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  • Red River
  • Red River review by roncoach from
    Rated - 3.5 stars Hyped as one of the best Westerns---it's not : but Duke "brings it thru" like a cattle drive:) 22 October 2011
    ...John Wayne, Walter Brennan , a host of splendid supporting stalwarts, and the direction of one of the greats in cinema....and the least you can expect is a 3.5 * film ( and t...   Read customer review
  • Rio Bravo
  • Rio Bravo review by A customer from England
    Rated - 5.0 stars QUALITY 23 August 2004
    ...self (John Wayne) and also has crooner Dean Martin to add spice to the mixture. Walter Brennan is always affable as that `old chap`, there is a dame (of course!) and the film...   Read customer review

Walter Brennan - filmography


  • 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 610 members
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  • Those Calloways on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Brian Keith,  Vera Miles,  Brandon De Wilde
    Director: Norman Tokar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the novel by Paul Annixter, THOSE CALLOWAYS tells the story of Cam Calloway (Brian Keith), a New England preservationist and fur trapper. Along with his son, Cam dreams of buying a nearby lake to turn into a refuge for migrating geese. He finds, however, that making the dream come true ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 52 members
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  • Rio Bravo - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 349 members
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  • Rio Bravo on DVD (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,549 members
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  • Rio Bravo - HD (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 45 members
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  • Tammy And The Bachelor on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Debbie Reynolds,  Leslie Nielsen,  Walter Brennan
    Director: Joseph Pevney
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Debbie Reynolds became a nationally recognised film star after the release of the first Tammy movie, TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR. The comedy follows country girl Tammy as she nurses back to health a wealthy young pilot, Peter (Leslie Neilsen), whose plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 40 members
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  • The Best of the Badmen on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Robert Ryan,  Claire Trevor,  Robert Preston
    Director: William D Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a gang of vanquished Confederate veterans known as the Quantrill Raiders are roaming the West branded as outlaws by the new Yankee government. The gang includes the Younger and James brothers, and has refused to lay down their arms after the Civil War ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 15 members
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  • Red River on DVD (1948)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Montgomery Clift,  Walter Brennan
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,360 members
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  • Blood On The Moon on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Barbara Bel Geddes,  Robert Preston
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unemployed cowhand and one-time rancher Jim Garry answers his friend Tate Riling's call to help him out in a dispute between a group of homesteaders and cattle rancher John Lufton. What Garry learns is that his old friend has cooked up a scheme with the local Indian agent to cancel Lufton's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 23 members
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  • My Darling Clementine (2 discs) (1946)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Victor Mature,  Walter Brennan
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is still one of the most entertaining. Henry Fonda stars as former lawman Wyatt Earp, who, after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 878 members
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  • Hangmen Also Die (1943)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Walter Brennan,  Dennis O'Keefe
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fritz Lang, one of the masters of the German expressionist cinema, turns his sinister imagination and shadowy techniques to a web like take of wartime espionage in Hangmen Also Die. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, the film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 183 members
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  • Swamp Water on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Brennan,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A hunter encounters a young girl living with her fugitive father in the swamps of Georgia. He falls in love with her and tries to persuade the fugitive to move with his daughter back into town.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 94 members
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  • Meet John Doe on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Edward Arnold
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this Frank Capra film, Gary Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, an unemployed man who is duped into becoming an American symbol by D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. When Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by Norton, she sends a fake suicide note to the publisher ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 486 members
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  • The Westerner (1940)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Walter Brennan
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A traditional story of the conflict between farmers and cattlemen is represented by Gary Cooper as Cole Hardin and Walter Brennan as "Judge" Roy Bean. Hardin is brought before the self-appointed Judge ("the only law west of the Pecos") as a horse-thief. Fortunately, Hardin notices the giant ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 35 members
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  • The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle (1939)
    Starring: Fred Astaire,  Ginger Rogers,  Janet Beecher
    Director: H. C Potter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Who else but the fabulous Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the greatest dancing team of all time, could portray Vernon & Irene Castle, the renowned ballroom dancers of the years preceding World War I? Fred and Ginger dance up a storm as they dramatize the careers of the Castles. The pair first unite ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 193 members
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  • The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Tommy Kelly,  Ann Gillis,  Jackie Moran
    Director: Norman Taurog
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    After accidentally witnessing a murder, Tom and his pals Huck and Joe run away to become pirates, swearing to never reveal their secret. But when a man is wrongfully accused of the deed, they know they've got to come forward with the truth. A faithful adaptation of the Twain novel, with the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 283 members
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  • Fury (1936)
    Starring: Sylvia Sidney,  Walter Abel,  George Walcott
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 7 members
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  • Barbary Coast on DVD (1935)
    Starring: Edward G. Robinson,  Miriam Hopkins,  Joel McCrea
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Edward G Robinson dominates this film as Louis, the owner of a saloon bar in the 1850's Red Light district of San Fransisco - the Barbary Coast. A cast of Hollywood regulars support Robinson in this rip-roaring tale of the saloons of the California Gold Rush starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 36 members
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Walter Brennan facts

5 most recent films

The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again - 2.0 stars
Support Your Local Sheriff - 3.5 stars
The One And Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band - 3.0 stars
The Gnome Mobile - 3.0 stars
Those Calloways - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Humphrey Bogart Classics - Vol. 2 - 4.0 stars
Rio Bravo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Humphrey Bogart Classics - To Have And Have Not - 4.0 stars
My Darling Clementine - 3.5 stars
Rio Bravo - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Affairs Of Cappy Ricks - 1.5 stars
The Fred Astaire Collection - 2.5 stars
The One And Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band - 3.0 stars
Barbary Coast - 3.0 stars
The Westerner - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ward Bond - 7 times - show films
John Wayne - 5 times - show films
Gary Cooper - 5 times - show films
John Ireland - 4 times - show films
Tim Holt - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 8 times - show films
John Ford - 3 times - show films
Fritz Lang - 2 times - show films
Frank Capra - 2 times - show films
George McCowan - 2 times - show films