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Slim Pickens has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Rooster Cogburn
1975
Adventure · Drama
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
The Howling
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Disney+ · Included
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 42%Starz · Included
The White Buffalo
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 81%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Black Hole
1979 · Movie · Voice
Top 82%Disney+ · Included
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After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, Slim Pickens
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Dir. Norman Tokar · With Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Harry Morgan
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Dir. Marlon Brando · With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.
Dir. William Wiard · With Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.
Dir. Gary Nelson · With Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
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