The Best Jeff Chandler Movies

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List of the best Jeff Chandler movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Jeff Chandler's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Jeff Chandler movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Jeff Chandler movies will be at the top of the list. Jeff Chandler has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Jeff Chandler movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Jeff Chandler films to end the squabble once and for all.

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List contains films like PIllars of the Sky, Johnny O'Clock.

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  • Merrill's Marauders
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    Merrill's Marauders

    Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
    31 votes
    • Released: 1962
    • Directed by: Samuel Fuller
    During World War II, Brig. Gen. Merrill (Jeff Chandler) commands a unit of 3000 soldiers, known as "Merrill's Marauders," on a secret mission through Burma, which is occupied by the Japanese. With the help of an elite intelligence troop, headed by 2nd Lt. Stockton (Ty Hardin), the Marauders manage to traverse hundreds of miles of jungle unnoticed. But, as soon as they make it out alive, they're informed by military higher-ups that they've completed only the first of many harrowing objectives.

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  • The Plunderers
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    The Plunderers

    Jeff Chandler, John Saxon, Dolores Hart
    11 votes
    • Released: 1960
    • Directed by: Joseph Pevney
    Four toughs intent on ransacking a town find their plans thwarted by a one-armed Civil War hero and his brutish pal.

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  • PIllars of the Sky
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    PIllars of the Sky

    Dorothy Malone, Jeff Chandler, Maureen Hingert
    11 votes
    • Released: 1956
    • Directed by: George Marshall
    Pillars of the Sky is an American western film in Technicolor and CinemaScope, released by Universal-International on October 12, 1956. Directed by George Marshall, it stars Jeff Chandler and Dorothy Malone, with co-stars Ward Bond, Keith Andes and Lee Marvin.
  • Foxfire
    4

    Foxfire

    Jane Russell, Mara Corday, Dan Duryea
    30 votes
    • Released: 1955
    • Directed by: Joseph Pevney
    Foxfire is a 1955 Hollywood motion picture, that starred Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler. Foxfire is historically notable in that it was the last American film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor, which process had been displaced by the coarser-grained and less chromatically saturated, but much cheaper, Eastmancolor single-strip process.
  • Broken Arrow
    5

    Broken Arrow

    James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
    36 votes
    • Released: 1950
    • Directed by: Delmer Daves
    For a decade, the white settlers and the Apaches have been engaged in a bloody war with no peaceful end in sight. When a white scout, Tom Jeffords (James Stewart), has a dangerously close but enlightening encounter with the natives, he begins to see the humanity in these "enemies." Entering the Apache territory seeking peace, Jeffords forms a friendship with the Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler), although there are people on both sides who resist extending the olive branch.

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  • Man in the Shadow
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    Man in the Shadow

    Orson Welles, Jeff Chandler, James Gleason
    21 votes
    • Released: 1957
    • Directed by: Jack Arnold
    Man in the Shadow is a CinemaScope crime film starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, and John Larch.

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