Cast: James Arness
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Arness. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Wagon Master
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Ben Johnson · Joanne Dru · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond
Plot As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Christian Nyby · Howard Hawks
Cast Margaret Sheridan · Kenneth Tobey · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer
Plot Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back...
7.0
8K votes
7.0
8K votes
How the West Was Won (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · min. · United States
Direction Burt Kennedy · Daniel Mann
Cast James Arness · Eva Marie Saint · Bruce Boxleitner · Kathryn Holcomb
Plot In 1865, the Macahans are heading west from Virginia to Oregon. Mrs. Kate Macahan is waiting with her children Laura, Jessie and Josh on a farm they have built for...
7.0
25 votes
7.0
25 votes
How the West Was Won (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Bernard McEveety
Cast James Arness · Bruce Boxleitner · Fionnula Flanagan · Kathryn Holcomb
7.0
39 votes
7.0
39 votes
How the West Was Won (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 82 min. · United States
Direction Bernard McEveety · Barry Crane · Vincent McEveety · Alf Kjellin
Cast Ricardo Montalban · James Arness · Christopher Lee · Vicki Schreck
7.0
167 votes
7.0
167 votes
Them!
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast James Whitmore · Edmund Gwenn · Joan Weldon · James Arness
Plot That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
The People Against O'Hara
1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak
Plot James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found...
6.6
294 votes
6.6
294 votes
Hondo
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast John Wayne · Geraldine Page · Ward Bond · Michael Pate
Plot Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Carbine Williams
1952 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast James Stewart · Jean Hagen · Wendell Corey · Carl Benton Reid
Plot This is the story of David Marshall 'Marsh' Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine automatic riffle used in WWII. It all started when Marsh, who...
6.3
100 votes
6.3
100 votes
Horizons West
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Robert Ryan · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire
6.3
484 votes
6.3
484 votes
The Sea Chase
1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast John Wayne · Lana Turner · David Farrar · Lyle Bettger
Plot As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.
6.1
540 votes
6.1
540 votes
Gunsmoke (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen · Harry Harris · Ted Post · Bernard McEveety
Cast James Arness · Milburn Stone · Amanda Blake · Ken Curtis
Plot TV Series (1955-1975). 20 Seasons. 635 Episodes. Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the...
6.1
88 votes
6.1
88 votes
Island In The Sky
1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast John Wayne · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Abel · James Arness
Plot A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley (Wayne), must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
6.0
399 votes
6.0
399 votes
Many Rivers to Cross
1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · Victor McLaglen · Jeff Richards
Plot A coonskin-hat-wearing, fur-trapping frontiersmen (Robert Taylor) is set on making his fortune in the Northwest Territory. But that's easier said the done, especially when he passes through Barren River, Kentucky,...
6.0
322 votes
6.0
322 votes
Hellgate
1952 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Charles Marquis Warren
Cast Sterling Hayden · Joan Leslie · Ward Bond · James Arness
Plot A man is accused of spying for the confedaracy, and sentenced to the notorious Hellgate Prison. After he unsuccessfully attempts to breakout, and is sentenced to solitary confinement, he redeems...
5.8
56 votes
5.8
56 votes
The Lone Hand
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Joel McCrea · Barbara Hale · Jimmy Hunt · Alex Nicol
5.7
121 votes
5.7
121 votes
Wyoming Mail
1950 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Le Borg
Cast Stephen McNally · Alexis Smith · Ed Begley · James Arness
Plot In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the...
5.6
87 votes
5.6
87 votes
Gun the Man Down
1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast James Arness · Angie Dickinson · Robert J. Wilke · Emile Meyer
Plot Three outlaw buddies rob a bank, but one of them is wounded. His two partners and his girlfriend take his share of the loot and run off, leaving him to...
5.6
84 votes
5.6
84 votes
Double Crossbones
1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Donald O´Connor · Helena Carter · Will Geer · John Emery
Plot Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty...
5.2
38 votes
5.2
38 votes
Big Jim McLain
1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast John Wayne · Nancy Olson · James Arness · Alan Napier
Plot U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii.
4.0
64 votes
4.0
64 votes