My top ten favourite Audie Murphy films - in no particular order:
1) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) - flawed masterpiece, with fine direction by John Huston;
2) Night Passage (1957) - one of James Stewart's lesser westerns but great to see him and Audie;
3) Six Black Horses (1962) - run of the mill stuff but I include it because its competence made it stand out in Audie's sixties output;
4) To Hell and Back (1955) - Audie as Audie makes this a less conventional war movie;
5) Kansas Raiders (1950) - Audie as Jesse James, terrific;
6) The Kid from Texas (1950) - Audie is brilliant as a juvenile delinquent Billy the Kid;
7) The Quiet American (1958) - Audie a little out of his element but a fascinating, if flawed, movie;
8) No Name on a Bullet (1958) - Audie meets Ingmar Bergman - I'm not kidding;
9) The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) - loved this Western, despite it not having the best reputation;
10) Gunsmoke (1953) - strong Western, one of his best "typical" vehicles from the period.
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