What Audie Murphy films can you recommend? (1 Viewer)

[Carl David]

After watching many movies over the years both old and new my experiences of watching films has only had me seeing one Audie Murphy picture.

That picture was "No Name On The Bullet" and it blew me away how good not only the film was but the performance from Murphy too.

Was over a decade ago now that I first saw that movie but have never got around to checking out any of his other pictures.

With 50 movies to his credit on IMDb over a 20 year period it seems there must be a few more films that he starred in that still hold up after these many years.

Destry is one I have on my radar but that is about it.

Can anyone recommend any films he is in that are really good movies?

Not asking technically for any movies in which his performance are good but more specifically if any films he is in are actually good and worth watching.

 

[Tino]

To Hell And Back immediately comes to mind.

 

[Robert Crawford]

There are several Murphy films I like but here are some of my favorite recommendations:

Red Badge of Courage (John Huston Directed)
Night Passage (With James Stewart)
The Unforgiven (With Burt Lancaster & Audrey Hepburn)
Walk the Proud Land
The Duel at Silver Creek (Don Siegel Directed)
Gunsmoke
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel Directed)
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Cimarron Kid (Budd Boetticher Directed)

 

[Carl David]

There are several Murphy films I like but here are some of my favorite recommendations:

Red Badge of Courage (John Huston Directed)
Night Passage (With James Stewart)
The Unforgiven (With Burt Lancaster & Audrey Hepburn)
Walk the Proud Land
The Duel at Silver Creek (Don Siegel Directed)
Gunsmoke
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel Directed)
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Cimarron Kid (Budd Boetticher Directed)

Thanks!!!

Will check them out.

 

[Carl David]

To Hell And Back immediately comes to mind.

Will put that on the list, then.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Will put that on the list, then.

If Destry and To Hell and Back weren’t already named, both films would’ve been on my list.

 

[Carl David]

There are several Murphy films I like but here are some of my favorite recommendations:

Red Badge of Courage (John Huston Directed)
Night Passage (With James Stewart)
The Unforgiven (With Burt Lancaster & Audrey Hepburn)
Walk the Proud Land
The Duel at Silver Creek (Don Siegel Directed)
Gunsmoke
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel Directed)
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Cimarron Kid (Budd Boetticher Directed)

Have you seen Sierra?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Have you seen Sierra?

More than a few times. I've own it on DVD and now Blu-ray courtesy of Kino. A solid 1950s western.

 

[Carl David]

More than a few times. I've own it on DVD and now Blu-ray courtesy of Kino. A solid 1950s western.

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Curious as to why you did not put it on your list.

It got a 4 star rating by a reviewer so those choices you suggested must be really good indeed.

 

[David_B_K]

I like Ride Clear of Diablo. The always reliable Dan Duryea works well with Murphy, and the beautiful Abbe Lane plays a dance hall girl.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Curious as to why you did not put it on your list.

It got a 4 star rating by a reviewer so those choices you suggested must be really good indeed.

If you read that previous post again, which is quoted below, you will see that I clearly stated I liked several Murphy films, but I only listed some of my favorite recommendations. There are at least another 10-12 movies I can add to that list including Sierra and Ride Clear of Diablo.

There are several Murphy films I like but here are some of my favorite recommendations:

Red Badge of Courage (John Huston Directed)
Night Passage (With James Stewart)
The Unforgiven (With Burt Lancaster & Audrey Hepburn)
Walk the Proud Land
The Duel at Silver Creek (Don Siegel Directed)
Gunsmoke
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
The Gun Runners (Don Siegel Directed)
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Cimarron Kid (Budd Boetticher Directed)

 

[mackjay]

I can second the recommendations for at least two: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (a masterpiece, if only we could have Huston's complete version) and THE GUN RUNNERS, a very good adaptation of the Hemingway story previously filmed as TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and THE BREAKING POINT. It may not be fully their equal, but it's damned good, with Murphy at his best. I recently thoroughly enjoyed KANSAS RAIDERS..one of Murphy's early ones, with some very good future stars, Dewey Martin, Richard Long, Tony Curtis, terrific James Best as well as Scott Brady and Brian Donlevy

 

[MartinP.]

Also check out his Mytsery Guest appearance on What's My Line?

 

[F451]

Night Passage -- definitely.

 

[Mark McSherry]

Glenn Erickson reviews Audie Murphy's last screen appearance in A TIME FOR DYING. It's a cameo- one scene lasting four minutes, starting at the 44-minute mark of the 74-minute movie. I have to agree with most that that is the best part of the film. Glenn goes into the history of this Budd Boetticher/Audie Murphy co-production too. Available to view on YouTube.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Night Passage -- definitely.

It's among my 100 all-time favorite westerns. I love this movie!

 

[Mark-P]

Thanks guys. I love how perusing on the HTF gives me ideas on what to watch next. It’s been ages since I saw Night Passage, and I bought the German blu-ray 5 years ago and it’s been sitting on my shelf unwatched. I‘m finally going to enjoy it this week!

 

[jeremylr]

For latter-day Audie, 1965's "Arizona Raiders" is a jewel in the desert. Helmed by Tarantino favorite William Witney, Audie is surrounded by a top notch supporting cast with former Tarzan / Olympian Buster Crabbe, Ben Cooper, Gloria Talbott, Michael Dante, Ray Stricklyn, and George Keymas. Fast forward thru the ham-fisted extended opening reel where newspaper reporter Booth Colman narrates the backstory of Quantrill's Raiders. All it does is kill the momentum and must have been added to pad the western's running time. The savage violence, particularly the cactus torture rendered by the Yaqui Native Americans, is something I'm unaccustomed to seeing in non-spaghetti westerns of the era. Witney was on top of his game here in terms of action and character development. Dante and Keymas are two of Audie's most ruthless antagonists. Nearly everybody who meets their maker is given a memorable death sequence, especially Audie's buddy. And Audie's not just collecting a paycheck as the been there, done that hero in the white hat. He delivers as a conflicted former raider with a score to settle. Crabbe recruits him out of prison to become an undercover Texas Ranger and infiltrate the last vestiges of Quantrill's gang. But Audie would much rather hightail it to Mexico until kid brother Stricklyn nobly interferes…