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Best Matt Clark movies

We present our ranking of the best Matt Clark movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Matt Clark.

TOP 25: Monte Walsh

Matt Clark as: Rufus Brady
Genre: Western
Release: 1970
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.


TOP 24: Class Action

Matt Clark as: Judge Symes
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 1991
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

TOP 23: The Laughing Policeman

Matt Clark as: Coronor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1973
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.


TOP 22: The Quick and the Dead

Matt Clark as: Doc Shabitt
Genre: Action, Drama, Western, TV Movie
Release: 1987
In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.


TOP 21: Honkytonk Man

Matt Clark as: Virgil
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 1982
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.

TOP 20: White Lightning

Matt Clark as: Dude Watson
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Release: 1973
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.


TOP 19: The Culpepper Cattle Co.

Matt Clark as: Pete
Genre: Western
Release: 1972
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.


TOP 18: The Grissom Gang

Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1971
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.

TOP 17: Return to Oz

Matt Clark as: Uncle Henry
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Release: 1985
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.


TOP 16: Will Penny

Matt Clark as: Romulus Quint
Genre: Western, Romance
Release: 1967
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.


TOP 15: The Bridge at Remagen

Matt Clark as: Cpl. Jellicoe
Genre: History, War, Action
Release: 1969
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.

TOP 14: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Matt Clark as: Nick the Grub
Genre: Western
Release: 1972
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.


TOP 13: Emperor of the North

Matt Clark as: Yardlet
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller
Release: 1973
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.


TOP 12: Cadence

Matt Clark as: Bean Sr.
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.


TOP 11: The Beguiled

Matt Clark as: Scrogins
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Release: 1971
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

TOP 10: Brubaker

Matt Clark as: Roy Purcell
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1980
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.


TOP 9: The Way

Matt Clark as: Padre Frank
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2010
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.


TOP 8: 42

Matt Clark as: Luther
Genre: Drama
Release: 2013
The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show.


TOP 7: The Driver

Matt Clark as: Red Plainclothesman
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1978
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.


TOP 6: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Matt Clark as: J.W. Bell
Genre: Western
Release: 1973
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

TOP 5: The Cowboys

Matt Clark as: Smiley
Genre: Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
Release: 1972
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.


TOP 4: Jeremiah Johnson

Matt Clark as: Qualen
Genre: Adventure, Western, History
Release: 1972
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.


TOP 3: Back to the Future Part III

Matt Clark as: Bartender
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 1990
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.


TOP 2: The Outlaw Josey Wales

Matt Clark as: Kelly
Genre: Western
Release: 1976
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.


TOP 1: In the Heat of the Night

Matt Clark as: Packy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1967
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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