James Best
21 titles
Filmography
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Verboten!
(1959)
The Killer Shrews
(1959)A couple is in for the fight of their lives after they get stranded on an island that’s infested with enormous genetically mutated killer rodents.

The Brain Machine
(1972)Several people get more than they bargained for when volunteering for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory that goes wrong.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
(1958)An outlaw must decide whether to risk his neck to save a friend (James Best) from hanging in this hardboiled Western written by Out of the Past’s Daniel Mainwaring.

The Sweeter Side of Life
(2013)Desiree's perfect life as the wife of a high-powered Manhattan doctor comes to a sudden end when her husband says he wants a divorce and invokes their ironclad prenup to leave her penniless. Desiree soon finds herself abandoned by her rich friends and back in her New Jersey hometown helping her father in his struggling bakery. Though Desiree wants nothing more than to return to her high-class life, spending time with her father causes her to see things differently. She rediscovers her love of baking and puts her business degree to work to save her father's shop. Desiree's success at the bakery leads to an unexpected opportunity which forces her to choose between what she has lost and the new life she has found. Stars Kathryn Morris and James Best.

Man on the Prowl
(1957)A psychotic man murders a date who resists his advances, and stalks another woman after killing his mother.

The Cimarron Kid
(1952)Wrongly blamed for a train robbery, Bill Doolin returns to his former gang, engaging in further heists and becoming a notorious outlaw.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
(1952)When the Kettles' eldest daughter Rosie wants to go to college, Ma and Pa Kettle enter the Cape Flattery County Fair to raise the money for her tuition. The events include a trotter race, for which Pa purchases an out-of-shape mare, and a bread- and jam-making contest that puts Ma's cooking skills to the test against their neighbor and rival, Birdie Hicks.

The Quick Gun
(1964)A gunslinger wanted for murder by an ungrateful town must convince its residents that his former gang is coming to stage a deadly raid.

Ride Lonesome
(1959)A bounty hunter escorts a killer to prison but allows his outlaw brother to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.

Shock Corridor
(1963)A reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.

Rolling Thunder
(1977)After Major Charles Rane returns home from a POW camp, his wife and son are murdered. Rane teams up with his war buddy Johnny to get revenge.

Moondance Alexander
(2007)After finding a lost pinto pony with the potential to be a champion jumper, a teen girl convinces his gruff owner to train them for a horse show.

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
(2021)Go behind the scenes with the casts, writers, directors, producers and SFX masters who made the great horror and Sci-Fi films of the 1950s.

Cast a Long Shadow
(1959)When a troubled cowboy inherits a ranch, he locks lips with an old flame and knocks fists with old rivals, while leading a cattle drive to Santa Fe.

Ode to Billy Joe
(1976)Bobbie Gentry's song is brought to life in a story about young love on the Mississippi Delta in the early 1950s, in which the long-held, mystifying secrets of the bridge are revealed.

The Left Handed Gun
(1958)Billy the Kid sets out for vengeance on the men who killed his mentor.

The Mountain Road
(1960)As refugees flee the oncoming war, a U.S. Army officer's sense of humanity and compassion is tested during a crucial mission to slow the Japanese advance into China.

Sounder
(1972)Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield scored Oscar nominations for their portrayals of a sharecropping family with a son who are divided by a prison stint.

Hooper
(1978)An esteemed stuntman invites a young hotshot to work on his latest film. The two men join forces to pull off a daring, seemingly impossible stunt.