Top 10 Action Movies of 1960
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- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsYul BrynnerSteve McQueenCharles BronsonSeven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
- DirectorHall BartlettStarsAlan LaddSidney PoitierJames DarrenDuring the Korean War, a platoon leader dies, leaving his inexperienced black Sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsJames StewartLisa LuGlenn CorbettA US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJames BrownJohn WilderWalter CoyMatt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Bill, now a struggling rancher, refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with the gang.
- DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJeff ChandlerJohn SaxonDolores HartWhen four rowdy cowhands ride into a small town and make trouble, no one seems willing or able to take them on, not even Sam Christy, the toughest man in town. But then there is a murder.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsWillard ParkerAllison HayesDan SimmonsPrivate detective Stephen Dancer is snooping around in the activities of some heroin dealers and they object strongly; first he is wounded by a sniper firing a high-powered rifle, then he gets a bomb tossed at him, and then is ambushed at a rendezvous at the lily pond. Finally, gang-moll Sharon Hill vamps him to distraction and she is able to shoot him. Lots of people get shot in this one, and some of them survive, but most don't.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsJohn HudsonLynette BernayEd NelsonWayne Randall, a safe-cracker,and his two accomplices, Jan Spencer and Dino Michaelis, are hiding in the mountains of northern California, following a heist of a $81,000 payroll at a lumber-mill. It only takes less than an hour to prove that honor-among-thieves runs a long-distance second to greed-among-thieves.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBrian KeithJohn BealJames DruryMajor John Wesley Powell leads an expedition through the Grand Canyon to chart the Colorado River.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
- DirectorJorge López PortilloStarsJeff MorrowMerry AndersJim RossA Texas Marshal transports five female prisoners to prison but their stagecoach is attacked en route by the Comanches and the ex-husband of one prisoner attempts to free her.
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsAudie MurphyBarry SullivanVenetia StevensonA Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsAudie MurphyFelicia FarrStephen McNallyMistaken for a murderous outlaw, an innocent passerby is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by catching the real culprit.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsGordon ScottJock MahoneyBetta St. JohnA clever crook and a romantic triangle complicate Tarzan's efforts to bring a wanted criminal to justice.