Cast: Jack Elam
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jack Elam. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 117
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Movie · 165 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Leone
Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti
Synopsis Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain...
8.2
25K votes
8.2
25K votes
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
1973 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Sam Peckinpah
Cast James Coburn · Kris Kristofferson · Jason Robards · L.Q. Jones
Synopsis 1909. Bushwhackers from the politically corrupt Santa Fe Ring gun down New Mexico rancher Pat Garrett (James Coburn) on his own land. 1881. Pat is a friend to and former lawbreaker with William Bonney (Kris Kristofferson). Seeing middle age and...
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange
Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
The Far Country
1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan
Synopsis One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence.
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
The Man from Laramie
1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon
Synopsis Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town,...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
Gunfight at the OK Corral
1957 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming · Jo Van Fleet
Synopsis Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and...
7.5
6K votes
7.5
6K votes
Rancho Notorious
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Arthur Kennedy · Mel Ferrer · Gloria Henry
Synopsis A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
The Last Sunset
1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Rock Hudson · Kirk Douglas · Dorothy Malone · Carol Lynley
Synopsis Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Man Without a Star
1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Kirk Douglas · Jeanne Crain · Claire Trevor · Richard Boone
Synopsis Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East.
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Montgomery Pittman
Cast John Hoyt · Jean Willes · Jack Elam · Barney Phillips
Synopsis Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try and determine who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
7.1
105 votes
7.1
105 votes
Moonfleet
1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Stewart Granger · George Sanders · Joan Greenwood · Viveca Lindfors
7.1
4K votes
7.1
4K votes
Kiss Me Deadly
1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Ralph Meeker · Albert Dekker · Paul Stewart · Juano Hernández
Synopsis Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob.
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Wichita
1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Joel McCrea · Vera Miles · Lloyd Bridges · Wallace Ford
Synopsis Ex-Buffalo Hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Rio Lobo
1970 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast John Wayne · Jennifer O'Neill · Jorge Rivero · Jack Elam
Synopsis After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K 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
Jubal
1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast Glenn Ford · Ernest Borgnine · Rod Steiger · Valerie French
Synopsis Ford plays a drifter who is rescued, then hired as ramrod, by rancher Ernest Borgnine, thereby stimulating the erotic interest of Borgnine's sexy young wife (Valerie French) and the Iago-like resentment of the former top hand (Rod Steiger).
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Rawhide
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Tyrone Power · Susan Hayward · Hugh Marlowe · Edgar Buchanan
Synopsis At an Arizona stagecoach stop, an attendant and a stranded female passenger with her baby are kept hostages by a band of escaped criminals. Their goal is to rob the next shipment of gold that passes the next day.
6.9
581 votes
6.9
581 votes
Vera Cruz
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel
Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
6.9
6K votes
6.9
6K votes
Kansas City Confidential
1952 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast John Payne · Preston Foster · Lee Van Cleef · Coleen Gray
Synopsis Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster. He devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Comancheros
1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast John Wayne · Stuart Whitman · Ina Balin · Nehemiah Persoff
Synopsis 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.
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes