Cast: Chill Wills

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


Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gene Tierney · Cornel Wilde · Jeanne Crain · Vincent Price

Synopsis Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of anyone who he pays the slightest attention to. In order...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K 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 Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973) is a gritty Western that explores the complex friendship and eventual confrontation between Sheriff Pat Garrett and the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid. Set in the fading days of the Old West, the...

7.6

8K votes

7.6

8K votes

Giant

1956 · Movie · 201 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Rock Hudson · James Dean · Carroll Baker

Synopsis Giant (1956) follows the epic saga of the Benedict family, spanning decades in Texas. When wealthy rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict marries socialite Leslie Lynnton, their lives intertwine with the vast, rugged landscape of the Benedict ranch. As they navigate cultural...

7.4

24K votes

7.4

24K votes

The Westerner

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone

Synopsis "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Rio Grande

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Ben Johnson · Chill Wills

Synopsis The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises:...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

From Hell to Texas

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Don Murray · Diane Varsi · Chill Wills · Dennis Hopper

Synopsis A spare, almost austere western, From Hell to Texas stars Don Murray as a carefree cowpoke. Accidentally killing the son of a powerful land baron (R. G. Armstrong), Murray runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers....

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

The Yearling

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Gregory Peck · Jane Wyman · Claude Jarman Jr. · Chill Wills

Synopsis Clarence Brown directed this award-winning adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a poor pioneer family struggling to eke out a living in the Florida backwoods--and the coming of age of a young boy. After the Civil War,...

6.8

718 votes

6.8

718 votes

Boom Town

1940 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Spencer Tracy · Claudette Colbert · Hedy Lamarr

Synopsis Two friends who hit gushers in the oil fields find themselves in opposition when money, women, and shady businessmen get in the way.

6.6

315 votes

6.6

315 votes

I'll Be Seeing You

1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle · George Cukor

Cast Ginger Rogers · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple · Spring Byington

Synopsis Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites him home for dinner.

6.6

260 votes

6.6

260 votes

The Alamo

1960 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction John Wayne

Cast John Wayne · Richard Widmark · Laurence Harvey · Ken Curtis

Synopsis THE ALAMO is John's Wayne's patriotic, pro-American recounting of the famous siege at a Texas fort. For 13 days in 1836, a group of Americans, led by Sam Houston, fought 7,000 Mexican soldiers to retain control of the Alamo and...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

City That Never Sleeps

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Gig Young · Mala Powers · William Talman · Edward Arnold

Synopsis Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for exotic dancer Sally "Angel Face" Connors. When Penrod Biddel, a...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

Western Union

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore

Synopsis While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had an accident with a horse. In 1861, Vance regenerates and...

6.4

680 votes

6.4

680 votes

The Man From the Alamo

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.2

824 votes

6.2

824 votes

That Wonderful Urge

1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Robert B. Sinclair

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · Reginald Gardiner · Arleen Whelan

Synopsis An investigative reporter uses a ruse to meet Sara Fowler, a grocery-store heiress he's been writing unflattering things about. He gets her to start talking about herself and finds her down-to-earth and engaging, but before he can publish an honest...

6.1

110 votes

6.1

110 votes

Red Canyon

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Ann Blyth · Howard Duff · George Brent · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and 1959. Howard Duff plays wandering cowpoke Lin Sloane, who spends most of the film trying to capture a fabled wild stallion. While thus occupied,...

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

The Harvey Girls

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Judy Garland · John Hodiak · Ray Bolger · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis A frothy musical about the romantic misadventures of the Harvey girls, waitresses employed by the Old West Harvey Restaurant chain. Their ladylike behavior had a civilizing effect on their wild frontier patrons. Despite the rather thin story, the great cast...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

Gun Glory

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Stewart Granger · Rhonda Fleming · Chill Wills · Steve Rowland

Synopsis Granger plays a gallant gunslinger whose town is endangered when cattlemen threaten to run a large herd through its farmlands.

5.9

319 votes

5.9

319 votes

Gun for a Coward

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jeffrey Hunter · Janice Rule · Chill Wills

Synopsis A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in...

5.8

157 votes

5.8

157 votes