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  • Once Upon A Time In The West
  • Once Upon A Time In The West review by A customer from Doncaster
    Rated - 4.0 stars A Long Time in the West 9 November 2010
    ...f outlaws and Charles Bronson as his Nemesis. Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Elam and Woody Strode all make telling, if brief in some instances, appearances. Enn...   Read customer review
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • Kansas City Confidential review by ChesterDent from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars A cold knife in the middle of your back. 19 September 2006
    ...ed to perform the perfect crime - and when these crooks include early roles for Jack Elam and Lee van Cleef you're expecting a bruising encounter. The build-up is tight;...   Read customer review
  • Support Your Local Sheriff
  • Support Your Local Sheriff review by A customer from Cardiff,Wales
    Rated - 5.0 stars Wonderful 25 September 2004
    ...erful movie. Funny from start to finish.James Garner plays the cool sheriff and Jack Elam is just great as his deputy.It's not too violent and what there is is quite tam...   Read customer review

Jack Elam - filmography


  • Cactus Jack on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Foster Brooks,  Kirk Douglas,  Mel Tillis
    Director: Hal Needham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A send up of the familiar genre of B- Westerns. Kirk Douglas plays Cactus Jack, a highwayman who wants to kidnap fair damsel Ann-Margret, but Arnold Schwarzenegger always rescues her. Paul Lynde plays an Indian Chief, appropriately named Nervous Elk.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,087 member
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  • The Creature From Black Lake on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Dennis Fimple,  Bill Thurman,  Dub Taylor
    Director: Joy Houck Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A group of fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature in the area, two researchers come to the small town to study and hopefully uncover what the beast is. Their research with help from some farmers reveals that the creature may be a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 48 members
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  • Support Your Local Gunfighter on DVD (1971)
    Starring: James Garner,  Chuck Connors,  Harry Morgan
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    James Garner arrives in the small town of purgatory and is mistaken for a famous gunslinger. Jack Elam plays a clowning sidekick who lets the townsfolk believe what they want, ripping them off whenever he can.. However, when the real gunslinger returns things really start hotting up.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 488 members
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  • Hannie Caulder on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Strother Martin,  Richard Johnson
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    60's sex symbol Raquel Welch stars as the gun-slinging, vengeful Hannie Caulder. Whilst fleeing the scene of a botched bank robbery, the Clements brothers (Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam & Strother Martin) come across an isolated homestead. Whilst trying to steal new horses, the trigger-happy youngest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 249 members
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  • Rio Lobo on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Mike Henry,  Christopher Mitch,  Christopher Mitchum
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,093 member
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  • Rio Lobo - Blu-ray (1970)
    Starring: Mike Henry,  Christopher Mitchum,  Jennifer O'Neill
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Howard Hawk's final film stars John Wayne as Union Colonel Cord McNally. During the American Civil War, McNally is first captured by and then turns the tables on Confederates Captain Cordova (Jorge Rivero) and Tuscorora (Chris Mitchum). However, when the war ends McNally returns to Texas, where he ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 52 members
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  • Support Your Local Sheriff on DVD (1969)
    Starring: James Garner,  Henry Morgan,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A spoof on westerns with James Garner stoping off in a small town on his way to Australia. He becomes sheriff, and hires Jack Elam as his deputy. Together they capture villains and put them in a prison without bars and shoot-outs with unloaded guns.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 651 members
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  • The Rare Breed on DVD (1966)
    Starring: James Stewart,  David Brian,  Don Galloway
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Western starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara, based on real-life events that took place in the 1880s when Hereford cattle were first introduced to the American West. Martha Price (O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) enlist the help of Sam 'Bulldog' Burnett (Stewart), a wandering ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 342 members
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  • Baby Face Nelson (1957)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Carolyn Jones,  Cedric Hardwicke
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester Baby Face Nelson Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun moll, ..read more »
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  • The Man From Laramie on DVD (1955)
    Starring: John War Eagle,  Aline MacMahon,  James Stewart
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Anthony Mann directed this brilliant psychological Western reminiscent of Shakespeare's King Lear. James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his brother. Will enters the town of Coronado, NM, ruled by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,202 member
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  • Kansas City Confidential on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Dona Drake,  Neville Brand,  John Payne
    Director: Phil Karlson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A classic film noir thriller following the story of a man who has just been released from prison after serving time for a crime he did not commit. Unsurprisingly, he is a little disgrunted, and sets his sights on finding the real perpetrator of the sophisticated armoured car-heist.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 124 members
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  • The Battle At Apache Pass on DVD (1952)
    Starring: William Reynolds,  Richard Egan,  James Best
    Director: George Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1950s western in which the breakdown of trust between the Chiricahua Apaches and the US cavalry leads to war. When Indian Affairs agent Neil Baylor (Bruce Cowling) stirs up a war in order for the government to sieze Chiricahua territory, all the Apaches join forces and prepare for the ensuing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 22 members
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  • Rawhide on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Susan Hayward,  Hugh Marlowe
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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Jack Elam facts

5 most recent films

Once Upon A Texas Train - 2.5 stars
Cactus Jack - 3.0 stars
The Creature From Black Lake - 2.0 stars
Support Your Local Gunfighter - 3.5 stars
Hannie Caulder - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Once Upon A Time In The West - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Once Upon A Time In The West - 3.5 stars
Support Your Local Sheriff - 3.5 stars
Rio Lobo - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Support Your Local Gunfighter - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Baby Face Nelson - 3 stars
The Creature From Black Lake - 2.0 stars
The Battle At Apache Pass - 3.0 stars
Rawhide - 3.0 stars
Once Upon A Texas Train - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Keenan Wynn - 4 times - show films
Frank Wolff - 4 times - show films
Jason Robards - 4 times - show films
Lionel Stander - 4 times - show films
Charles Bronson - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Burt Kennedy - 4 times - show films
Sergio Leone - 4 times - show films
Herschel Daugherty - 2 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 2 times - show films
Phil Karlson - 2 times - show films