Direction: Burt Kennedy
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Burt Kennedy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 34
How the West Was Won (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · United States
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
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Burt Kennedy
Cast Robert Mitchum · George Kennedy · Martin Balsam · David Carradine
5.5
261 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
Direction Burt Kennedy
Cast Rod Steiger · David Huffman · Robin Mattson · Jerry Hardin
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
Hannie Caulder
1971 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Burt Kennedy
Cast Raquel Welch · Robert Culp · Ernest Borgnine · Christopher Lee
5.0
392 votes
5.0
392 votes
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States
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