Elmore Leonard Adaptations
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1. Justified (2010–2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Enforcing his own brand of justice, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a strong-willed, quiet law-man haunted by his past, returns to his native town to see that justice is served to those in need.
Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts
Votes: 118,843
2. Get Shorty (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Crime
The adventures of a mobster-turned-movie producer in Hollywood. TV show based on Elmore Leonard's novel and subsequent film.
Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Ray Romano, Sean Bridgers, Carolyn Dodd
Votes: 8,447
3. Maximum Bob (1998)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife. The sheriff is a widower who ballroom ... See full summary »
Stars: Beau Bridges, Liz Vassey, Sam Robards, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 314
4. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman
Votes: 331,199 | Gross: $53.61M
5. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Votes: 21,665
6. Jackie Brown (1997)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Votes: 375,260 | Gross: $39.67M
7. Hombre (1967)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Western
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento
Votes: 13,847
8. The Return of Desperado (1988 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama, Western
This second entry in the "Desperado" film series again follows Duell McCall, a wandering cowboy who's been framed for murder. He hides in a small town run by black folk who are trying to protect themselves from a greedy landowner.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Alex McArthur, Robert Foxworth, Marcy Walker, Victor Love
Votes: 143
9. The Tall T (1957)
Approved | 78 min | Western
An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 6,159
10. Desperado (1987 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Western
Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but romance with local girl Nora gets him involved in a feud between the town boss and Nora's dad.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Alex McArthur, David Warner, Yaphet Kotto, Donald Moffat
Votes: 339
11. Karen Sisco (2003–2007)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The adventures of U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco in Miami.
Stars: Carla Gugino, Bill Duke, Robert Forster, Jeffrey De Serrano
Votes: 948
12. Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Western
Framed cowboy drifter Duell McCall poses as sheriff in a town run by corrupt businessmen.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Alex McArthur, John Rhys-Davies, James Sikking, Gregory Sierra
Votes: 185
13. Last Stand at Saber River (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Action, Drama, Western
After the Civil War, a returning Confederate veteran must reclaim his Arizona land and homestead from the Yankee carpetbaggers who illegally occupy it.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Rachel Duncan, Haley Joel Osment
Votes: 2,143
14. Out of Sight (1998)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn
Votes: 99,367 | Gross: $37.56M
15. Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Western
A deputy catches Duell and is bringing him in and some men who want the reward try to get Duell from the deputy. There's a gunfight and Duell's the only one left alive. He then assumes the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Alex McArthur, Hoyt Axton, Alice Adair, Dwier Brown
Votes: 151
16. Sparks (I) (2009)
24 min | Short, Drama
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Stars: Carla Gugino, Eric Stoltz, Xander Berkeley, Elizabeth Clemmons
Votes: 146
17. Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Western
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in ... See full summary »
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Alex McArthur, Richard Farnsworth, James Remar, Brad Dourif
Votes: 231
18. The Tonto Woman (2008)
35 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A white woman is kidnapped from her home by Apache Indians who then trade her to the Mojave Indians. She lives as a squaw for 11 years until she is found by her husband. Considering her ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Barber | Stars: Charlotte Asprey, Francesco Quinn, Richard Brake, Sam Douglas
Votes: 642
19. Get Shorty (1995)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, John Travolta
Votes: 89,169 | Gross: $72.08M
20. Valdez Is Coming (1971)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Western
A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher
Votes: 4,534 | Gross: $0.06M
21. Mr. Majestyk (1974)
PG | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell
Votes: 9,828 | Gross: $0.13M
22. Joe Kidd (1972)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Western
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud
Votes: 21,208
23. 52 Pick-Up (1986)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover
Votes: 7,019 | Gross: $5.19M
24. Freaky Deaky (2012)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.
Director: Charles Matthau | Stars: Billy Burke, Christian Slater, Crispin Glover, Michael Jai White
Votes: 24,202
25. Killshot (2008)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Thomas Jane, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Brandon McGibbon
Votes: 21,990 | Gross: $0.02M
26. The Moonshine War (1970)
GP | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson
Votes: 680
27.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
Moment of Vengeance
(1956)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Ward Bond, Lane Bradford, Angie Dickinson, Myron Healey
Votes: 15
28. Pronto (1997 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time ... See full summary »
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Peter Falk, Glenne Headly, James Le Gros, Sergio Castellitto
Votes: 231
29. The Rosary Murders (1987)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Josef Sommer
Votes: 1,696 | Gross: $1.73M
30. Life of Crime (2013)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
Director: Daniel Schechter | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Yasiin Bey, Isla Fisher, Will Forte
Votes: 20,218 | Gross: $0.26M
31. Stick (1985)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.
Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning
Votes: 2,310 | Gross: $8.49M
32. Gold Coast (1997 TV Movie)
R | 109 min | Drama
Karen's married to Frank, a millionaire who has no morals and a hypocrite. it's alright for him to fool around but not for her. So when she has an affair and brags to him about it, he vows ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Weller | Stars: David Caruso, Barry Primus, Marg Helgenberger, Jeff Kober
Votes: 395
33. Be Cool (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.
Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 72,196 | Gross: $56.05M
34. Touch (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, LL Cool J
Votes: 2,716 | Gross: $0.41M
35. The Arrangement (2013 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.
Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Bryan Greenberg, Michelle LaBret, Stephanie Sigman, Manolo Cardona
Votes: 485
36. The Big Bounce (1969)
R | 102 min | Drama
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Director: Alex March | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant
Votes: 461
37. The Ambassador (1984)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi
Votes: 942
38. High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Western
Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical Marshal who abuses his power.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Lee Majors, David Carradine, J.A. Preston, Michael Pataki
Votes: 348
39. Glitz (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Thriller
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against. Vincent's girlfriend leaves him for a job as a "hostess" in an... See full summary »
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Jimmy Smits, Markie Post, John Diehl, Madison Mason
Votes: 178
40. Split Images (1992 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
A journalist knows more about a grisly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her.
Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Robert Collins, Rebecca Jenkins, Steve Whistance-Smith
Votes: 78
41. Cat Chaser (1989)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 1,514
42. The Big Bounce (2004)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischevious, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Sara Foster
Votes: 18,808 | Gross: $6.47M
43. Border Shootout (1990)
Not Rated | 96 min | Western
Young rancher Kirby Frye is appointed deputy in a small town tyrannized by ruthless Phil Sundeen, the son of one of the founders of the town.
Director: Chris McIntyre | Stars: Michael Forest, Cody Glenn, Michael Horse, Sergio Calderón
Votes: 171
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