Arthur Kennedy
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Filmography
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The Naked Dawn
(1955)After robbing a train, a cynical bandit meets a poor farmer and his wife. The farmer plans to steal his cash, but the wife wants to run away with him.

Nine Guests for a Crime
(1977)During their annual vacation on a small Mediterranean Island, the members of a bourgeois family are stalked one by one by a mysterious killer.

Impulse
(1954)The life of a world-weary and married estate agent spirals out of control when his nightclub singer mistress convinces him he killed a jewel thief.

Cyclone
(1978)After their plane crashes into the ocean, a group of survivors board a small boat, where they face grim realities when their food supply runs out.

Rome, Armed to the Teeth
(1976)The Dirty Harry of Rome’s police force obsessively pursues a psychopathic crime lord and his dangerous gang through the city’s crime-infested streets.

The Man from Laramie
(1955)A man sets out to avenge his brother's death and runs up against a gang selling weapons to an Apache tribe.

Day of the Evil Gun
(1968)Returning home after disappearing three years ago, former gunslinger Lorn Warfield (Glenn Ford) finds that an Apache raiding party has kidnapped his wife and children. Though he has renounced violence, he now takes up his gun and joins forces with his neighbor, Owen Forbes (Arthur Kennedy). Complicating matters, Forbes is engaged to Warfield's wife, who believed her husband was dead. As they pursue the Apaches, the two men are joined by an Indian trader, Jimmy Noble (Dean Jagger).

Champion
(1949)A boxer pushes friends and family aside during his single-minded quest to win the middleweight title, his only way out of the poverty of the Depression.

The Window
(1949)Nine-year-old Tommy Woodry has a history of making things up, but he insists he really saw this: a murder in his own apartment building! No one believes Tommy's story. No one except the killers. From its taut pursuits to its sinister sense of danger lurking behind any apartment door, The Window is a minor gem of film noir. Bobby Driscoll, playing perhaps the genre's youngest protagonist, received an honorary Oscar for his portrayal of the imperiled boy. Noted cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff (Notorious) directs, ramping up the tension in this film based on a story by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window).

The Lusty Men
(1952)Benched by an injury, a retired rodeo champ agrees to mentor an aspiring rider while eyeing his chagrined wife, who objects to the dangerous sport.

Barabbas
(1961)Barabbas the thief is spared from crucifixion when Jesus Christ dies in his place, but guilt plagues Barabbas for the remainder of his days.

Elmer Gantry
(1960)A charming conman pretends to be a preacher and romances a roadside revivalist. Will his charade collapse when an ex-lover shows up to settle a score?

The Desperate Hours
(1955)Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact with their money supply, deliberately choose the suburban home of Fredric March and his family. The cold-blooded Bogart wants no trouble with the police, and he knows he can cower a family with children into cooperating with him.

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
(1974)A cop seeks two hippies suspected of Manson family-like murders in the English countryside. Unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead.

Red Mountain
(1951)Confederate soldier, Brett Sherwood (Alan Ladd), is en route to join Captain Quantrill’s bandits. Along the way he rescues a man accused of a killing he had been responsible for. Things become complicated when the man’s fiancé discovers the truth and Brett finds out Quantrill is not what he appears to be.

The Antichrist
(1974)A hypnosis session, intended to heal a paralyzed young woman, unwittingly welcomes the devil when it awakens memories of her past life as a witch.

Murieta
(1965)The murder of his wife by racist bandits turns a Mexican gold prospector into a Robin Hood vigilante who terrorizes California with a gang of raiders.

Too Late for Tears
(1949)Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with cash and is determined to hold onto it, even if it means murder.

Nevada Smith
(1966)The part-Indian character from Harold Robbins' "The Carpetbaggers" hunts down his parents' killers.

Anzio
(1968)Despite advice to the contrary, an overly cautious General forgoes a wide-open road and finds himself in a battle that lasts four months.