Movies starring John Ireland

A Walk in the Sun (1945)

117 mins     Drama, War      

Despite focussing on a group of American soldiers as they land in Italy during the 1943 invasion with a mission to fortify a farm house "A Walk in the Sun" is a very different sort of war movie. It is different because whilst...

My Darling Clementine (1946)

97 mins     Western      

To be honest I have lost track of the number of movies I have watched which are based upon the story of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the OK Corral, but rather than being bored by these movies they continue to entertain beca...

Railroaded! (1947)

71 mins     Crime, Drama      

I guess I'm just not or will ever be a sucker for film-noir, it's not that I dislike it, although I hate the general over use of the term, I just don't go wild about it. Take "Railroaded!" a 1947 film-noir by Anthony Mann whi...

Red River (1948)

133 mins     Action , Adventure , Western      

Howard Hawks's "Red River" is held in high esteem as one of the greatest westerns ever made and I am not going to disagree because this is a powerful movie on so many levels. The storyline is full of powerful moments as it te...

Vengeance Valley (1951)

83 mins     Western      

"Vengeance Valley" has many of the elements to make a very good movie, in amongst many recognizable names and faces there is Burt Lancaster, John Ireland and Joanne Dru and it features a Cain and Abel style storyline with jea...

The Good Die Young (1954)

100 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

"The Good Die Young" is a pretty decent stab at British film-noir with an interesting storyline of 4 men lead together through different forms of disappointment to try and stage a robbery. The only trouble is that whilst the ...

The Fast and the Furious (1955)

73 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery      

There is a scene in "The Fast and the Furious" where Dorothy Malone seems to be searching for her words and it made me think that either this movie was still being written when it went in to production or that it was a movie ...

The Glass Tomb (1955)

59 mins     Mystery      

"The Glass Tomb", once known as "The Glass Cage", is one of those movies which you think is just going to be a 59 minute style noir as we have a woman who is murdered and two innocent men who are connected finding themselves ...

Gunslinger (1956)

71 mins     Western      

Gunslinger (1956) John Ireland is the hired killer hired by a saloon owner to kill the woman marshal but ends up falling for her instead...

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

122 mins     Western      

The story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral has featured in various movies over the years, but whilst most versions are entertaining only two really standout those of "Tombstone" starring Kurt Ru...

Party Girl (1958)

99 mins     Drama      

"Party Girl" is a fascinating movie not so much for how esteemed director Nicolas Ray directs it or for the performance of Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse but because of the storyline and how it progresses. It takes us on a jo...

Spartacus (1960)

184 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama      

There is no denying that "Spartacus" is an impressive movie, epic in scale and full of drama and action but at the same time it is a movie which is flawed, flaws which stop it from being great. As such for everything which is...

Faces in the Dark (1960)

84 mins     Thriller      

9 out of 10 movies I have watched which not only give us a good guy actor playing a bad guy but then making the bad guy the central role end up failing. It is that aspect of how can we champion someone who we don't like becau...

Wild in the Country (1961)

114 mins     Drama      

The most annoying thing about Elvis's movie career is that people remember him for the tacky, musical movies which stuck rigidly to a formula but they don't remember the handful of movies he made early on in his career which ...

55 Days at Peking (1963)

154 mins     Action , Drama      

Let me tackle the elephant in the room which of course is western actors playing eastern roles which when judged by today's ethics is wrong. There is no denying that but "55 Days at Peking" is a movie which is over 50 years o...

Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988)

93 mins     TV Movie, Western      

I reckon I can trace my love of westerns back to my childhood during the 70s and 80s when I would regularly watch the re-runs of "The High Chaparral" and "Bonanza" and whilst I haven't seen either in decades and remember litt...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988)

95 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988) Perry Mason comes to the aid of a former tennis star who is accused of murdering his wife at the lake where as a teen her twin sister was killed during a kidnapping...

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)

104 mins     Comedy, Horror      

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat: the residents of Purgatory have a secret behind their wide brimmed hats and layers of sun block, they are vampires...