This "modern" western stars Rod Cameron as opportunistic Korean war veteran Tully Gibbs. Posing as a friend of the late son...
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1955
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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Postal inspector Rex Allen rides hell bent for leather in order to save an innocent man from hanging in this enjoyable...
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1953
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Though he doesn't wield a sword nor wear a plumed hat, singing cowboy Rex Allen qualifies as The Last Musketeer in this...
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time...
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1951
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Yet another Roy Rogers Western whose title refers to a song, In Old Amarillo actually takes place in and around Amarillo of...
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1951
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Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long...
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1950
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In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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1950
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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Originally designed for church showings, Messenger of Peace was blown up from 16mm to 35mm and given a brief theatrical...
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1950
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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1949
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"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...
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1949
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve...
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1949
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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1947
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A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan...
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Sheriff
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1947
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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Wild Bill Hitchcock
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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A man down on his luck runs afoul of a beautiful but dangerous woman in this superior low-budget film noir. Mike Lambert...
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1947
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Charles Starrett once more assumes the guise of the Robin Hood-like Durango Kid in Last Days of Boot Hill. The star is cast...
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1947
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Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's...
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1947
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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1947
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1947
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Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946...
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1946
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Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate advantage when his gambler...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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Detective Flynn
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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A granddaughter's world begins to crumble when allegations of her grandfather say that he is a criminal. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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A loose remake of 1941's The Gay Falcon, The Falcon's Alibi is one of the better entries in RKO's "Falcon" series, and one of...
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1946
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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Honest John Richards
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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This gentle, tuneful western is one of cowboy crooner Roy Rogers' best and most successful films; it is also his personal...
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Wallace
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1946
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Columbia Pictures once again trotted out the old tale of rival stage lines competing for the valuable government mail...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story...
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1945
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Future film producer Ross Hunter heads the cast of Columbia's A Guy, a Gal and a Pal. Hunter is the "guy", serviceman Jimmy...
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1945
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1945
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Columbia Pictures "borrowed" a few pages from Damon Runyon when crafting this entry in the Durango Kid B-Western series. When...
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1945
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are...
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1944
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Best described as "cute," Petticoat Larceny was intended as a showcase for RKO Radio's latest juvenile discovery, 11-year-old...
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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1943
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In this western, a cowboy and his pals must stop outlaws from stealing a cache of gold ore. Action ensues, and they succeed....
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1943
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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1942
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Charles Starrett rides again as the Durango Kid. This time Durango investigates the murder of a town marshal, in which an...
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Sheriff Arnold
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1942
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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about...
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1942
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Considering the fact that it was the only Universal horror film directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis, it's a shame that...
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1942
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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1942
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In this low-budget thriller (which developed something of a cult following among film buffs in the '60s and '70s),...
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1941
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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1941
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a...
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1941
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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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1941
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1941
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The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the...
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Blazing Six Shooters is a by-the-numbers Charles Starrett western, with the same sets, supporting actors and plot devices...
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Bert Kargin
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1940
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Charles Starrett plays the title role in Stranger from Texas, but he's no stranger to the cliches inherent in the film's...
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1940
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From the same folks who brought us My Son is a Criminal comes the near-lookalike property My Son is Guilty. Veteran police...
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1940
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Veteran second-unit director and stunt coordinator Ralph Cedar warmed the director's chair for the 1940 Charles Starrett...
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1940
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West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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The second entry in RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian" series, Courageous Dr. Christian was like the first inspired by the popular...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Set in a northern California logging community the trouble in this western begins when a lumberjack is killed while sawing...
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Whittaker
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1939
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Too many of Gene Autry's Republic western sacrificed action in favor of music. A notable exception to this syndrome is Blue...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S....
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1939
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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1939
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The Man From Sundown is cut from the same cloth as all previous Charles Starrett westerns. The hero, Texas Ranger Larry...
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Slick Larson
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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1938
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In this desert adventure, a cruel commander viciously rules a regiment of foreign legionnaires. They tire of his brutality...
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1938
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In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires...
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Mark Sheldon
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Featuring the husband-and-wife team of Jack Randall and Louise Stanley, this lukewarm Monogram Western eschewed the musical...
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1938
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Unusually adult in tone, this excellent Hopalong Cassidy Western features Gwen Gaze as Lorna Drake, an aristocratic British...
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1938
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Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered...
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1938
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In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete...
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Sheriff
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1938
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The cornpone comedy of the Weaver Brothers & Elviry permeates this ramshackle Republic musical. The plot gets under way when...
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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It will do no good to look for Broderick Crawford in the cast of Highway Patrol; this is not the famed TV series of the...
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Jarvis
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1938
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Two Gun Law perpetuated the cinematic winning streak established early in 1937 by western star Charles Starrett and director...
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1937
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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Former nightclub crooner Smith Ballew made his singing-cowboy debut in Western Gold. Set during the Civil War, the story...
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1937
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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1937
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With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry), rival company Columbia found it necessary to add...
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1937
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1937
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In this western, a cowboy rides into Mesa and finds that he bears remarkable resemblance to a dead man. Actually he is the...
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Red Grindy
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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1937
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In this western, a lawman tries to help prove that his friend did not commit murder. He rides in and saves his pal from a...
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1937
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In this exciting western, a lawman and a postmistress work together to bring the outlaws to justice. The outlaws have been...
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1937
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Gene Autry and veteran Western director Jospeh Kane team up for this lightweight effort. Gene (Gene Autry) is the foreman of...
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1937
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Based on the turn-of-the-century dimestore novels of Bert L. Standish (real name: William Patton Gilbert), this slow-moving...
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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1936
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When widower Stephen Blake (Melvyn Douglas) and divorcee Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) are the only guests at a snowed-in...
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy's young sidekick, Johnny Nelson, is falsely accused of robbing the Bar 20 in this the fourth installment of...
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1936
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Republic's The Lawless Nineties reteams the studio's up-and-coming cowboy star John Wayne with 19-year-old ingenue...
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Steele
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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1936
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A very low-budget Western, Outlaw Rule stars former fullback Reb Russell as a lawman in disguise coming to the aid of a young...
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1936
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Trail Dust was the eighth entry in the 66-film "Hopalong Cassidy" series. William Boyd, of course, is Hoppy, while his...
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1936
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Stuffed dummies on horseback manage to fool a gang of munitions smugglers in this farfetched low-budget Western from the...
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Travis
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1936
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Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13...
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1936
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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1936
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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Though filmed on a tight budget, Universal's Trail Drive has the size and scope of a silent western epic, proof positive of...
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1935
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Making his debut as Columbia Pictures' new cowboy hero -- replacing, incidentally, the aging Tim McCoy -- handsome Charles...
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1935
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John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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Gene Autry's second starring western for Republic was the well-named Melody Trail. Unlike Autry's inaugural vehicle...
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Matt Kirby
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1935
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Silent screen Western star Jack Perrin plays a somewhat naive cowboy hired to innocently front the nefarious schemes of a...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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1935
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Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin'...
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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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1934
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1934
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Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and...
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1934
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This Tom Keene western casts the leading man as a lawkeeper who accidentally kills his best friend (Creighton Chaney, aka Lon...
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1933
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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Ken Maynard goes undercover to prove that his father (Horace B. Carpenter), a bank president, did not commit suicide but was...
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Burl Adams
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1933
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In this western, a persuasive young oil salesman persuades the residents of a small Texas town to invest in an oil well....
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1933
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The plot is in the title of Cowboy Counselor. Hoot Gibson plays a shiftless galoot who tries to make something of himself for...
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1933
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In this romantic western, a daring masked outlaw steals the gold from a crooked mining company and uses the loot to pay the...
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Slade
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1933
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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1933
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In this musical western, everybody sings, even the outlaws. The story follows a government agent who goes undercover as a...
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1933
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This western features a case of mistaken identity after a friendly cowboy is thought to be the dreaded outlaw "Denver Ed."...
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1933
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Mischa Auer's fake Swami Yomurda of Sinister Hands returned in Sucker Money, a crime drama set among newspaper reporters....
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George Hunter
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1933
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In his fourth of six inexpensive Westerns for Allied Pictures in 1932, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson played a foreman...
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Steve Cook
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1932
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A wagon train sequence and a stampede of buffaloes -- both courtesy of stock footage -- remain the most interesting features...
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O’Hara
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1932
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In his third Allied Pictures release of 1932, veteran screen cowboy Hoot Gibson played his favorite role, that of a...
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Tom Fallon
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1932
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In his first of six inexpensive Westerns for producer Trem Carr, bantam-weight cowboy ace Tom Steele played Tom Keene, a...
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1932
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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Ostensibly based on a story by pulp writer William Colt McDonald, this minor Western, filmed at Lone Pine, CA, starred Lane...
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Steve Cantrell
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Film editor Lloyd Nosler was afforded his first opportunity to direct with the Tom Tyler western Galloping Thru. Tyler plays...
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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1932
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Bob Steele's first Western of 1931, The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving...
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1931
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Although dismissed in its day as just another cheap Western, God's Country and the Man proves to be a surprisingly well-made...
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Screenwriter, Livermore
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1931
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Produced by Trem Carr, this enjoyable B-Western featured the strapping Tom Tyler, a cowboy performer who historically worked...
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1931
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