In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and...
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1945
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Judging by such films as Shadows of Suspicion, it's too bad that leading man Peter Cookson eventually elected to leave the...
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1944
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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1943
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Among the few wartime comedies that are still genuinely funny today, Monogram's One Thrilling Night (aka Horace Takes Over)....
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1942
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Long forgotten, Monogram's Man With Two Lives has recently resurfaced on the videocassette market, proving itself a most...
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1942
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A true "guilty pleasure" crime melodrama with horror movie touches, the low-budget The Living Ghost stars future Academy...
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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1942
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Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by...
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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1941
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Idealistic black doctor James Dunbar (Ralph Cooper) wants to minister to his people in Harlem, and to this end sets up a free...
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1940
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In this western, a good-guy must halt a battle between cattle ranchers and settlers. An outlaw exploits the feud by working...
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1938
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Ranger Bob Steele goes after the bandit who killed his colleague in this low-budget oater from Supreme Pictures Corp., which...
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1938
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1938
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Bantam-weight cowboy star Bob Steele stars in Thunder in the Desert. If you're familiar with Steele, you'll know that he was...
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1938
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A B-Western of the old school, Durango Valley Raiders stars diminutive Bob Steele as Keene Cordner, a drifter who obtains the...
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1938
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In this western, a cattleman's son and a homesteader's daughter fall in love, but find their love thwarted by a...
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1937
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Bob Steele once again goes in search for the outlaw who murdered his father in this average Western released by Republic...
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1937
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Acting upon the belief that he accidentally murdered his best pal, a gunman swears never to draw his weapon again. ~ Jason...
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1937
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A murdered entomologist, an inscrutable Asian, and a sinister cowboy with rape on his mind are but a few of the many strange...
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1937
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To those well versed in the Bob Steelewesterns of the 1930s, it's hardly surprising to reveal that the plot of Arizona...
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1937
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Boothill Brigade stars Johnny Mack Brown as frontier do-gooder Lon Cardigan. Villainous land-grabber John Porter...
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1937
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1937
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Bob Steele -- or, as he was known in the trade papers, "Our Bob" -- stars as Tom Shaw, the courageous foreman of the ranch...
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1937
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No, we don't get to see Johnny Mack Brown's mother in labor in A Lawman is Born. Brown is "born" as a star packer when he's...
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1937
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In this western, a tough hombre begins stalking his brother's killer. He shows up during a range war and because he is a...
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1937
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Paroled-to Die was one of Bob Steele's best starring westerns for producer A. W. Hackel. Wasting precious little time with...
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1937
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In this western, brand new rancher Bob Steele, a former gunslinger in search of a more peaceful life, finds his quiet...
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1937
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Though A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures went belly-up in 1936, he continued grinding out his popular Bob Steele westerns,...
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1937
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The 1937 Bob Steele western Ridin' the Lone Trail was released by the legendary Republic Studios, but it was filmed...
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1937
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in this middling western entry. The former high-school football hero plays a Texas Ranger, who early...
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1937
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A disgruntled ranger quits his job after a crooked state's attorney manages to get a case of murder thrown out of court in...
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1937
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Bar Z Bad Men is a slick 1930s oater showcasing Johnny Mack Brown. Per the title, Brown signs on as ranchhand at the Bar Z....
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1937
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This above-average Johnny Mack Brown Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures features the bizarre spectacle of...
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1936
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Veteran silent screen star William Farnum earns one of his more prominent talking picture roles in this otherwise standard...
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1936
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Western favorite Bob Steele stars as Sundown Saunders, so named because of his remarkable ability to win at poker just at the...
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1936
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Produced by low-budget company Supreme Pictures (which weren't), this middling B-western was saved somewhat by its personable...
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1936
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Last of the Warrens is ever-so-slightly better than most of Bob Steele's westerns for A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures. Once...
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1936
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An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in...
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1936
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Bob Steele goes in search of the outlaw who killed both his parents and stole a valuable ring in this pedestrian western from...
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1936
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Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father in this...
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1936
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1936
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Bob Steele plays a Boy in Blue in the low-budget western Cavalry. The diminutive Steele leads his troopers against all manner...
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1936
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Directed by former film editor S. Roy Luby, this above-average mystery-western starred Johnny Mack Brown as Billy Donovan, a...
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1936
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1936
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Nobody is what he (or she) appears to be in this above-average western starring Bob Steele and directed by his father, Robert...
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1935
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Released in the wake of the spooky The Big Calibre (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the spectacle of a villain...
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1935
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An apparently lost entry in the long-running Bob Steele Western series produced by A.W. Hackel, The Rider of the Law...
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1935
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In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of...
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1935
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1935
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Released in the wake of the bizarre Big Calibre (1935), this below-average Bob Steele Western directed by his father Robert...
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1935
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1935
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Filmed simultaneously with Alias John Law, this rather complicated Western from low-budget Supreme Pictures featured wiry Bob...
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1935
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Filmed simultaneously with the earlier release No Man's Range (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the diminutive hero as...
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1935
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In his second Western for Poverty Row producer A.W. Hackel, former football star Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of both his...
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1935
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The 1934 B western Tombstone Terror could also have been titled All in the Family. Its star is Bob Steele, and its director...
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1934
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In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking...
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1934
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An above-average cast makes up for the lack of production values in this, the second of 32 Bob Steele Westerns produced by...
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1934
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