James Arness Movies

The Thing from Another World

72/100

Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

Them!

73/100

The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

Island in the Sky

70/100

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Big Jim McLain

54/100

In the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists.

The Macahans

82/100

Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, help's move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles, including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back ... See full summary »

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

62/100

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.

Gun the Man Down

63/100

Two bank robbers abandon their wounded partner to the posse and run with the loot but their partner, after serving time in prison, seeks revenge.

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

70/100

Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twelve years ago, Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell.

Hellgate

65/100

A man is framed and sent to toughest prison in the territory.

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

71/100

James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the U.S. Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 television series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken... See full summary »

Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice

72/100

Retired Marshal Matt Dillon goes after a fifteen-year-old boy who is determined to kill the men responsible for the murder of his mother during a stagecoach robbery.

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

72/100

Retired Marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Red River

62/100

A remake of the 1948 movie of the same name. Arness portrayed a rancher at odds with his son.

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

74/100

Retired Marshal Matt Dillon must clear his name after a lying witness makes him wanted: dead or alive.

Two Lost Worlds

44/100

When the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for ... See full summary »

John Wayne Standing Tall

68/100

Profile of one of the world's most popular motion picture stars, told through interviews with some of the artists who worked with him, family, friends, and excerpts from many of his films and television appearances.

TV: The Fabulous Fifties

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