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  • Red Dawn
  • Red Dawn review by from Salford, Manchester
    Rated - 1 stars Awful 23 October 2005
    ...h to rent this, along with the appearance of Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and Ben Johnson. The dialogue is awful and it seems John Milius's militaristic preaching in too...  
  • The Last Picture Show
  • The Last Picture Show review by from the middle of Dorset
    Rated - 4 stars Well acted and nostalgic teen drama 1 February 2005
    ...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...  
  • Breakheart Pass
  • Breakheart Pass review by from London, England
    Rated - 4 stars Trust no one 19 July 2004
    ...uessing until the very end. Bronson gives his usual stone faced performance. Ben Johnson and Richard Crenna are useful and give weight to the movie....  

Ben Johnson - filmography


  • The Evening Star (1996)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Bill Paxton,  Juliette Lewis
    Director: Robert Harling
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 16 members
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  • The Chase on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Ben Johnson,  Casey Siemaszko,  Robert Beltran
    Director: Paul Wendkos
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 59 members
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  • Cherry 2000 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  David Andrews,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Steve De Jarnatt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The year is 2017 and romance is a thing of the past, having long been replaced by robotic playmates.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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 415 members
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  • Red Dawn on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  C. Thomas Howell,  Patrick Swayze
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the heartland of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,197 members
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  • The Hunter on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Eli Wallach,  Kathryn Harrold
    Director: Buzz Kulik
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steve McQueen's last movie is a fitting tribute to his memorable talent. He portrays real-life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, who made a long career out of apprehending more than 5,000 criminals and bail jumpers. Thorson's tough antics (featuring a few memorable car chases) are tempered by his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 472 members
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  • Terror Train on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Ben Johnson,  Hart Bochner
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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...
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 503 members
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  • Breakheart Pass on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Ben Johnson,  Richard Crenna
    Director: Tom Gries
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 297 members
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  • Dillinger (1973)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Ben Johnson,  Michelle Phillips
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 32 members
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  • The Getaway on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Ali MacGraw,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,294 members
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  • Junior Bonner on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Robert Preston,  Ida Lupino
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Sam Peckinpah's JUNIOR BONNER, Steve McQueen is the title character, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on...after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 299 members
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  • Getaway, The - HD DVD Version (1972)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Ali MacGraw,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 95 members
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  • Chisum on DVD (1970)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Forrest Tucker,  Glenn Corbett
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,395 member
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  • The Wild Bunch on DVD (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,035 members
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  • Hang 'Em High on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Ed Begley,  Inger Stevens
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,528 members
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  • Shane on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Alan Ladd,  Jean Arthur,  Van Heflin
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of homesteader Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) just before Ryker (Emile Meyer), a powerful and predatory cattleman, arrives with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,311 members
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  • Rio Grande on DVD (1950)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Maureen O'Hara,  Ben Johnson
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In RIO GRANDE, the last part of John Ford's classic Cavalry Trilogy, John Wayne stars as Kirby York, a colonel at an army outpost along the U.S.-Mexico border where the Apache are always a problem. When his son, Jeff (Claude Jarman Jr.), whom he hasn't seen in more than a decade, arrives at the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,292 member
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  • Mighty Joe Young (1949)
    Starring: Terry Moore,  Ben Johnson,  Robert Armstrong
    Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 41% from 6 members
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  • She Wore A Yellow Ribbon on DVD (1949)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Joanne Dru,  John Agar
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A lament for the passage of time and the second in the director's acclaimed series of cavalry films, John Ford's SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON stars John Wayne as Capt. Nathan Brittles, a cavalry officer stationed in the Southwest. While contemplating his retirement, which is only a week away, Brittles ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,478 member
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  • The Wagon Master on DVD
    Starring: Ben Johnson
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 18 members
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  • One-Eyed Jacks to Watch Now (1961)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Karl Malden,  Pina Pellicer
    Director: Marlon Brando
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 141 minutes
    Two men carry out a bank robbery in Mexico. Dad takes the gold and lets Rio be captured. Rio however escapes years later and comes after him with revenge and gold on his mind.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 10 members
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Ben Johnson facts

5 most recent films

The Evening Star - 3.0 stars
The Chase - 2.0 stars
Cherry 2000 - 2.5 stars
Red Dawn - 3.0 stars
The Hunter - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Wild Bunch, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Shane - 3.5 stars
The Wild Bunch - 3.5 stars
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - 3.5 stars
The Last Picture Show - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mighty Joe Young - 2.5 stars
The Evening Star - 3.0 stars
The Train Robbers - 3.0 stars
Dillinger - 3.5 stars
The Wagon Master - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Slim Pickens - 6 times - show films
Steve McQueen - 5 times - show films
John Wayne - 4 times - show films
Sally Struthers - 3 times - show films
Victor McLaglen - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sam Peckinpah - 6 times - show films
John Ford - 4 times - show films
John Milius - 2 times - show films
Tom Gries - 2 times - show films
Andrew V. McLaglen - 2 times - show films