6 Best Jay Silverheels Movies

By Vlad Zakh · August 11, 2026

Jay Silverheels became one of the first Native American actors to reach mainstream Hollywood stardom and was later immortalised as television’s Tonto. Key Largo traps a veteran with a ruthless gangster, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre consumes prospectors with paranoia and greed, Yellow Sky sets bank robbers at odds over a woman and gold, and True Grit follows a marshal and a young woman after her father’s killer. Captain from Castile and Passage to Marseille round out the list.

True Grit (1969)

TMDB ★ 7.3

A tough, one-eyed marshal helps a determined young woman track down her father's killer.

Directed by Henry Hathaway · 2h 08m · Rated G

Where to watch

Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Yellow Sky (1948)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Hank Worden features in this western where a gang of outlaws hiding out in a ghost town clashes over a prospector's hidden gold.

Directed by William A. Wellman · 1h 38m · Rated NR

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Key Largo (1948)

TMDB ★ 7.5

A veteran and a hotel owner are held hostage by a returning gangster during a violent Florida storm.

Directed by John Huston · 1h 40m · Rated NR

Where to watch

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

IMDb ★ 8.2 RT 100% Metacritic 98

Three prospectors' search for gold in the Mexican mountains descends into greed and paranoia.

Directed by John Huston · 2h 06m · Rated NR

Won 3 Oscars18 wins & 5 nominations

Where to watch

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Captain from Castile (1947)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A young Spanish nobleman flees the Inquisition and joins Cortez's expedition to conquer the Aztec empire.

Directed by Henry King · 2h 20m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Passage to Marseille (1944)

TMDB ★ 6.6

Escaped convicts join the Free French forces to fight the Nazi occupation.

Directed by Michael Curtiz · 1h 49m · Rated PG

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Jay Silverheels Movies

True Grit (1969)

Yellow Sky (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Captain from Castile (1947)

Passage to Marseille (1944)

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