James Best — Actor (14)
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Death Mask (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Death Mask
director: Steve Latshaw actor: James Best / Linnea Quigley …
Wilbur works in an old carnival and shows some gruesome things to the public. He covers his face because he had a sadistic father who burned his face as a child. Everybody makes jokes about his scars and when the new boss fires him, he goes to an old swamp-witch who gives him a peace of wood from a hanging tree. Wilbur makes a mask from this piece of wood and puts all his anger in this mask. When he puts the mask on, everybody who looks at him commits suicide.
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The Cimarron Kid (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cimarron Kid
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Audie Murphy / Beverly Tyler …
other title: L'ultimo fuorilegge / Flucht vor dem Tode …
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
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Tot oder lebendig (1957) IMDb TMDB
Last of the Badmen
director: Paul Landres actor: George Montgomery / Keith Larsen …
other title: Last of the Badmen
Mitarbeiter einer Detektivagentur machen sich um das Jahr 1870 auf den Weg nach Westen, weil sie den Tod eines ihrer Kollegen aufklären wollen. Hierbei geraten sie an eine Bande von Kopfgeldjägern, die mit schmutzigen Tricks arbeitet.
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Black Spurs (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Black Spurs
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Rory Calhoun / Linda Darnell …
other title: O Pistoleiro das Esporas Negras / Schwarze Sporen …
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
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The Raid (1954) IMDb TMDB
The Raid
director: Hugo Fregonese actor: Van Heflin / Anne Bancroft …
other title: La spia dei ribelli / Unter zwei Flaggen …
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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Hooper (1978)
Hooper
director: Hal Needham actor: Burt Reynolds / Jan-Michael Vincent …
other title: Collo d'acciaio / Hård hud over hele kroppen …
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) IMDb TMDB
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
director: Nicholas D. Wrathall actor: Gore Vidal / Jerry Brown …
Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining tribute to the iconic Gore Vidal. Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time.
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The Left Handed Gun (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Left Handed Gun
director: Arthur Penn actor: Paul Newman / Lita Milan …
other title: Furia selvaggia - Billy Kid / The Left Handed Gun - Skud fra venstre …
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.