Highest-ranked title
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Jack Elam has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Once Upon a Time in the West.
Return of the Seven
1966
Western
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included
Kansas City Confidential
1952 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included
Vera Cruz
1954 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%MGM+ · Included
The Way West
1967 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Prime Video · Included
Rio Lobo
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 61%MGM+ · Included
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Dir. Phil Karlson · With John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
Dir. Frank Tashlin · With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.
Dir. Hal Needham · With Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Ben Johnson, Michael Landon Jr., Emily Warfield
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Simpson wants the money and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
Dir. Hal Needham · With Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger
as Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall
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