Jim DavisFilmography

The Day Time Ended

Actors: Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, Scott Kolden

Synopsis: In this bargain basement sci-fi film Time Warp-The Day Time Ended, a family moves into their state-of-the-art solar-powered home in an isolated part of the desert to start a new peaceful life. Meanwhile, far away in deep space, three stars simultaneously explode, sending disruptive, time-bending Read More

Bugs Bunny's Mother's Day Special

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The whole gang of Looney Tunes accompanies Bugs as he gives a fun animated tribute to moms. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Dallas: Season 03

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Steadily building up its viewership during its first few seasons, Dallas certainly gives its fans their money's worth during season three, which begins as the newborn son of the delightfully demonic oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and his wife, Sue Ellen (Victoria Principal), is kidnapped. Read More

Dallas: Season 02

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having proven itself as a viewer magnet during its five-episode trial in the spring of 1978, the multi-plotted prime-time serial Dallas launched its second season (and its first "full" one) in the fall of that same year, though it would not be until the series was moved from Saturday to Friday Read More

Comes a Horseman

Actors: James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth

Synopsis: Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man Read More

Dallas: Season 01

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Dallas begins its original five-week trial run as Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest son of Texas oil millionaire Jock Ewing (James Davis), shows up at Southfork, his family's estate, with new bride Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal) in tow. "Your folks are gonna throw me off the ranch" worries Read More

Trail of Danger

Synopsis: In this western, two wranglers must take a herd of starving mustangs over the drought-stricken land. En route, the are attacked by ravenous and thirst-maddened sheepherders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Killing Stone

Synopsis: Michael Landon wrote and directed this pilot film about a writer who is framed for murdering a politician's son; after serving his sentence, he goes in search of the real killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Just a Little Inconvenience

Synopsis: Actor James Stacy, who in real life lost and arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident, won an Emmy award for his performance as double-amputee Kenny Briggs in this made-for-TV movie. Disabled in Vietnam, Kenny is not only embittered by his plight, but also holds his best friend and fellow soldier Read More

The Choirboys

Actors: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior lives of a large crew of callous, bigoted L.A. policemen. These men get together to lend one another emotional support. However, the means they choose for this do not Read More

The Legend of Frank Woods

Synopsis: A quick-shot rifleman with a tragic past seeks refuge in a God-fearing Arizona town, only to discover that there's no running from the way of the gun in directors Hagen Smith andRichard Robinson's bullet-riddled Western. It was self-defense when Frank Woods killed three drunken hoodlums in a Read More

Law of the Land

Synopsis: Charles Martin Smith and Don Johnson highlight the cast of this TV movie about a prostitute-stalking serial killer plaguing the Old West. Johnson and Smith play tough lawmen who set out to capture the murderer. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Satan's Triangle

Actors: Kim Novak

Synopsis: The mysterious Bermuda Triangle is the setting for the 1975 TV movie Satan's Triangle. Kim Novak is washed up (not figuratively but literally) off the coast of Florida. She claims to be the sole survivor of a small fishing boat, whose passengers have inexplicably vanished from the face of the Read More

The Runaway Barge

Synopsis: In this feature-length pilot for an unsold TV series, Bo Hopkins, Tim Matheson and Jim Davis star as Ezel, Owens, and Buckshot, three men carving out a living as the owners of a Mississippi river tugboat. Balancing comedy with melodrama, the story manages to involve our heroes with a gang of Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

Deliver Us From Evil

The Streets of San Francisco: The Hard Breed

Synopsis: The guest-star cast in this episode is studded by several seasoned movie-western veterans, including Jim Davis, Noah Beery Jr and Harry Carey Jr.--not to mention comparative newcomer Sam Elliott. The plot involves a rodeo rider whose biggest professional rival is his own brother. It so happens Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Shattered Image

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) investigate when a successful and universally admired politician dies in what appears to be an accident. As usual, Stone suspects foul play, and isn't afraid of ruffling a few feathers among the political elite to prove his point. The key to the Read More

One Little Indian

Actors: James Garner, Vera Miles, Clay O'Brien

Synopsis: In this comical Disney western, a cavalry rider goes AWOL in the midst of a raid to save the lives of a band of Indian women and children. He then takes off across the New Mexican desert astride a camel. En route, he meets a young white boy who was raised by an Indian. The Indian is trying to find Read More

The Honkers

Actors: James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: The exciting world of rodeo provides the framework for this western saga that centers around a temperamental bronc rider who tries prove himself worthy of his wife, son, and his best friend's respect. He also wants to keep his freedom. Songs include: "Easy Made for Lovin," "My Special Day," "I'm a Read More

Bad Company

Actors: John Boyd

Synopsis: Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern boy, Drew Dixon, who heads West to avoid getting drafted. He falls under the spell of Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), an easygoing young con artist. Drew joins Jake's gang of boy bandits, who live by their wits and try to avoid Read More

The F.B.I.: The Runner

Synopsis: Several future TV headliners appear in guest roles in this, the first episode of The F.B.I.'s eighth season. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) spearheads a search for Clifford Wade (David Soul), an ex-football star turned criminal. Hoping to recapture a vestige of his past celebrity, Wade Read More

The Trackers

Synopsis: A rancher sets out to find the party responsible for killing his son and kidnapping his daughter. He enlists an arrogant professional tracker to help him in his search. Ernest Borgnine and Sammy Davis, Jr. star in this made-for-television western. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: Dynasty of Hate

Synopsis: Rancher Drake Farron (Earl Holliman) has always considered his younger brother James (Bryan Montgomery) to be a thorn in his side. With this in mind, it is only natural that Drake should hire two-bit thug Lee Chard (Henry Silva) to murder his brother. When this scheme goes awry, Chard opts for a Read More

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

Actors: J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: A slapdash epic of bad filmmaking geared strictly toward drive-in audiences, Dracula vs. Frankenstein has gone on to achieve cult status thanks to its sheer ineptness and impressive cast. At an oceanside amusement park, Dr. Frankenstein (J. Carrol Naish) runs a house of horrors that serves as a Read More

Big Jake

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver the $1 million ransom. On the off-chance that there'll be gunplay, Jake brings along his sons Patrick Wayne and Chris Mitchum. Maureen O'Hara plays Read More

Rio Lobo

Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Monte Walsh

Actors: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin ) and his pal Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are two over the hill cowboys seeking work in the town of Harmony, Arizona in the final days of the Old West. They take a job at the ranch of Cal Brennan (Jim Davis) and meet an old friend Shorty (Mitch Ryan). Monte goes off to Read More

Love in Cold Blood

Synopsis: A police investigator examines the murders committed by a criminal who hides the dead bodies in a meat freezer. (AKA Ice House) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Ice House

Synopsis: This disturbing low-budget psycho-thriller stars twins Robert Story and David Story as a serial strangler and his detective brother on opposite sides of the same case. Robert's psychotic aversion to romantic rejection leads to a growing heap of female bodies in his walk-in freezer; David's Read More

Five Bloody Graves

Synopsis: Ben Thompson (Robert Dix) rides through the wilds of Arizona seeking revenge in this violent, low-budget Al Adamson Western. For many years, Thompson has been searching for the Indian who killed his bride on their wedding day, with Death as his only companion. The man he seeks is Satago (John Cardos Read More

Bonanza: The Arrival of Eddie

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Forced to kill the father of young Eddie McKay (Jan-Michael Vincent), Hoss Cartwright tries to make amends by hiring Eddie as a Ponderosa hand. Eddie accepts the job-but only because he has entered into an unholy alliance with rancher Sam Butler (Jim Davis), who also has a grudge against the Read More

They Ran for Their Lives

Synopsis: In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into the desert. She is saved by a helpful stranger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Road Hustlers

Synopsis: A clan of Carolina moonshiners struggle to outsmart the revenuers and deliver their potent brew in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Valley Days: The Oldest Law

El Dorado

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff Robert Mitchum Read More

Border Lust

Fort Utah

Actors: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, John Russell, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local Indians in this western. Fortunately, a former gunslinger and a brave Indian agent ride up to save the imperiled pioneers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is again summoned to Washington by President Grant (William Bryant). This time, Jason is asked to infiltrate a group of insurrectionists who may or may not be plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government. Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has infiltrated a group of insurrectionists who plan to assassinate President Grant. When Jason's cover is blown, the assassins boldly make a public attempt on both his life and Grant's--leaving an incriminating dagger behind. Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Noah Beery, Jr., Victor Jory, Rod Cameron, Dorothy Green

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Goes to Vegas

Actors: Jim Davis, Robert S. Carson, Dick Winslow

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) win a trip to Las Vegas--but not an all-expense-paid trip. Though their hotel rooms and travelling expenses are taken care of, the girls are given not a penny to gamble or see the floor shows. Figuring that they can bluff their way into a few freebies Read More

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Synopsis: William "One Shot" Beaudine's companion piece to the equally nonsensical Billy the Kid vs. Dracula represents a memorable closing to the eccentric "Z"-movie auteur's amusing body of work. The hare-brained concept finds the legendary outlaw Jesse James (John Lupton) stumbling into the decrepit lair Read More

Branded: One Way Out

Synopsis: Approaching a ghost town in answer to a job offer, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) finds he has walked into a trap. The only residents of the town are religious fanatic Joshua Murdock (John Dehner) and his deranged sons Micah (Paul Brent) and Malachi (a pre-Dallas Jim Davis). Convinced that McCord's Read More

Zebra in the Kitchen

Actors: Jay North, Martin Milner, Andy Devine, Joyce Meadows, Jim Davis

Synopsis: When Chris Carlyle's (Jay North) family leaves their farm for the city, Chris must give his pet puma up to the local zoo. When Chris discovers the terrible conditions that the animals are being kept in, he manages to find a way to set all of the creatures free, much to the dismay of the local Read More

Branded: Salute the Soldier Briefly

Synopsis: Michael Rennie guest stars as Charles Briswell, an accused murderer whom Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) rescues from a miner's kangaroo court. Jason's motives aren't entirely humanitarian: Briswell claims to have been a witness at the battle of Bitter Creek, and thus is in a position to clear McCord Read More

Iron Angel

Synopsis: In this wartime drama set during the Korean conflict, a squadron must destroy a North Korean mortar that is blocking a crucial road. En route the soldiers bicker constantly. One of the soldiers suffers two breakdowns. The operation is further hindered by the arrival of a strict Army nurse and her Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of a Place Called Midnight

Synopsis: In a depature from the usual Perry Mason format, Perry (Raymond Burr) flies to Europe as a personal favor to his old friend Frederic Ralston II. Arriving in Switzerland, Perry is asked to check up on Greta Konig (Susanne Cramer), the German nightclub singer who wants to marry Ralston's son Freddy Read More

Any Number Can Win

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance, Carla Marlier, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: Jean Gabin plays Charles, an aging gangster, newly released from prison. In fine Bogart tradition, the unrepentant Charles immediately sets to work planning a major casino heist in Cannes. His go-between for this endeavor is a chorus girl, whom Charles's associate Francis (Alain Delon) beds in Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fickle Filly

Synopsis: Young and wealthy Jennifer Wakely (Joan Freeman) is heartbroken when boyfriend Brad Shelby (Bob McQuain) dumps her to marry the older and wealthier Madelon Haines (Jennifer Howard). As if this wasn't bad enough, Jennifer is told that she has lost all her money and possessions, save for a worn-out Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Treasure

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as escort for Edna Harden (Jeanne Cooper), who is bound for a reunion with her husband, a bank robber recently released from prison. Arriving in a ghost town with Paladin, Edna doesn't find her husband right away, but this doesn't seem to matter in light of the Read More

Frontier Uprising

Actors: James Davis, Nancy Hadley, Ken Mayer, Nestor Paiva, Don O'Kelly

Synopsis: Jim Stockton (James Davis) leads a group of pioneers into California and trouble in this routine western by director Edward L. Cahn. Stockton gets caught up in the battles and grievances between the Mexicans, white Californians, and Native Americans that rage during the 1840s -- the Read More

The Gambler Wore a Gun

Synopsis: In this western, an Eastern gambler buys a mail-order ranch, heads out to claim it and discovers that the deed is unregistered, the rightful owner is dead, and that the land has been taken over by cattle rustlers. Strapping on the title weapon, the fellow rectifies the situation, but only after Read More

Bonanza: The Gift

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Originally scheduled to air on March 18, 1961, the Bonanza episode "The Gift" finally made its first appearance on April 1 of that same year. Determined to capture a white Arabian stallion as a birthday present for his father, Joe Cartwright makes a treacherous desert journey to Yuma, Arizona. Read More

Noose for a Gunman

Actors: Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Jim Davis was light-years away from his role as Larry Hagman's dad on Dallas when he starred in Noose for a Gunman. In this 1960 B oater, Davis is a gunslinger who is appointed town marshal to clean out the criminal element. It isn't long before Davis is kicked out of town on a trumped-up murder Read More

Alias Jesse James

Actors: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

Toughest Gun in Tombstone

Actors: George Montgomery, Beverly Tyler, Don Beddoe, Jim Davis, Scotty Morrow

Synopsis: The Toughest Gun in Tombstone, at least according to this film, as Arizona ranger Matt Sloane (George Montgomery). Working undercover, Sloane infiltrates an all-star outlaw gang consisting of Johnny Ringo (Jim Davis), Ike Clanton (Gerald Milton), Curly Bill Broces (Lane Bradford) and several other Read More

Wolf Dog

Synopsis: Canadian ranchers and farmers battle it out over land use until the courageous canine Prince successfully mediates and restores the peace in this adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monster from Green Hell

Synopsis: The American government inexplicably tries to send a box of wasps into space, but the mission ends when the rocket crashes in Africa. While on an expedition to recover the insects, an adventurer (Jimmy Lynn Davis) and his team finds the wasps have grown to immense proportions due to accidental Read More

Flaming Frontier

Synopsis: In this western a half-Sioux cavalry officer tries to mediate between settlers and the angry Sioux. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Lust To Kill

Synopsis: In this western, an imprisoned outlaw is allowed to attend the funeral of his brother, who was shot down by lawmen. He overpowers his guards with a gun slipped to him by his girlfriend then goes searching for his former partners, whom he blames for his brother's death. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Read More

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

Actors: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Lee Van Cleef, Carl Smith, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Marshal Brennan (Douglas Fowley) lies dying at the outset of this compact western. Fleeing from a posse, an unnamed gunslinger (Jim Davis) stumbles across Brennan's body. Lifting the marshal's badge, he poses as Brennan in a small cattle town. Before long, the impostor is taking his job seriously Read More

Raiders of Old California

Synopsis: In this western set in the Mexican controlled part of California, a villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Quiet Gun

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a Native American girl while his wife is on a trip. The friend is enraged at the accusations and kills the town attorney. He is then lynched by the angry town folk. The sheriff Read More

Guns Don't Argue

Synopsis: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Playhouse 90: Four Women in Black

Actors: Helen Hayes, Ralph Meeker, Katy Jurado, Janice Rule, Narda Onyx

Synopsis: One of several filmed presentations seen on the otherwise "live" TV anthology Playhouse 90, "Four Women in Black" is a western story based on fact. Ralph Meeker plays outlaw Carbine Webb, who while fleeing a posse takes refuge in a covered wagon in the middle of the desert. But Carbine is not Read More

The Restless Breed

Actors: Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen, Rhys Williams, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Another of director Allan Dwan's underrated but well-crafted westerns of the 1950s, The Restless Breed stars Scott Brady as a young gunslinger who lives for revenge. When Brady's father is killed by gun runners, he pursues the villains across the Mexican border. Gang leader Jim Davis, beyond the Read More

Duel at Apache Wells

Actors: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper, Jim Davis, Harry Shannon, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Lensed in Republic's widescreen Naturama process, this modest little western would seem to be better suited to a standard-ratio screen. After a four-year absence, Johnny Shattuck (Ben Cooper) returns home to find that ex-rustler Dean Cannary (Jim Davis) has his eyes on the Shattuck family farm. To Read More

Apache Warrior

Actors: Keith Larsen, Jim Davis, John Miljan, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Eddie Little

Synopsis: Keith Larsen stars as the Apache Kid, an Indian scout. He is willing to cooperate with the US cavalry until his brother is killed by another Native American. The Apache Kid is permitted to seek revenge under tribal law, but white law does not recognize this ruling; as a result the Kid is branded a Read More

The Last Stagecoach West

Synopsis: In this western, a good man becomes an outlaw after his stagecoach mail business falls to the faster railroad mail. To save his livelihood, the fellow literally attempts to derail his competitor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bottom of the Bottle

Actors: Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson, Maggie Hayes

Synopsis: Two brothers face their personal demons in this crime melodrama. Donald Martin (Van Johnson) is an alcoholic criminal who has escaped from prison and needs help crossing the Mexican border to freedom. Desperate, he arrives at the ranch of his lawyer brother Martin (Joseph Cotten). Martin has Read More

Blonde Bait

Actors: Beverly Michaels, Jim Davis, Joan Rice, Richard Travis, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: Tired of the humdrum routine at a staid British woman's prison, brassy American chorine Angela Booth (Beverly Michaels) busts out. Scotland Yard decides to allow Angela to roam free, hoping that she'll lead them to her partner in crime, who unbeknownst to her is a notorious traitor and killer. Read More

The Wild Dakotas

Synopsis: The fraternal filmmaking team of produced Sigmund Neufeld and director Sam Newfield once again joined forces on The Wild Dakotas. Made some two years after the "official" demise of the "B" western, the film attempts to revive the genre with a new cowboy star, one Will Williams. In keeping with the Read More

Last of the Desperadoes

Actors: James Craig, Jim Davis, Barton MacLane, Margia Dean, Donna Martel

Synopsis: James Craig plays Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who gunned down Billy the Kid. We always thought that was the end of the story, but Last of the Desperados informs us that Garrett was forced to flee from the vengeance of Billy's gang (we also never knew that Billy had a gang). Everywhere he Read More

Frontier Gambler

Synopsis: Just before achieving TV stardom as The Sheriff of Cochise, John Bromfield headed the cast of Frontier Gambler. Coleen Gray co-stars as the ruthless boss lady of a frontier town. When Gray disappears, suspicion immediately falls upon her former lover Bromfield. Others who had reasons to see Gray Read More

Timberjack

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged lumbermen who vie for the attentions of Lynn Tilton (Vera Ralston). The richer and more powerful of the two, Brunner would Read More

The Vanishing American

Actors: Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production. Eliminating Grey's premise that the American Indian's downfall was all part of Nature's scheme of things, the film begins in the late 19th century, with Scott Brady starring as Read More

Hell's Outpost

Actors: Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, John Russell, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This "modern" western stars Rod Cameron as opportunistic Korean war veteran Tully Gibbs. Posing as a friend of the late son of mine owner Kevin Russel (Chill Wills), Tully intends to work the mine for all it's worth and then pull out. By and by, Tully slowly turns honest, but the same cannot be Read More

Stories of the Century: Season 02

Actors: Jim Davis, Mary Castle

The Last Command

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas the earlier film concerned itself with the exploits of Texas patriot Sam Houston, Last Command concentrates on Houston associate James Bowie, played by Sterling Hayden. When Read More

The Maverick Queen

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Howard Petrie

Synopsis: Based on a Zane Grey novel published over a decade after the author's death, The Maverick Queen stars Barbara Stanwyck in the title role. As head of the outlaw gang called The Wild Bunch, Kit Banion (Stanwyck) wreaks havoc on the banks and railroads of the West. Pinkerton detective Jeff (Barry Read More

Stories of the Century: Rube Burrows

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Jim Courtright

Actors: Jim Davis

Jubilee Trail

Actors: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Ray Middleton, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to add to his riches by marrying off his brother Read More

Stories of the Century: Clay Allison

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Tiburcio Vasquez

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Doc Holiday

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Joaquin Murietta

Actors: Jim Davis

The Outcast

Actors: John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis, Catherine McLeod, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: Jet Cosgrave (John Derek) is The Outcast in this big-budget Republic western. Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave (Jim Davis), Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear Read More

Stories of the Century: Cattle Kate

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Quantrill and His Raiders

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century [TV Series]

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: Black Jack Ketchum

Actors: Jim Davis

The Outlaw's Daughter

Actors: Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Kelly Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., George Cleveland

Synopsis: Newcomer Kelly Ryan plays Kate, The Outlaw's Daughter, in this medium-scale western. Led astray by outlaw leader Jess (Bill Williams), Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan (Jim Davis) tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Read More

The Big Chase

Synopsis: A young police officer tries his best to assuage the fears of his pregnant wife by refusing dangerous new jobs. But despite his caution, he has a job to do and he ends up chasing a dangerous thief all the way to Mexico in a helicopter. This actioner chronicles his death-defying adventures. Read More

Stories of the Century: Frank and Jesse James

Actors: Jim Davis

Stories of the Century: John Wesley Hardin

Actors: Jim Davis

Ride the Man Down

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it contains. When owner Phil Evarts dies suddenly, the speculation in the territory is that Hatcher will be broken up, especially since it was Evarts' determination coupled with Read More

The President's Lady

Actors: Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire, Fay Bainter, Ralph Dumke

Synopsis: The President's Lady is an historical drama starring Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson and Susan Hayward as his wife Rachel, Jackson marries Rachel after she divorces her unfaithful first husband (Whitfield Connor), with scandal resulting when the ex-husband refuses to finalize the divorce. Read More

The Woman They Almost Lynched

Actors: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers spellbound throughout. Part of the tension arises from fact that there are two leading female characters: Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate Read More

The Big Sky

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Hank Worden

Synopsis: The Big Sky is based on a popular novel by A.B. Guthrie. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first keelboat trip up the Missouri River way back in 1830. Joining Douglas and Martin are Martin's grizzled old uncle Arthur Hunnicutt and garrulous Read More

Rose of Cimarron

Actors: Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers considers herself a Native American and regards all whites as her enemies. Her feelings are justified to an extent when outlaws kill her Indian parents. Realizing she can't Read More

Woman of the North Country

Actors: Ruth Hussey, Rod Cameron, John Agar, Gale Storm, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of Minnesota mining magnate David Powell (John Agar). Using her feminine wiles, Christine tries to undermine her brother's competition by romancing rival mine owner Kyle Ramlo (Rod Cameron Read More

The Sea Hornet

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under mysterious circumstances, McNeil investigates, all the while carrying out a salvage assignment for the lovely Suntan Radford (Adele Mara). The titular Sea Hornet is a vessel which Read More

Cavalry Scout

Actors: Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim Davis, James Millican, James Arness

Synopsis: Rod Cameron heads the cast of the Monogram "B-plus" western Cavalry Scout. Cameron plays army scout Kirby Frye, who has been assigned to track down a stolen cache of weaponry. Frye suspects that local troublemaker Martin Gavin (James Millican) is the criminal mastermind, but he needs proof. The Read More

Silver Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Jim Davis, Bob Steele

Synopsis: This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie (Jim Davis). Read More

Little Big Horn

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor, Reed Hadley, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Ninety per cent of Little Big Horn takes place before Custer's Last Stand; thus, the emphasis is on character and suspense rather than spectacle (just as well, since spectacle was well out of the range of parsimonious Lippert Studios). Lloyd Bridges heads a small band of cavalrymen who desperately Read More

Oh! Susanna

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, William Ching

Synopsis: Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time (90 minutes, as compared to the usual "B"-picture length of 60 or 70 minutes). Rod Cameron stars as Captain Calhoun, a cavalry officer dedicated to protecting the rights of Read More

Hi-Jacked

Actors: Jim Davis, Marsha Jones, Sid Melton, David Bruce, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: Jim Davis, better known to contemporary audiences as Josh Ewing, J.R.'s (Larry Hagman) father on Dallas, is the two-fisted star of 1950's Hi-Jacked. Davis plays truck driver Joe Harper, who after his rig is stolen is accused of masterminding the theft himself. To clear his name, Joe sets out on Read More

The Cariboo Trail

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana. Crooked Victor Jory and his minions stampede the cattle, causing Scott's partner Bill Williams to lose an arm. Out of a job, Scott gives gold mining a try, but even here he is Read More

California Passage

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodriguez, Jim Davis, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine Western produced and directed by the dependent Joseph Kane. Mara plays Beth Martin, an Easterner traveling west to be reunited with her brother, Bob (Bill Williams). But Bob Read More

3 Desperate Men

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Ross Latimer, William Haade, Monte Blue

Synopsis: Lippert Studio's first 1951 release was the compact western 3 Desperate Men. The title characters are the Denton Brothers, played by Preston S. Foster, Jim Davis and Ross Latimer. Accused of crimes they didn't commit, the Dentons are obliged to become outlaws to survive. So long as they stay away Read More

The Savage Horde

Actors: Adrian Booth, Grant Withers, Barbara Fuller, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo, who, though no paragon of virtue, is not a murderer. After killing a man in self-defense, Ringo takes it on the lam from the law. Hiding out in a remote frontier town, Ringo Read More

Peggy

Actors: Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Lawrence, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calfornia. Also competing is Peggy's sister Susan (Barbara Lawrence). Both girls make the trek from Ohio to Pasadena in the company of their father (Charles Coburn), a Read More

The Showdown

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marie Windsor, Walter Brennan, Henry Morgan, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Showdown is the story of a trail boss named Shad Jones (Bill Elliott) whose younger brother is murdered. Knowing that a member of a wagon train is responsible for the killing, Shad joins the train in attempt to discover who the guilty man is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Charles Coburn, Gloria de Haven, Joshua Shelley, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: One of the better Universal "budget" musicals of the postwar era, Yes Sir, That's My Baby serves as an excellent showcase for Donald O'Connor. The timely script concerns the problems facing ex-GIs as they adjust to marriage, parenthood, and (thanks to the GI Bill) college life. William Waldo Read More

Red Stallion in the Rockies

Actors: Arthur Franz, Wallace Ford, Ray Collins, Jean Heather

Synopsis: Hoping to shed itself of the onus of its low-budget predecessor PRC Pictures, Eagle-Lion productions occasionally invested in such above-average endeavors as Red Stallion in the Rockies. Color-filmed on location in Colorado, the story revolves around a former circus horse who has escaped to the Read More

Brimstone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Walter Brennan, Forrest Tucker, Jack Holt

Synopsis: The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western filmed in Republic Pictures' Trucolor system. Walter Brennan plays Pop "Brimstone" Courteen, an ornery rancher who avenges the loss of the free range by robbing stagecoaches Read More

Hellfire

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Western star William Elliot always insisted that his idol was silent-film cowboy William S. Hart. Elliot's Hellfire, then, can be seen as his tribute to the 1916 Bill Hart classic Hell's Hinges. Elliot plays a hard-bitten frontier gambler whose life is saved by a preacher. When the preacher dies Read More

Winter Meeting

Actors: Bette Davis, Jim Davis, James Davis, John Hoyt, Florence Bates

Synopsis: The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises: Bette Davis and Jim Davis (whose only "A"-picture starring role this was). Bette D. plays disenchanted poetess Susan Grieve, while Jim D. is cast as disillusioned war hero Read More

The Fabulous Texan

Actors: Roy Barcroft, Robert H. Barrat, George Beban, Jr., James Brown, John Carroll

Synopsis: Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter films have their adherents. In The Fabulous Texan, Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the role of ex-Confederate officer Jim McWade. Returning to Texas to find his home Read More

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Actors: Van Johnson, Joyce Arling, Janet Leigh, James Bell, William Bishop, Thomas Mitchell, Jim Davis, Charles Dingle

Synopsis: Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted musical, the film is actually a fairly sober adaptation (with slight comic undertones) of a novel by Mackinlay Kantor. In the days following the Civil War, a Missouri farming Read More

The Beginning or the End

Actors: Warner Anderson, Brian Donlevy, Art Baker, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Trevor Bardette, James Bush, Audrey Totter, Joseph Calleia, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and deployment of the Atom Bomb. Step by step, the film details the progress of The Manhattan Project, from its inception in the early stages of the war through the dawn of the Read More

Gallant Bess

Actors: Marshall Thompson, George Tobias, Clem Bevans, Donald Curtis, Murray Alper

Synopsis: According to the MGM publicity department, Gallant Bess was based on a true story, as told by Naval Reserve officer Marvin Park. Bess is a beautiful mare owned by young Tex (Marshall Thompson), who runs a stock ranch. When Tex joins the Seabees at the outbreak of WW2, he is forced to leave Bess Read More

Up Goes Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke, Horace McNally, Ray Collins

Synopsis: MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere. Our heroine manages to secure a job as secretary to inventor Joseph Morton (George Murphy), who has developed a revolutionary new helicopter. A rival aircraft Read More

What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

Actors: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter, Chill Wills, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove suffers from that common movie malady known as Sequelitis, meaning that it's not quite as good as its predecessor. U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) finds himself at large in wartime France -- or at least the MGM Read More

Salute to the Marines

Actors: William Lundigan, Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Keye Luke, Ray Collins

Synopsis: In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing the line while they are stationed in the Philippines at the beginning of WW II. The tough-as-nails jarhead does have a terrible secret though--he has never been involved in Read More

Pilot No. 5

Actors: Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in Java who volunteers for a suicide mission. He is chosen from five possible Allied candidates, hence the title. We learn via flashback just why Tone holds his life at so low Read More

Swing Shift Maisie

Actors: Jim Davis, Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen

Synopsis: In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the swing shift in an airplane factory. Taking in a seemingly suicidal co-worker, Iris (Jean Rogers), Maisie can only watch as the girl steals her beau, handsome pilot James Read More

Tennessee Johnson

Actors: Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's Read More

Safari

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Tullio Carminatti, Muriel Angelus, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: This studio-bound jungle yarn is uplifted by the spirited performances of its stars. After the death of her aviator lover, beautiful Linda Stewart (Madeleine Carroll) marries wealthy sportsman Baron de Courland (Tulio Carminati) on the rebound. When the Baron arrives in Africa for a hunting Read More

Ninja Force of Assassins

Synopsis: In this actioner, a pair of spies are fast friends until they go to Southeast Asia and get tangled up with a powerful ninja master of crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stories of the Century: Sam Bass

Actors: Jim Davis