Jim Davis — Actor (20)
Comes a Horseman (1978) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Comes a Horseman
director: Alan J. Pakula actor: James Caan / Jane Fonda
other title: Arriva un cavaliere libero e selvaggio / Uma Mulher Implacável
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Gambler Wore a Gun
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Jim Davis / Merry Anders
other title: Cartas na Mesa / Ein Mann gegen alle
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
Noose for a Gunman (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Noose for a Gunman
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Jim Davis / Lyn Thomas
other title: Braço É Braço / Morgen sollst du sterben
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Alias Jesse James (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Alias Jesse James
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Rhonda Fleming
other title: Arriva Jesse James / Valentão Era Apelido
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
director: Albert C. Gannaway actor: Jim Davis / Arleen Whelan
other title: Sangue em Suas Mãos / Sheriff Brown räumt auf
Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken for the dead man, a legendary marshal named Brennan. The town sent for Marshal Brennan because they were facing a crisis that includes among other things an epidemic. The Stranger decides to stay as a way of hiding from the men chasing him. What he does not realize is that when he takes on the Badge of Marshal Brennan, he takes on the responsibilities of Marshal Brennan.
Last Stagecoach West (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Last Stagecoach West
director: Joseph Kane actor: Jim Davis / Mary Castle
other title: The Last Stagecoach West / La ultima diligencia del Oeste
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
The Outcast (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Outcast
director: William Witney actor: John Derek / Joan Evans
other title: Il cacciatore di fortuna / Brandmal der Rache
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
Hellfire (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hellfire
other title: Inferno di fuoco / Kopfpreis 5000 Dollar
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Woman They Almost Lynched
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Lund / Brian Donlevy
other title: La donna che volevano linciare / Am Tode vorbei
Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her brother is pulled into the town’s violence.
Woman of the North Country (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Woman of the North Country
director: Joseph Kane actor: Rod Cameron / Ruth Hussey
other title: Faustrecht in Minnesota
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Blonde Bait (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Blonde Bait
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
The Maverick Queen (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Maverick Queen
other title: Il mio amante è un bandito / Até a Última Bala
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which, like the owner bears the name of "The Maverick Queen."---a title picked up by Kit in her earlier days in Wyoming when she took every unbranded steer and put her own brand on it. Love and trouble enter her life in the person of a Pinkerton detective posing as Jeff Younger, nephew of the infamous Younger brothers. He is dedicated to catching Butch Cassidy and the members of The Wild Bunch
Monte Walsh (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Monte Walsh
director: William A. Fraker actor: Lee Marvin / Jeanne Moreau
other title: Monty Walsh, un uomo duro a morire
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
Monster from Green Hell (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Monster from Green Hell
director: Kenneth G. Crane actor: Jim Davis / Robert Griffin
other title: Il pianeta dove l'inferno è verde
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.
The Last Command (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Last Command
other title: Alamo - L'ultimo comando / Die Barrikaden von San Antone
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.