James Best Trailers
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James Best (born Jewel Franklin Guy; July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015) was an American television, film, character, voice, and stage actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He appeared as a guest on various country music and talk shows.
One of the busiest actors in Hollywood, who began his contract career with Universal Studios in 1949, where he met unfamiliar actors Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson. Best's long career began in films in 1950. He appeared primarily in Westerns, playing opposite Audie Murphy in Kansas Raiders (1950), The Cimarron Kid (1952) and The Quick Gun (1964), Raymond Massey in Seven Angry Men (1955), George Montgomery in Last of the Badman (1957), Frank Lovejoy in Cole Younger Gunfighter (1958), and Randolph Scott in Ride Lonesome (1959). He also starred in the science fiction cult movie, The Killer Shrews (1959) and its sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012). He is most known for playing bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action/comedy Dukes of Hazzard, a role that he revised in The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) as his character was now "boss" of Hazzard County as well as sheriff, and again in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).
Most Popular James Best Trailers
Total trailers found: 73
21 December 1976
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production.
10 May 1978
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
28 July 1978
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
03 June 1965
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with.
20 May 1953
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory.
25 April 1997
Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race.
20 March 1953
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
15 November 2012
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.
22 April 2007
Curiously named teen Moondance Alexander lives with her eccentric mother, and is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers.
25 March 1959
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
09 May 1952
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son.
04 August 1954
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont.
01 April 1964
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
01 December 1957
A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).
01 July 1950
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs.
11 July 2013
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist.
01 May 1955
A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.
04 June 1976
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
30 March 1958
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
09 May 1956
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
23 March 1956
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years.
13 January 1952
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies.
25 August 1976
After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp.
14 January 1954
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
02 November 1956
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war.
02 November 1977
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly.
01 February 1959
On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
24 June 1954
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
01 May 1954
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
30 September 1956
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
15 November 1950
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
24 August 1959
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
15 June 1960
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces.
11 September 1953
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
22 November 1976
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
01 July 1952
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
01 January 1972
Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.
25 June 1959
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans.
28 May 1965
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
23 April 2006
A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.
02 July 2002
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
01 April 1951
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
09 March 1956
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help.
21 July 1962
Two friends join together to strike oil, court women, and battle an unscrupulous oilman politician during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s.
01 January 1998
Wilbur works in an old carnival and shows some gruesome things to the public. He covers his face because he had a sadistic father who burned his face as a child.
01 December 1970
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
25 September 1963
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
11 July 1952
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college.
13 July 2004
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad.
12 July 1950
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him.
15 February 1957
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
11 September 1974
Ben Campbell, a 22 year old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money.
09 May 1952
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up.
08 February 1951
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
24 September 1972
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
13 February 2021
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
24 March 1975
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
28 July 1954
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
24 January 1968
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
30 April 1958
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
