Movies starring James Best

Kansas Raiders (1950)

80 mins     Western      

"Kansas Raiders" might feature several well known names from the archives of the old west it is by no means a movie built on fact. Nope "Kansas Raiders" is one of those movies which not only writes its own history but distort...

Comanche Territory (1950)

76 mins     Western      

Comanche Territory (1950) Maureen O'Hara & Macdonald Carey star in this western about trouble between some locals and the nearby Comanche when silver is found on Comanche territory...

Apache Drums (1951)

75 mins     Western      

For the most "Apache Drums" is your standard 50s western, a cliche filled movie which has cowboys, Indians and a romantic subplot. But there is something about this little western which is better than the norm and it i...

The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)

85 mins     Western      

"Broken Arrow" is widely known as a groundbreaking movie for portraying Native Indians not purely as savages whilst telling the story of peace talks in the early 1870s. Two years later came "The Battle at Apache Pass" which w...

The Cimarron Kid (1952)

84 mins     Western      

The Cimarron Kid (1952) Audie Murphy stars as the Cimarron Kid who finds himself riding with the Dalton gang despite trying to go straight...

Column South (1953)

82 mins     Western      

If you are an honorary member of the Audie Murphy fan club then "Column South" will be an entertaining western with Murphy playing an easy to like good guy. But if you are not bothered by Murphy then "Column South" is just a ...

Ride Lonesome (1959)

73 mins     Western      

"Ride Lonesome" is one of the best movies I have seen and to some that will be a surprise because unlike many movies it only has a running time of 73 minutes. But "Ride Lonesome" has so much going for it from Budd Boetticher'...

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)

82 mins     Western      

"It is what it is" is a phrase which I have never liked but some times it just happens to be the perfect phrase to describe a movie and it is perfect to describe "Cast a Long Shadow". Here is an Audie Murphy from 1959 which s...

The Mountain Road (1960)

102 mins     Drama, War      

I believe James Stewart refused to do war movies as they were never accurate to how it was. Well in 1960 he did make one war movie, the hard to get hold of and rarely broadcast "The Mountain Road" and unsurprisingly it is not...

The Quick Gun (1964)

87 mins     Western      

The Quick Gun (1964) Audie Murphy stars as notorious gun fighter Clint Cooper who returns to his home town to warn them that they are about to be attacked by an outlaw gang. Trouble is that Clint isn't welcome in town and no ...

Firecreek (1968)

104 mins     Western      

James Stewart made a surprising amount of westerns and whilst the likes of "The Man from Laramie" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" are some of his better known, those lesser known ones such as "Firecreek" are by no mean...

Hooper (1978)

99 mins     Action , Comedy      

Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham made 6 movies together starting with "Smokey and the Bandit" in 1977 and ending with "Cannonball Run II" in 1984 and to start with the movies worked. But in a way Reynolds fell victim to...

The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)

81 mins     Comedy, TV Movie      

Movie Review - The Sweeter Side of Life (2013) Kathryn Morris stars as Desiree who finds herself going from a life of luxury to being broken and homeless when her husband divorces her. It leads her back to her father, Paddy (...