice another 100 minutes on this movie. You see when I first watched it I really disliked it for various reasons. One of those is that ...

Keoma (1976)

105 mins     Western      

If I was to change the name Keoma to something like Bill Smith and swapped Franco Nero for say Richard Widmark and this mid 70s western would sound routine. It certainly has a mostly routine story with a man who has been away...