Cast: Jack Elam

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jack Elam. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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