Direction: Burt Kennedy

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Burt Kennedy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Burt Kennedy · Daniel Mann

Cast James Arness · Eva Marie Saint · Bruce Boxleitner · Kathryn Holcomb

Synopsis 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 her husband and her oldest son Luke to return from...

7.0

25 votes

7.0

25 votes

Combat! (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bernard McEveety · John Peyser · Sutton Roley · Michael Caffey

Cast Vic Morrow · Rick Jason · Pierre Jalbert · Jack Hogan

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1967). 152 episodes. Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the show offered character studies of men striving to maintain their...

6.9

114 votes

6.9

114 votes

The War Wagon

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Howard Keel · Robert Walker Jr.

Synopsis Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot him 5 years ago to join forces against Pierce and...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Money Trap

1965 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Glenn Ford · Elke Sommer · Rita Hayworth · Joseph Cotten

Synopsis When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves.

5.8

122 votes

5.8

122 votes

The Rounders

1965 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Glenn Ford · Henry Fonda · Chill Wills · Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda play two bronc busters in the pickup-driving West who, by their own admission, "ain't exactly the smartest cowboys that ever lived." Somehow they always end up owing rancher Jim Ed Love (Chill Wills) one more...

5.8

363 votes

5.8

363 votes

The Train Robbers

1973 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast John Wayne · Ann-Margret · Rod Taylor · Ben Johnson

Synopsis After her husband dies in disrepute, an attractive widow (Ann-Margret) hires gunslinger Lane (John Wayne) to recover a cache of stolen gold and clear her family name. The two set out for Mexico in search of the loot, but the...

5.7

884 votes

5.7

884 votes

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast James Garner · Joan Hackett · Walter Brennan · Harry Morgan

Synopsis McCullough is "passing through on my way to Australia" when he takes a job in a gold rush town. After a startling display of marksmanship he immediately arrests the youngest son of the evil landowner (Danby). A battle of hired...

5.7

366 votes

5.7

366 votes

The Deserter (The Devil's Backbone)

1971 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Niksa Fulgosi · Burt Kennedy

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Richard Crenna · Chuck Connors · Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in...

5.6

107 votes

5.6

107 votes

5.5

261 votes

Young Billy Young

1969 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Robert Mitchum · Angie Dickinson · David Carradine · Robert Walker Jr.

Synopsis A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker....

5.5

332 votes

5.5

332 votes

Simon & Simon (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Philip DeGuere · Vincent McEveety · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Burt Kennedy

Cast Gerald McRaney · Jameson Parker · Mary Carver · Tim Reid

Synopsis Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency.

5.5

121 votes

5.5

121 votes

Welcome to Hard Times

1967 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Henry Fonda · Janice Rule · Keenan Wynn · Janis Paige

Synopsis In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk, including Fee, the town's founder. Mayor Will Blue fails to stand up to the man, who rapes saloon whore...

5.5

272 votes

5.5

272 votes

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast James Garner · Suzanne Pleshette · Jack Elam · Joan Blondell

Synopsis A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies.PL: Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

5.4

308 votes

5.4

308 votes

Wolf Lake

1980 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

5.4

51 votes

5.4

51 votes

The Killer Inside Me

1976 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Stacy Keach · Susan Tyrrell · Tisha Sterling · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Lou Ford (Stacy Keach) is the sheriff of a small midwestern town. Abusive to suspects, his demeanor disguises a walking time bomb of hidden evil ready to explode into a psychotic rage. As Lou snaps and threatens to take the...

5.2

81 votes

5.2

81 votes

The Yellow Rose (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lee H. Katzin · Harry Falk · Burt Kennedy · Jack Whitman

Cast Sam Elliott · Cybill Shepherd · David Soul · Edward Albert

Synopsis Nightime soap opera involving The Yellow Rose, a 200,000 acre ranch in Texas operated by the offspring of the founder, Wade Champion. His sons (Roy and Quisto) and his 29-year old widow, Colleen run the ranch when they are not...

5.1

80 votes

5.1

80 votes

Return of the Magnificent Seven

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Yul Brynner · Robert Fuller · Julián Mateos · Warren Oates

Synopsis When a bandit leader wants to build a church in memory of his dead sons, he raids three Mexican villages and kidnaps all the men for labour. One of these men is Chico, formerly of the original Magnificent Seven. His...

5.0

876 votes

5.0

876 votes

5.0

392 votes

Direction Burt Kennedy · Barry Crane · John Florea · Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Roger Wilson · Peter Horton · Drake Hogestyn

Synopsis TV Series (1982-1983). 22 episodes. The series told the adventures of a parentless family of rowdy brothers trying to run the family ranch in northern California. Into the chaos came feisty Hannah, who married Adam and took on the task...

4.9

141 votes

4.9

141 votes

All the Kind Strangers (TV)

1974 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Stacy Keach · Samantha Eggar · John Savage · Robby Benson

Synopsis Children of a bootlegger in an extremely remote area of the U.S. have been orphaned when their mother died giving birth to the 7th of them at home and the distraught father fell off the roof of the house in...

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes