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review by from the middle of Dorset
Well acted and nostalgic teen drama 1 February 2005
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Hard to Hackett. 6 December 2007
review by Northernsky from halifax, West Yorks
Well let him come 22 July 2007
Ben Johnson - filmography
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The Evening Star
(1996)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis
Director: Robert Harling
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The indomitable Aurora Greenway's struggles with her family and her love life continue in this long-awaited sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. In her own inimitable style, she continues to struggle with her family, neigbors, and her decidedly unconventional love life.
 
52%
from 21 members
Currently unavailable
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The Chase
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Ben Johnson, Casey Siemaszko, Robert Beltran
Director: Paul Wendkos
Certificate: 
A bank robber escapes from a Texan jail and heads out on a bloody crime spree in Denver. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse emerges as he finds the police, local citizens and a television news crew all on his trail.
42%
from 64 members
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Cherry 2000
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
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The year is 2017 and romance is a thing of the past, having long been replaced by robotic playmates. When Sam's Cherry 2000 robot develops a short-circuit he enlists the help of a woman tracker to locate the scarce parts needed to resurrect her. And through their adventure, he finds true love.
54%
from 514 members
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Red Dawn
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
Director: John Milius
Certificate:
An American city awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky -- shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to ..read more »
60%
from 2,926 members
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The Shadow Riders
(1982)
Starring: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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Based on the story by Louis L'Amour of two brothers, a yank and a rebel, who return home from the Civil War to find their sisters have kidnapped by white slavers. They bust their scoundrel of an uncle from jail and set out to rescue them.
60%
from 2 members
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Terror Train
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Certificate: 
It's New Year's Eve and the college boys of Sigma Phi fraternity have invited friends to a masquerade ball aboard a chartered train. But while they provide the food, booze and music, a knife-wielding psycho, intent on revenge for a sick joke four years earlier, provides the deadly entertainment...
43%
from 584 members
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The Hunter
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold
Director: Buzz Kulik
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In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments ..read more »
62%
from 602 members
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Breakheart Pass
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
Director: Tom Gries
Certificate: 
A muscular Western featuring the fisticuffs of Bronson. In 1870, the soldiers at an Army outpost in Utah are supposedly suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train heads toward the fort filled with soldiers, medical supplies and Bronson, an undercover agent posing as an arrested criminal. There, ..read more »
61%
from 369 members
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Bite The Bullet
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn
Director: Richard Brooks
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Filmed in the classic Western tradition, this tale of a 700-mile horse race in the early 1900s takes its stalwart competitors over some rough western terrain and through various inclement conditions. The wide variety of contestants has differing reasons for entering the grueling race, but each and ..read more »
60%
from 355 members
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Kid Blue
(1973)
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle
Director: James Frawley
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Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet ..read more »
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Dillinger
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips
Director: John Milius
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The first feature film from man's man director Milius is a violent, hard-hitting account of Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger. The last half of his criminal career is dramatically retold until his notorious finale outside the Biograph Theatre.
62%
from 349 members
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The Getaway
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to ..read more »
66%
from 2,782 members
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The Getaway - Blu-ray
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones.
67%
from 555 members
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The Getaway - HD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones.
67%
from 106 members
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Junior Bonner
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to come ..read more »
60%
from 374 members
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The Last Picture Show
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Randy Quaid, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and ..read more »
70%
from 4,566 members
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Chisum
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Christopher George, Bruce Cabot, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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A tough cattle baron fights con artists, corrupt officials--even Billy the Kid--in order to keep his ranch. It comes down to the town founder John Chisum (John Wayne) against the immoral Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) and the town isn't going to be big enough for both of them. Wayne's been here ..read more »
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from 1,535 member
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The Wild Bunch
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Strother Martin, Emilio Fernandez, Edmund O'Brien
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
70%
from 6,985 members
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Hang 'Em High
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Ed Begley, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Director: Ted Post
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The first spaghetti western made in America (sans Leone) and Eastwood's first star vehicle made outside Europe. Eastwood's innocent cowboy miraculously survives his own hanging and then treks across the frontier to bring his hangmen to justice. Highly entertaining, featuring in small parts Dern, ..read more »
69%
from 5,145 members
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Will Penny
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
Director: Tom Gries
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Cowboy, Will Penny, stops over at the home of Catherine, wife of an Oregon farmer. Catherine is attracted to Will and although Will is attracted to Catherine, he behaves like a perfect gentleman...
64%
from 276 members
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The Rare Breed
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Juliet Mills, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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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 »
63%
from 320 members
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One Eyed Jacks
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Director: Marlon Brando
Certificate:
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio ..read more »
62%
from 799 members
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One Eyed Jacks - Blu-ray
(1961)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Director: Marlon Brando
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio ..read more »
35%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Shane
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Director: George Stevens
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch ..read more »
73%
from 2,961 members
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Rio Grande
(1950)
Starring: Claude Jarman, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
Director: John Ford
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen (Maureen O'Hara). Yorke gets word that his son, Jeff (Claude Jarman Jr.) -- whom he hasn't seen in 15 years -- has been dropped as a cadet from West Point, and that he lied about his ..read more »
69%
from 1,456 member
Not currently released
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The Wagon Master
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr.
Director: John Ford
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In 1849, Ward Bond (Elder Wiggs), a Mormon elder hires young horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy (Harry Carey Jr.) to guide a party of Mormons to the distant and unexplored San Juan River Country.
68%
from 57 members
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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar
Director: John Ford
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The second of John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre performance, 42-year old John Wayne plays sixtyish Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must face ..read more »
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from 1,698 member
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Mighty Joe Young
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child. When the gorilla is full grown, Hollywood promoter Max O'Hara travels to Africa and convinces Jill to bring the the gorilla, Joe, back to America. When in Hollywood, Joe is used in a stage production and is exploited to no end. It ..read more »
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from 62 members
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...but that doesn't mean it isn't a significant achievement.
Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson won Oscars for their performances, but I think Timothy Bottoms is fantastic. T...
