Movies starring Bruce Cabot

Ann Vickers (1933)

76 mins     Drama      

"Ann Vickers" is a fascinating social drama based on the novel of Sinclair Lewis although it has to be said a truncated version of his story. That is the first of a few problems with the movie as at just 76 minutes it becomes...

Finishing School (1934)

73 mins     Drama, Romance      

Take a dose of "St. Trinian's" with girls who constantly find ways to bend the rules of their well to do finishing school and then combines with a romance across the social classes with Virginia falling for the working class ...

Angel and the Badman (1947)

100 mins     Romance, Western      

I actually saw the 2009 remake of "Angel and the Badman" before seeing this 1947 John Wayne version and to be honest the 2009 version didn't do much for me. I hoped watching John Wayne along with other old western stars in th...

Gunfighters (1947)

87 mins     Western      

I suppose at one point westerns were like today's comic book movies, there were a variety of actors who were the mainstay but each storyline ended up being pretty similar. That is in many ways the problem with "Gunfighters" a...

Fancy Pants (1950)

92 mins     Comedy, Musical, Western      

Fancy Pants (1950) Bob Hope stars as an actor employed as a butler to help turn a brassy daughter (Lucille Ball) into a lady but is mistaken for an English Earl by the locals...

Best of the Badmen (1951)

84 mins     Western      

"Best of the Badmen" is the sort of cliche western which as a western fan you watch for what it is but it leaves no lasting impression. Now what that means is that we have another western which whilst serving up characters wi...

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

103 mins     Comedy, Western      

In "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" Kenneth More stars alongside Jayne Mansfield as a fish out of water English Gentleman who to his surprise is made sheriff of a town in the wild west....

The Comancheros (1961)

107 mins     Western      

During the making of "The Comancheros" director Michael Curtiz was battling cancer and on the days he was unable to direct the star of the movie John Wayne stood in as director. Now that surprises me because "The Comancheros"...

Hatari! (1962)

157 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama      

The opening scenes of "Hatari!" feature the hunters trying to capture a wild rhino and not only do we see the rhino bashing in to the speeding vehicles but it was reportedly the actors in the vehicles careering along the rut ...

The War Wagon (1967)

96 mins     Action , Western      

Both John Wayne and Kirk Douglas made some great westerns and although the underlying storylines to their westerns were similar what they brought to their movies was different. John Wayne was this no messing hero, the old tim...

The Green Berets (1968)

132 mins     Action , Drama, War      

I will admit I know little about the Vietnam War, I wasn't even in school when in 1975 Acting President of South Vietnam Duong Van Minh surrendered and the subject of the Vietnam War wasn't taught in British schools. Yet I kn...

Hellfighters (1968)

121 mins     Action , Adventure      

As a John Wayne fan I like the "Hellfighters" but have to admit it is a movie which ends up seriously flawed by focusing on the wrong things. What I mean is here we have Wayne playing a fire fighter who tackles oil fire blaze...

The Undefeated (1969)

119 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama, Western      

Half an hour into "The Undefeated" and the set up is done, the pieces are all in place and like with many movies you expect it to then kick into gear. But half an hour later and it's still not got out of neutral and it's only...

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

120 mins     Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi      

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" wasn't a bad Bond movie but as the first of the official franchise not to feature Sean Connery it didn't quite work. So with Connery lured back to be Britain's top agent for "Diamonds Are For...

Big Jake (1971)

110 mins     Western      

Whilst not John Wayne's last western there is something about "Big Jake" which feels like a last hoorah, as if Wayne himself felt that he wouldn't make many more westerns and so do one more with the old gang. By the old gang ...