Direction: Joseph Kane

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


6.0

39 votes

The Man Who Died Twice

1958 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Vera Ralston · Rod Cameron · Mike Mazurki · Gerald Milton

Synopsis A nightclub singer loses her husband in an automobile accident, and soon afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, and suffers a nervous breakdown. The police come to believe that all three murders are related, as they had suspected...

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Rawhide (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Ted Post · Christian Nyby · Harmon Jones

Cast Clint Eastwood · Eric Fleming · Paul Brinegar · Steve Raines

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1965). 8 Seasons. 217 Episodes. Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

5.8

99 votes

5.8

99 votes

The Maverick Queen

1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Scott Brady · Mary Murphy

Synopsis A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.

5.7

111 votes

5.7

111 votes

Jubilee Trail

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Vera Ralston · Joan Leslie · Forrest Tucker · John Russell

Synopsis A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes

Fair Wind to Java

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Fred MacMurray · Vera Ralston · Robert Douglas · Paul Fix

Synopsis The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also...

5.4

29 votes

5.4

29 votes

Flame of Barbary Coast

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Wayne · Ann Dvorak · Joseph Schildkraut · William Frawley

Synopsis Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Tito, goes home and PL: learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune he opens his own place with Flaxen...

5.3

43 votes

5.3

43 votes

The Road to Denver

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Payne · Mona Freeman · Lee J. Cobb · Ray Middleton

Synopsis The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job...

5.3

58 votes

5.3

58 votes

Dakota

1945 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Wayne · Vera Ralston · Walter Brennan · Ward Bond

Synopsis Dakota is a 1945 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan. The supporting cast features Ward Bond and Mike Mazurki.

5.2

126 votes

5.2

126 votes

Timberjack

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Sterling Hayden · Vera Ralston · David Brian · Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis Tim Shipman returns to his father's logging company only to find his father has been killed, money is owed, and Croft Brunner controls the railroad used to haul out the logs. But he learns the Government restriction on his valuable...

5.1

22 votes

5.1

22 votes

Red River Valley

1941 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Roy Rogers · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Sally Payne · Trevor Bardette

Synopsis Ranchers, with the help of Roy, raise money to build a reservoir but lose it to a gambler through a crooked stock deal.

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Accused of Murder

1956 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast David Brian · Vera Ralston · Sidney Blackmer · Virginia Grey

Synopsis When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan , who has been hired by underworld boss Chad Bayliss to kill Hobart. Attracted to Ilona, Lt. Detective...

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San Antone

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Rod Cameron · Arleen Whelan · Forrest Tucker · Katy Jurado

Synopsis After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico--now occupied by the French, who are battling Mexican revolutionaries led by Benito Juarez--in exchange for 50 prisoners being held by a former Confederate...

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Spoilers of the Forest

1957 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Rod Cameron · Vera Ralston · Ray Collins · Hillary Brooke

Synopsis A lumber tycoon's (Ray Collins) foreman (Rod Cameron) woos a Montana (Vera Ralston) who owns 64,000 acres with her stepfather.

Not rated

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Days of Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Roy Rogers · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Don 'Red' Barry · Pauline Moore

Synopsis Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.

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Song of Texas

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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The Last Bandit

1949 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Bill Elliott · Lorna Gray · Forrest Tucker · Andy Devine

Synopsis About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer,...

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Ghost-Town Gold

1936 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Robert Livingston · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Kay Hughes

Synopsis The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.

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The Yellow Rose of Texas

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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Oh! Susanna

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Rod Cameron · Lorna Gray · Forrest Tucker · Chill Wills

Synopsis A cavalry unit defends settlers against rampaging Sioux Indians.

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Not rated