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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


  • Once Upon A Texas Train on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Willie Nelson,  Angie Dickinson,  Richard Widmark
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    John Henry, a man with a mission after rotting in prison for twenty years, for trying to rob the Texas train is released. It takes him just three hours to clean out the vault of a bank and set about re-forming his old gang. This time the elderly outlaws plan to get the railroad heist right....
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 123 members
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  • Cactus Jack on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Ann-Margret,  Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Director: Hal Needham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham (CANNONBALL RUN), fashioned this intricately staged slapstick Western after Road Runner cartoons. Cowboy Handsome Stranger (Arnold Schwarzeneggar) is escorting Charming Jones (Ann-Margret) to obtain a large amount of money from her father. However, they don't ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,034 member
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  • Support Your Local Gunfighter on DVD (1971)
    Starring: James Garner,  Chuck Connors,  Harry Morgan
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Although SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER features the same director and many of the same cast members as SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF, the film isn't a sequel to the later movie. Instead, it's another delightful collaboration between director Burt Kennedy and leading man James Garner. This time around ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 462 members
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  • Rio Lobo on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Christopher Mitchum,  John Wayne,  Jennifer O'Neill
    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 1,060 member
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  • Rio Lobo - Blu-ray (1970)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Jennifer O'Neill,  Jorge Rivero
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Howard Hawks's final film once again teams him with John Wayne, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who also wrote his EL DORADO and RIO BRAVO). The time is just after the end of the Civil War. Wayne is Union Colonel Cord McNally, who is teamed with two Confederate soldiers he captured during the war ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 36 members
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  • Support Your Local Sheriff on DVD (1969)
    Starring: James Garner,  Walter Brennan,  Jack Elam
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Burt Kennedy's Western is a bawdy, all-out parody that skewers every cliche the genre has to offer. There's Jason McCullough (James Garner), the sharpshooting stranger passing through town who becomes sheriff; the Danbys, a villainous gang who terrorises the entire community; Prudy Perkins ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 622 members
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  • Once Upon A Time In The West on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti,  Woody Strode,  Jack Elam
    Director: Sergio Leone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sergio Leone's monumental epic Once Upon A Time In The West ranks among the five or six all-time Western masterpieces. The picture itself is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast. Henry Fonda plays the blackest character of his long career and he's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 14,919 members
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  • The Rare Breed on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Juliet Mills,  James Stewart,  Maureen O'Hara
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    THE RARE BREED is that uncommon oater that emphasizes character over action. Martha Price (O'Hara), a headstrong widow, has taken her daughter, Hilary (Mills), and a valuable bull from England with plans to deliver the animal to Texas. A downtrodden drifter, Sam Burnett (Stewart), helps Martha make ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 320 members
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  • Jubal on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Glenn Ford,  Ernest Borgnine,  Rod Steiger
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I. Wellman. The Othello counterpart is likable (and extremely gullible) ranch owner Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine). Horgan hires handsome drifter Cassioer, Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 20 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: Aline MacMahon,  John War Eagle,  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 66% from 1,147 member
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  • The Battle At Apache Pass on DVD (1952)
    Starring: John Lund,  Jeff Chandler,  Beverly Tyler
    Director: George Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jeff Chandler stars as Cochise, the mighty Indian chief of the Chiricahua Apaches whose friendship and trust of the U.S. Cavalry has ensured peace in an otherwise hostile land. The already fragile concord is shattered when a new Indian Affairs agent (Bruce Cowling) conspires to bring the Apaches to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 12 members
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  • Kansas City Confidential on DVD (1952)
    Starring: John Payne,  Coleen Gray,  Preston Foster
    Director: Phil Karlson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL is a hard-hitting film noir starring John Payne as Joe Rolfe, an ex-con who's trying to go straight with a job as a deliveryman for a florist company. Unfortunately, a gang of thugs (the sinister trio of Jack Elam, Neville Brand, and Lee Van Cleef) led by a criminal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 105 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 - 4.5 stars
Once Upon A Time In The West - 3.5 stars
Support Your Local Sheriff - 3.5 stars
Support Your Local Gunfighter - 3.5 stars
Rio Lobo - 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 - 2.5 stars
Rawhide - 3.0 stars
Jubal - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charles Bronson - 5 times - show films
Jason Robards - 4 times - show films
Gabriele Ferzetti - 4 times - show films
Claudia Cardinale - 4 times - show films
Henry Fonda - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Burt Kennedy - 4 times - show films
Sergio Leone - 4 times - show films
Phil Karlson - 2 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 2 times - show films
Herschel Daugherty - 2 times - show films