Filmography (1965~1970)

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The seesaw years

Starring Glenn Ford

The Rounders (1965)

MGM
Director: Burt Kennedy
Screenplay:Burt Kennedy from the novel by Max Evans
Cast: Glenn Ford (Ben Jones), Henry Fonda, Sue Ann Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle

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Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford

Agreeable comedy-Western about two cowboys having a hard time breaking in a ornery horse. It was one of the sleepers of 1965;nothing much happens, but cast and scenery make it a pleasant way to kill the time. An oscar for the horse, it steals the movie!

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Rage/(El Mal)(1966)


Director: Gilberto Gazcon
Screenplay: Gilberto Gazcon, Fernando Mendez
Cast: Glenn Ford (Doc Reuben), Stella Stevens, David Reynoso,

Glenn Ford, Hope Lange

A Mexican low budget production, is too long for the little plot about misanthropic doctor Ford who contracts rabies and races the clock across Mexican desert to get help.

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A Time for Killing (1967)

Columbia
Director: Phil Karlson (Roger Corman)
Screenplay: Halsted Welles from the novel "The Southern blade" by Nelson & Shirley Wolford
Cast: Glenn Ford (major Charles Walcott), George Hamilton, Inger Stevens,Paul Peterson, Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford,

Glenn Ford, Kenneth Tobey

Violent, often ugly Civil War drama was begun by director Roger Corman and finished By Phil Karlson and pits Union Captain Ford against Confederate Major Hamilton who had scaped from a prison camp. The rivalry exacerbates when Hamilton rapes Ford's wife. The three leading actors save themselves, but the rest of the cast is wasted.

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Day of the Evil Gun(1968)

MGM
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Screenplay: Charles Marquis Warren
Cast: Glenn Ford (Lorne Warfield), Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Paul fix, John Anderson, Barbara Babcock, Nico Minardos,Harry Dean Stanton, Pilar Pellicer

Shirley MacLaine, Glenn Ford

Very routine Western with Ford and Kennedy going after Indians who abducted Ford's wife. Ford is good as the silent and steadfast good man and Kennedy is smooth as the likable villain (as usual). The rest of the cast goes along.

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Smith! (1969)

Walt Disney Production
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Screenplay: Louis Pelletier
Cast: Glenn Ford (Smith), Nancy Olson, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Warren Oates, Chief Dan George, Frank Ramirez

Borgnine,Ford

Offbeat Disney drama of stubborn,pro-indian farmer(GF) who steps forward to help indian accused of murder.
Well done with good characterizations, but low-key qualities soften impact.

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MCRD, San Diego(1969)

Documentary short of the Training of the US Marines Corps.
Ford narrates.

Nothing for Granted (1970)
The story of the Navy's Test and Evaluation Force.
Glenn Ford narrates the short documentary

The Money Trap (1965)

MGM
Director: Burt Kennedy
Screenplay:Walter Bernstein from a novel by Lionel White
Cast: Glenn Ford (Joe Baron), Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten, Ricardo Montalban, Tom Reese, James Mitchum, Argentina Brunetti

Ernest Borgnine, Valerie French& Glenn Ford

Ford is detective turned crook in pedestrian murder yarn, one of the few non Western Burt Kennedy's films. Hayworth, paired with Ford for the fith time is most convincing as a middle aged woman no longer self-sufficient.

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Paris brule-t-il?(1966)
(Is Paris Burning?)

Paramount
Director: Rene Clement
Screenplay:Dominique LaPierre from Larry Collins book.
Cast: JeanPaul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Daniel Gelin, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Gert Froebe,Glenn Ford (Lt.Gen. Omar N. Bradley), Kirk Douglas

Glenn Ford, Hope Lange

Good movie telling the true story of the departure of the German occupiers from Paris in 1944. Great French cast. Ford has a cameo as General Bradley, Douglas was Patton.

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The Last Challenge (1967)

MGM
Director: Richard Thorpe
Screenplay: Albert Maltz
Cast: Glenn Ford (marshall Dan Blaine),Chad Everett, Angie Dickinson, Gary Merrill, Jack Elam,

Glenn Ford,

Punk Everett is out to get Marshall Ford in well cast but routine Western. Since Angie Dickinson is the Saloon-Keeper one demands himself why they did not settle their differences at the bar over a drink.

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Angie Dickinson, Glenn Ford

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Heaven With a Gun(1969)

MGM
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Screenplay:Richard Carr
Cast: Glenn Ford (Jim Killian/Pastor Jim),Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine, J.D. Cannon, Noah Beery Jr.,

Glenn Ford

Peace loving man is forced to return to a world of violence in the old West when he is involved,against his will, in feud between cattle-baron and settlers. the film was uneven, but well received by oaters lovers.

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The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)TV


Director: Paul Wendkos
Screenplay:David Karp
Cast: Glenn Ford (prof.Andrew Patterson), Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans, Will Geer, Eduard Franz, William Conrad, Robert Pine, Dabney Coleman

Glenn Ford, Red Buttons

A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past. In his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society; and now the society has a job for him. Absolutely one of the finest of all "secret society" plots with a great Ford and Jagger at the helm.
It was Glenn Ford first work for the small screen and a triumphant debut into the world of television.

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