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Burt Kennedy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Burt Kennedy (September 3, 1922 - February 15, 2001) was an American screenwriter and director known for mainly directing film Westerns. After World War II service in the 1st Cavalry Division, Muskegon, Michigan-born Kennedy found work writing for radio, then used his training as a cavalry officer to secur... more

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Burt Kennedy (September 3, 1922 - February 15, 2001) was an American screenwriter and director known for mainly directing film Westerns. After World War II service in the 1st Cavalry Division, Muskegon, Michigan-born Kennedy found work writing for radio, then used his training as a cavalry officer to secure a job as a fencing trainer and fencing stunt doubles in films. That led to Kennedy being hired to write for a television program with a fencing theme for John Wayne's Batjac productions. Although the TV program was never produced it led the young writer to write screenplays for a number of Batjac films starting with the 1956 film Seven Men from Now. In the 1960s, after also becoming a film director, Kennedy moved on to write for western television programs.

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
(1969)
Comedy, Western
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he wil...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam
7.5
75%
N/A
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The War Wagon
(1967)
Western
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker, Jr., Keenan Wynn
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
(1971)
Action, Comedy, Western
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell
6.9
62%
N/A
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The Train Robbers
(1973)
Action, Western
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, John Wayne
6.4
20%
N/A
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Return of the Seven
(1966)
Western
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Claude Akins
5.5
13%
N/A
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Hannie Caulder
(1971)
Crime, Drama, Western
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee, Jack Elam
6.4
N/A
N/A
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The Rounders
(1965)
Comedy, Western
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking i...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Suburban Commando
(1991)
Action, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers a...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller, William Ball
4.5
15%
N/A
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Welcome to Hard Times
(1967)
Western
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, Warren Oates
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(1969)
Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Older lawman Marshal Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is struggling to transition from the Old West to the more modernized one -- so much so that Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam) forces him into retirement. Not one to go away easily, Flagg quickly fixates on his old nemesis, McKay (George Kennedy), formerly believed to be dead, who is now back in to...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Young Billy Young
(1969)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, David Carradine, Paul Fix, Robert Walker, Jr.
5.8
N/A
N/A
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The Money Trap
(1965)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cop turns to crime to keep his spoiled sexy young wife happy. When the money starts coming in his partner was in on the action.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten, Ricardo Montalban
6.4
N/A
N/A
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
(1987)
TV Movie, Western
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
Runtime:
140 min
6.2
N/A
N/A
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All the Kind Strangers
(1974)
Horror, TV Movie, Thriller
An LA photographer, driving through backwoods country, spots a young boy walking on the side of the road and offers him a ride home. After reaching the isolated house, he discovers that the boy and his siblings are keeping a woman prisoner as their "mom" and now he is expected to be their "dad"...or else.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robby Benson, Arlene Farber
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Dirty Dingus Magee
(1970)
Comedy, Western
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so ...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Lois Nettleton, Jack Elam
5.2
N/A
N/A
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Mail Order Bride
(1964)
Comedy, Western
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Runtime:
83 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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The Killer Inside Me
(1976)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Don Stroud
6.1
40%
N/A
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
(1979)
TV Movie, Western
In the year 1885. After years of retirement West is called in from his Mexican home, and Gordon is taken off the road as a Shakespearian actor to track down and arrest Dr. Michelito Loveless, Jr. The evil son of their most famous opponent has kidnapped the heads of state of countries from around the world and replaced them with deplica...
Runtime:
96 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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More Wild Wild West
(1980)
Adventure, TV Movie, Western
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
Runtime:
94 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Deserter
(1970)
Action, Western
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Down the Long Hills
(1986)
TV Movie, Western
1986 Western film Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills, directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Bruce Boxleitner.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Bruce Boxleitner, Bo Hopkins, Don Shanks, Ed Bruce, Buck Taylor
7.8
N/A
N/A
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The Rhinemann Exchange
(1977)
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
Runtime:
300 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
(1988)
TV Movie, Western
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Willie Nelson, Delta Burke, Jack Elam
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Big Bad John
(1990)
Action
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
Runtime:
92 min
5.7
N/A
N/A
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The Canadians
(1961)
Action, Drama, Western
When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one of their villages. The cowboys seek to get back their horses, but they pretend to search for a girl who once had been robbed by the Indians.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe, John Sutton
5.3
N/A
N/A
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Sidekicks
(1974)
Comedy, TV Movie, Western
This 1974 made-for-TV sequel to Skin Game (1971) brings back Lou Gossett, Jr. as Jason, with Larry Hagman taking over the role of Quince, played by James Garner in the first film. On the lam from their most recent scam, Quince and Jason find themselves mistaken for a pair of bank robbers, and at the mercy of an overzealous sheriff's da...
Runtime:
75 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Louis Gossett, Jr., Larry Hagman, Blythe Danner
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Trouble with Spies
(1987)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he a...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Hordern
4.0
N/A
N/A