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Audie Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was a highly decorated American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who turned actor. He portrayed himself in the film To Hell and Back, the account of his World War II experiences. During the 1950s and 1960s he was cast primarily in westerns.
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II , [ 4 ] and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.
In a small town in 1880s Colorado, a gang of outlaws led by Drago (Morgan Woodward) rob a train and kidnap a saloon singer, Uvalde (Joan Staley).Determined to chase them down, the sheriff, Chad Lucas (Audie Murphy), forms a posse which includes Uvalde's fiancé, Nate Harlan (Warren Stevens), Mark Emerson, Nicos, and Lucas's deputy Cap (Denver Pyle) – who is secretly in league with the outlaws.
The film has come to be regarded as one of Murphy's best movies, with its fans including director Joe Dante. [5] Film writer Jeff Stafford stated that, "unlike most of Murphy's earlier Westerns, No Name on the Bullet has a philosophical edge, which makes it closer in tone to Ingmar Bergman 's The Seventh Seal (1957) than a six-gun oater like ...
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 American Western film produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Brown-Murphy Pictures. It was based on the 1955 short story "Petticoat Brigade" by Chester William Harrison (1913–1994) [2] that he expanded into a novelization for the film's release.
Cillian Murphy is receiving more praise—not necessarily for his acting performances but rather for his “heartbreaking” comment directed at women. The movie’s historical story immerses ...
Bullet for a Badman is a 1964 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Audie Murphy and Darren McGavin. [2] The film is based on the 1958 novel Renegade Posse by Marvin H. Albert. The film was shot between October and November 1963 [3] in Zion National Park and Snow Canyon State Park in Utah. [4]