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1917
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This minor silent western was one in a series of inexpensive oaters produced by J.J. Fleming on location in Oregon....
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1925
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Although Al Ferguson had a face that was a natural for villains, he plays the hero in this routine Western, which he also...
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Director
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1925
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Silent serial star Ben Wilson was the penny-pinching producer of the 1926 feature Captain's Courage. Set in the North Woods,...
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1926
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Produced and directed by poverty row maven Benjamin F. Wilson (the "F" stood for Franklin!), this minor silent Western...
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Steve Mays
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1926
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1926
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A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew,...
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1926
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The familiar silent-screen serial team of Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber starred in this inexpensive western potboiler which...
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1926
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Producer-director Ben Wilson starred opposite his frequent screen partner, Neva Gerber, in this cheaply made silent western....
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1927
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Cowboy Arthur Weston (Dick Hatton) sulkily observes his girlfriend Mary Osbourn (Elsa Benham) doing the Charleston with...
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1927
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1928
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For some reason, this potentially very interesting silent Western from FBO remains the most obscure of the poverty row...
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1928
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1928
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Bob Gordon
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1928
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The era's greatest western star Tom Mix had left his safe berth with the Fox company by 1929 and was struggling on poverty...
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1929
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Stunt-man Cliff Lyons (billed as "Tex Lyons") starred in a series of ultra low-budget silent westerns produced and directed...
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1929
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Popular western star Ken Maynard crooned a couple of prairie tunes in this his first (part-)talkie, making Ken the screen's...
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1929
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1929
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In the opener of Universal's 15-chapter serial Tarzan the Tiger, Tarzan, aka Lord Greystoke (Frank Merrill), returns to...
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1929
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In one of his final silent Westerns for Universal, also-ran cowboy star Ted Wells played Ted Wayne, a smiling daredevil...
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1929
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Trapped in a noose rigged by the unscrupulous Werper (Al Ferguson), Tarzan (Frank Merrill) is awarded another blow to his...
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1929
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The third western released by poverty row company Syndicate Film Exchange, this film starred the strapping Tom Tyler in the...
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1929
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Ted Wells was nearing the end of his days as a Universal cowboy star when he made Grit Wins, in which he prevents the...
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Logan
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1929
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The surly but magnificent Rex the Wonder Horse was top-billed in Universal's Hoofbeats of Vengeance. As had been the case in...
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Jud Regan
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1929
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Bob Steele's talkie debut was the usual story of cattlemen versus sheepmen. Steele, the son of a cattle rancher, naturally...
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1930
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King, the clever pooch publicized as "Emperor of All Dogs" (played by Muro), starred in this very low-budget serial produced...
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1931
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Red Fork Range stars Wally Wales, who enjoyed a lengthy starring career in "B"-westerns before entering the character-actor...
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Black Bard
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1931
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In his first Western for Columbia, Tim McCoy played one of his favorite characters, the reformed professional gambler....
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Coldeye Carnell
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1931
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A Texas Ranger (Rex Lease) searches for the killer of his sister in this cheap and often incomprehensible Western produced by...
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1932
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Released by Syndicate, a forerunner of sorts to Monogram Pictures, this Western serial stars veteran silent actor Robert...
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Jean Gregg
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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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Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the...
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1933
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A potentially good idea -- mixing Western hi-jinks with horror film elements -- was wasted on this impoverished 20 minute...
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1934
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His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the...
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1934
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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From small-scale Reliable Pictures, The Laramie Kid starred the strapping Tom Tyler as a cowboy returning home to help his...
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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's easy-going charm truly began to manifest itself in this, one of his later "Lone Star" Westerns for Monogram....
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1935
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Between 1934 and 1936, Producer/director Bernard B. Ray ground out 19 westerns starring flinty-eyed Tom Tyler. 1936's Roamin'...
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1936
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1936
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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1936
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Superior locations, above-average direction, better than usual lighting and competent acting were the ingredients that made...
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1937
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Supporting actor Scott Kolk was elevated to playing the title role in this Graustarkian spy thriller, serialized in 12...
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1937
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1937
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After several overlong "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Rustler's Valley brings things back under control with a short-and-sweet...
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1937
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This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers,...
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1938
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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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1938
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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The thoroughbreds invoked by the title are a stray colt and the teenaged boy (Jimmy Lydon) who raises the animal. Despite the...
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1939
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Following up his movie portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Elliot stars as famed trailblazer John "Frontier" Freeman in...
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1939
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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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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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Like the first entry in the "Range Busters" series, the 1941-42 season opener Saddle Mountain Roundup was as much a whodunit...
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1941
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Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title...
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1941
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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1942
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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1942
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The Range Busters-John "Dusty" King, David Sharpe, Max "Alibi" Terhune-do their bit for the war effort in Texas to Bataan....
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1942
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1942
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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1943
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Filmed at Corriganville, actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan's movie ranch in Simi Valley, Sonora Stagecoach was the last of...
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1944
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1944
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In the penultimate "Trail Blazers" B-Western, the often difficult Ken Maynard found himself summarily replaced by Chief...
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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1944
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The fifth of Monogram's eight "Trail Blazers" Western, Westward Bound was set during the time of Montana gaining statehood....
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1944
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Buster Crabbe is back as Billy Carson, aka Billy the Kid, in the PRC western The Devil Riders. In this one, Billy and his...
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1944
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Rustler's Hideout is more of the same from PRC's resident cowboy stars Buster Crabbe and Al St. John. Cast once again as...
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1944
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Having worked as a duo in the first three entries of Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" series, veteran Western stars Ken...
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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1944
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In this western, the good-guys keep the bad-guys from taking over the water-rights of a group of trail drivers in the Santa...
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1944
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In their third and final "Trail Blazers" Western together, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele witness what appears to be...
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1944
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In this musical, a chorus of convicts conspires to get a paroled crooner chucked back in the clink. Songs include: "Time...
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1945
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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The most thrilling aspect of the PRC oater Lightning Raiders is the film's title. Though Buster Crabbe earns top billing as...
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1945
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Law of the Saddle stars Bob Livingston as Rocky Cameron, aka "The Lone Rider". With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John...
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1945
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1945
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In this musical, a young woman from a small town heads for New York where she hopes to become a famous singer. She has no...
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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1945
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Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually...
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1945
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Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic western series starring...
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1945
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe was billed "King of the Wild West" in this the final entry in PRC's ultra low-budget "Billy Carson"...
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1946
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Filmed in less than glorious two-strip Cinecolor, this average Eddie Dean western benefited from Dean performing "Ride on the...
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1946
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In this western comedy, the mis-adventures of a bumbling range rider are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1946
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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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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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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1947
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Having drunk his way out of most of the major studios and not a few of the minor ones, cowboy star Ken Maynard had trouble...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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1947
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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1948
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The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young...
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1948
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1949
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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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1949
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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1950
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In 1949, Paramount put together a film version of the radio series My Friend Irma. It was assumed that the main attraction...
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1950
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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1952
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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1953
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and...
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1953
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1953
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1954
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The second-to-last American serial ever made, this film series very uneasily combined two popular genres: The Northwest...
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1956
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