James Lee Barrett
Date of Birth: 19 Nov 1929
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 23 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother... (imdb)
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The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. (imdb)
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Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General (imdb)
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Ruby Jean and Joe (1996) - TV Movie
The elderly and fading rodeo-rider Joe Wade (Tom Selleck) picks up the young female hitchhiker Ruby Jean (Rebekah Johnson). Even though that Joe is constantly being corrected by Ruby Jean their beginning friendship is growing. Their conversations on the road puts both of them in a position to deal with their lives. (imdb)
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The Quick and the Dead (1987) - TV Movie
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang. (imdb)
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Charlie Anderson is a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia and finds himself (and his family) in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war because he believes that this is not "his" war. But he eventually has to get involved when his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North. (imdb)
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An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution (imdb)
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After the Civil War, former Union colonel John Wayne leads his men across the border to deliver 3,000 horses to Mexico, while ex-Confederate colonel Rock Hudson, a rival, takes a group of displaced Southern settlers to the country to make a new home for themselves. After the two groups meet and a drunken brawl breaks out, Wayne tries to save Hudson and his group when they are taken hostage a by a ruthless Mexican military man. (Movies Unlimited)
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When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check. (imdb)
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Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier. (imdb)
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Stagecoach (1986) - TV Movie
Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday. (imdb)
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In this unforgettable drama, Jack Webb (who also directed) plays a gruff Marine drill sergeant charged with whipping new recruits into shape. Ordered by his commanding officer to turn a timid private into a tough Marine in just three days, he faces the toughest challenge of his distinguished career. (imdb)
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Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South. (imdb)
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The Defiant Ones (1986) - TV Movie
Carl Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson share some things: They are both in jail and they both hate each other. After a fist fight the are going to be put into an other jailhouse by car. They come to blows so wild that their transport has an accident. They manage to escape chained to each other, still hating each other and the sheriff hunting them. (imdb)
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Warden of Red Rock (2001) - TV Movie
In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the man's widow, Flinders finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile, a new convict, Mike Sullivan, turns out to be an old friend of Flinders'. They talk over old times, but it's clear that Sullivan has plans to leave the prison before his time is up. When those plans come to pass, Flinders sets out to re-take his old pal. (imdb)
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April Morning (1988) - TV Movie
The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signaling the start of the American Revolution. Faithful to author Howard Fast's somewhat revisionist view that the skirmishes between the Colonial militia and the British troops in Lexington and Concord (Massachusetts) were precipitated as much by fervent American patriots led by Solomon Chandler as by any "Redcoat" belligerence. (imdb)
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Belle Starr (1980) - TV Movie
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys. (imdb)
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Poker Alice (1987) - TV Movie
Alice Moffit, 'Poker Alice', has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. She is travelling the West with her cousin, John, when she wins a house in a poker game on a train. The 'house' turns out to be a bordello, which she decides to run until she can sell it. She falls for a bounty hunter, Jeremy Collins, who is about to settle down in California. Marrying him would mean ending the life-long relationship between the two cousins. (imdb)
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986) - TV Movie
One man's crusade to seek justice for his murdered parents in a small South Carolina town. (imdb)
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Angel City (1980) - TV Movie
About a dirt poor family who pack all they have into their beat up pick up truck and head out in search of something better. They find work as migrant farm workers picking crops. They also quickly learn that their employment comes with a cost. They are held as virtual prisoners on what could be described as a cross between a slave plantation and a concentration camp. The corrupt head honcho has also developed a system to keep his employees from fleeing.
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The Awakening Land (1978) - TV Mini-Series
Frontierswoman Sayward Luckett's struggles in Ohio during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century. (imdb)
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The Day Christ Died (1980) - TV Movie
The Day Christ Died is a 1980 American TV movie directed by James Cellan Jones. The collaborative production by 20th Century Fox and CBS-TV dramatizes the last 24 hours of Jesus Christ's life and is based on Jim Bishop's 1957 book of the same name.
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A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dogmeat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range. (imdb)
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