best old movies
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1. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Passed | 104 min | Western
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Votes: 19,322
2. My Darling Clementine (1946)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western
After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs
Votes: 25,753
3. Shane (1953)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western
A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 44,136 | Gross: $20.00M
4. To Hell and Back (1955)
Approved | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly
Votes: 5,963
5. Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his father and brother are murdered by a corrupt lawyer and sheriff duo, railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara plans his revenge, and is aided by former outlaw Whitey Kincade.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane
Votes: 1,450
6. Gunsmoke (1953)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A young gunslinger tries to help a rancher and his daughter save their land and cattle from an evil, wealthy land owner.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Paul Kelly, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,319
7. Showdown (1963)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake, Harold J. Stone
Votes: 697
8. Bad Boy (1949)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS! Danny is a juvenile delinquent sentenced to Variety Club Ranch in lieu of jail. He charms the headmistress and goads everyone else. The marshal sets out to ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
Votes: 395
9. War Is Hell (1961)
81 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, a glory-hunting sergeant leads his platoon on a mission against the enemy--not telling them that a cease-fire has just been declared--so that he can win medals. ... See full summary »
Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Tony Russel, Baynes Barron, Burt Topper, Judy Dan
Votes: 141
10. Trunk to Cairo (1965)
80 min | Drama
A James Bond-type action hero is assigned to destroy a weapons factory run by a fugitive Nazi.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Audie Murphy, George Sanders, Marianne Koch, Gila Almagor
Votes: 213
11. Sierra (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Western
A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,081
12. The Quiet American (1958)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll
Votes: 2,102
13. Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
76 min | Comedy, Romance
A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet cute and fall in love.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Michael Chekhov
Votes: 429
14. Beyond Glory (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready, George Coulouris
Votes: 296
15. Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
Approved | 82 min | Western
Mistaken for a murderous outlaw, an innocent passerby is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by catching the real culprit.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally, Robert Middleton
Votes: 1,240
16. Six Black Horses (1962)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Joan O'Brien, George D. Wallace
Votes: 960
17. World in My Corner (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Up and coming ambitious boxer Tommy Shea must choose between making dishonest money with crooked promoter Harry Cram or honestly winning a title, as advised by his manager Dave Bernstein.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, John McIntire
Votes: 330
18. Joe Butterfly (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
American soldiers in occupied Tokyo get mixed up with a conniving black-marketeer.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Keiko Shima
Votes: 294
19. Battle at Bloody Beach (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, American civilian Craig Benson helps organizing the Philippine guerrilla fighters, delivering supplies and evacuating stranded civilians.
Director: Herbert Coleman | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels, Alejandro Rey
Votes: 514
20. Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Approved | 90 min | Western
In 1875 a murderous outlaw gang breaks criminals from jail, uses them to help in crimes, and then kills them for the reward, when it goes high enough.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 846
21. Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Western
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner, James Best
Votes: 745
22. Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
Passed | 87 min | Western
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson, John McIntire
Votes: 1,289
23. Apache Rifles (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Western
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 3,347
24. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano
Votes: 4,837
25. Gunpoint (1966)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Western
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 883
26. Column South (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Western
Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins
Votes: 729
27. A Time for Dying (1969)
M | 72 min | Drama, Western
In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie are married by Judge Roy Bean in a shotgun wedding but their honeymoon is marred by outlaws.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Robert Random, Beatrice Kay
Votes: 709
28. The Quick Gun (1964)
Approved | 87 min | Western
Gunslinger Clint Cooper returns to his hometown to help fight off a raid by his former gang.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Audie Murphy, Merry Anders, James Best, Ted de Corsia
Votes: 970
29. Bullet for a Badman (1964)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee, Beverley Owen
Votes: 1,081
30. The Gun Runners (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Cuban misadventures of a Florida smuggler, at the time of the Cuban Revolution.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloane
Votes: 871
31. 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defeat them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but they're stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Burns, Kenneth Tobey, Laraine Stephens
Votes: 1,183
32. Kansas Raiders (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady
Votes: 1,352
33. The Texican (1966)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A former Texas sheriff, living in Mexico, goes to Arizona to investigate the murky circumstances under which his brother, a peaceful newspaperman, was killed.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys, Aldo Sambrell
Votes: 934
34. The Kid from Texas (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Western
In New Mexico, Billy the Kid is involved in the Lincoln County War, kills many rivals and eventually becomes a wanted fugitive.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 797
35. Posse from Hell (1961)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Western
Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.
Director: Herbert Coleman | Stars: Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert, Vic Morrow
Votes: 1,299
36. Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Western
Fugitive bank robber Joe Maybe steals the identity of a marshal and rides into a town whose judge asks Joe to act as town marshal but an old flame almost betrays his real identity forcing Joe to claim she's his wife.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva
Votes: 1,271
37. Night Passage (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster
Votes: 4,544
38. Drums Across the River (1954)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye
Votes: 1,088
39. Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,107
40. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Marshal Tyrone and the Silver Kid form an uneasy alliance against a gang of claim jumpers.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot
Votes: 1,898
41. The Cimarron Kid (1952)
Passed | 84 min | Western
Unjustly accused of robbing the train he was riding home, Bill Doolin re-joins his old gang, participates in other robberies and becomes a wanted outlaw.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Duguay
Votes: 1,144
42. No Name on the Bullet (1959)
Passed | 77 min | Western
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans, Virginia Grey
Votes: 3,060
43. The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Western
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Jim Backus
Votes: 955
44. Destry (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,635
45. The Unforgiven (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon
Votes: 9,730
46. Arizona Raiders (1965)
Approved | 97 min | Western
When Quantrill's (Quantrell) gang is almost destroyed two of the captured members agree to join the Arizona Rangers to help finish the job.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Ben Cooper, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 1,265
47. Tumbleweed (1953)
Passed | 79 min | Western
When a wagon train is wiped-out by the Yaqui Indians, the surviving guide Jim Harvey is accused of desertion and cowardice but Jim escapes the town jail in search of the truth.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts
Votes: 1,007
48. The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Romance, War
Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a rag tag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 1,621
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