Ward Bond

Ward Bond

April 9, 1903 · 123 years old

Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than 200 films, as well as in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1961. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert the cop in Fran…

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

8.6
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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

7.9
3
The Searchers

The Searchers

1956 · 1h 59m · Movie

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

7.8
4
Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

1959 · 2h 21m · Movie

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

8.0
5
Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

1938 · 1h 42m · Movie

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

7.8
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The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

1952 · 2h 9m · Movie

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.

7.7
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My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

1946 · 1h 37m · Movie

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

7.7
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Fort Apache

Fort Apache

1948 · 2h 8m · Movie

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.

7.4
9
Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar

1954 · 1h 50m · Movie

After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

7.6
10
Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941 · 2h 14m · Movie

A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

7.7
11
Hondo

Hondo

1953 · 1h 23m · Movie

Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.

7.0
12
3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

1948 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.

7.0
13
They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

1945 · 2h 15m · Movie

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.

7.2
14
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · 1h 40m · Movie

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

7.5
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On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground

1951 · 1h 22m · Movie

Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

7.2
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You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once

1937 · 1h 26m · Movie

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

7.2
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Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

7.0
18
The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

1940 · 1h 45m · Movie

A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

6.9
19
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

1933 · 1h 36m · Movie

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

7.4
20
The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

6.6
21
The Big Trail

The Big Trail

1930 · 2h 5m · Movie

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

7.2
22
Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim

1942 · 1h 44m · Movie

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

7.5
23
Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

1948 · 2h 25m · Movie

The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.

6.4
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Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other

1939 · 1h 32m · Movie

While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.

6.2
25
Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle

1944 · 1h 27m · Movie

Ranch hand Rocklin arrives in town to start his new job but his employer has been murdered and the locals don't seem too friendly.

6.9
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The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line

1955 · 2h 18m · Movie

In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.

7.2
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Unconquered

Unconquered

1947 · 2h 26m · Movie

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

6.8
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The Oklahoma Kid

The Oklahoma Kid

1939 · 1h 25m · Movie

During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.

6.4
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Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage

1946 · 1h 32m · Movie

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

6.9
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The Fugitive

The Fugitive

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

6.3
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The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · 1h 38m · Movie

A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.

6.9
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

1950 · 1h 42m · Movie

Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.

7.1
33
Swamp Water

Swamp Water

1941 · 1h 28m · Movie

Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.

7.0
34
Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith

1931 · 1h 48m · Movie

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

6.2
35
Dakota

Dakota

1945 · 1h 22m · Movie

In 1871 Dakota, two crooked businessmen oppose the local wheat farmers and the railroad development to control the town of Fargo.

6.0
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Manpower

Manpower

1941 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

6.6