This 60-minute pastiche of silent film footage is narrated by humorist Henry Morgan. While the producers clearly worship...
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1968
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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In this western, two Federal Marshals attempt to round up ruthless counterfeiters by having hero Lash LaRue dress up as the...
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1952
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In this western, Lash LaRue and his trusty bullwhip are assigned to keep outlaws from getting to the new territorial...
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1951
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After becoming a promising star, cowboy star Lash LaRue's new series for producer Ron Ormond quickly fell into a groove of...
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1951
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In this Lash LaRue western, Our Hero aligns himself with the Pinkerton Detective Agency ("We Never Sleep") to capture a...
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1951
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The title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since...
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1950
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The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal...
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1950
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If it weren't for the movies, how would the public have known that Billy the Kid, who died at the age of 21, had a son?...
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1949
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Lash LaRue stars as U.S. deputy, with Al "Fuzzy" St. John as his comic-relief deputy. Lash and Fuzzy are on the trail of El...
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1949
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Lash LaRue essays a dual role in the 1949 western Outlaw Country. LaRue plays himself (or at least his screen self) and an...
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1949
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Dead Man's Gold, starring the black clad, whip wielding Lash LaRue and his sidekick, Fuzzy (Al St. John), is the kind of...
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1948
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Produced on the cheap by Ron Ormond and his wife, June Carr, this Western was one of ten to star Lash LaRue and Al St. John,...
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1948
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Although technically crude, Stage to Mesa City, an entry in PRC's "The Cheyenne Kid" series, was a great favorite with the...
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1948
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"King of the Bullwhip" Lash LaRue continues lashing away in the PRC western Ghost Town Renegades. In this one, the Cheyenne...
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Fuzzy Jones
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1947
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Whip-wielding westerner Lash LaRue closes out his 1947 schedule with Cheyenne Takes Over. Once again teamed with comical...
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1947
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Despite the producer claiming Border Feud to be a "New PRC Picture," this Western is essentially the same old wheeze that the...
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Fuzzy Jones
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1947
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The most unlikely cowboy hero of them all, whip-wielding, black-garbed "Lash" La Rue made his starring debut in this...
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1947
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This western follows Billy the Kid on another shoot-em-up adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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Return of the Lash exists primarily to display the bullwhip-wielding prowess of cowboy star Al "Lash" LaRue. The plot is set...
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1947
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1947
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Prairie Badmen is a typically threadbare entry in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series. This time around, Billy Carson...
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1946
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Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up in this "Billy Carson" Western series entry starring Larry "Buster" Crabbe...
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1946
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Officially released one month before PRC's "Billy the Kid" entry Prairie Badmen, Ghost of Hidden Valley, another...
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1946
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An unwanted orphan decides to run away with his dog, but later becomes the goal of an urgent quest when his relatives...
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1946
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In this western, Billy Carson must help out his bumbling side kick after he involves himself in a land scam. ~ Sandra...
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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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Sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) finds himself in deep trouble with the law in this above-average entry in PRC's Billy...
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1946
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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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Fighting Bill Carson, as any B-western aficionado can readily tell you, is played by Buster Crabbe. And where there's Bill...
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1945
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John -- "Our Old Pals," as they were billed -- get in trouble with a murderous Charles King...
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1945
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The "urban" nature of the title notwithstanding, Gangster's Den is another PRC Studios B-western. Buster Crabbe and...
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1945
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An otherwise typically cheesy Billy "the Kid" Carson B-Western series entry from Poverty Row studio PRC, His Brother's Ghost...
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1945
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At long last, a low-budget Western that fully lives up to its title, Stagecoach Outlaws depicts exactly that, a gang of...
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1945
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It's Buster Crabbe times two in this low-budget "Billy Carson" Western from PRC, which once again trots out that anatomical...
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1945
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Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) discovers that he may be an heir to a ranch in this ho-hum entry in PRC's Billy Carson Western...
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1945
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe, as Billy Carson, and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) decide to turn in their spurs and instead...
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1944
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This PRC "Billy the Kid" western once more teams Buster Crabbe, as Billy Carson, with Al St.John, as perennial sidekick Fuzzy...
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1944
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Thrill to the adventures of Billy the Kid. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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Being in the presence of a gun-slinger is intimidating enough, but when a "thundering" gun-slinger comes riding over the...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (or "Our Old Pals", as they were invariably billed) star in the PRC western Blazing Frontier....
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1944
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In this western, a courageous cowboy stops the land-grabbing conspiracy of a corrupt banker. The banker was planning to wait...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe essays a dual role in the PRC horse opera The Drifter. Crabbe is seen in his usual guise as dogooder Billy...
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1944
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A sleepy hay-seed filled Arkansas town gets spotlight fever when a local sow bears an unprecedented 10 piglets. Suddenly...
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1944
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One thing is certain in Frontier Outlaws. Despite evidence to the contrary, Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones...
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1944
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In this western, Billy the Kid must convince Fuzzy not to leave the trail. Fuzzy tries anyway and buys a small-town...
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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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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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In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid...
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1943
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That favorite old B-Western menace Charles King is at it again in Raiders of Red Gap, the last of PRC's "Lone Rider" Westerns...
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1943
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Wild Horse Rustlers was PRC's 1943 entry in the "Nazis on the prairie" western cycle. Hero Tom Cameron (Bob Livingston)...
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1943
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My Son, the Hero was a rare comedy from the PRC studio mills-and rarer still, it was directed by melodrama specialist...
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1943
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Billy the Kid, in the person of former swimming champion Larry "Buster" Crabbe, is once again falsely accused of a crime in...
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1943
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Cattle Stampede was the 200th production of that legendary B-picture mill, PRC Studios. Buster Crabbe plays Billy the Kid...
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1943
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Wolves of the Range was another entry in PRC's "Lone Rider" ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi...
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1943
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1943
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In this "Billy the Kid" series western, Billy (Buster Crabbe) is framed by an outlaw gang. Fortunately, state governor Arnold...
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1943
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This painfully cheap but wildly entertaining PRC production stars a hammy George Zucco in a dual role as the Clayton Twins --...
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1943
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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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Blonde, tough-looking Claire Rochelle played the main villain(ess) in this low-budget Western, an entry in PRC's "The Lone...
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1942
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Don "Red" Barry stars in the lightning-paced Republic western Sundown Fury. Befitting his unofficial title "the cowboy...
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1942
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe's "Billy the Kid" is once again unfairly accused of a crime and on the run with friends Fuzzy Q. Jones...
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1942
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Juilliard-educated former opera-singer George Houston once again played vigilante turned champion of justice Tom Cameron,...
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1942
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Jack Greenhalgh's murky photography did not enhance this low-budget "Billy the Kid" series entry, in which a falsely accused...
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1942
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Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and...
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1942
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Also known as Billy the Kid in Law and Order, this PRC sagebrusher stars Buster Crabbe as Billy "The Kid" Carson and...
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1942
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In this, one of the last episodes of the Lone Rider series, the hero must prove himself innocent after his charged with the...
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1942
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In this western, two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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In this western, "the Lone Rider," and his pardner catch the masked gunman that robbed a stage. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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In this episode of the "Billy the Kid" series of westerns, outlaw Billy (Buster Crabbe) is mistakenly appointed Sage Valley's...
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1942
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Fuzzy
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1942
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1942
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Crooked mail clerk Charles Haney (Emmet Lynn), coveting his boss' stagecoach line, tips off a gang of outlaws whenever a new...
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1942
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In this western, Billy the Kid confronts an evil con artist who has been trying to gull two children out of their inherited...
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1942
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Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small...
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1942
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Handsome second-lead Dennis Moore took center stage in this entry in PRC's low-budget "Lone Rider" Western series. Moore, who...
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1942
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When the order of the Western frontier is threatened by bandits, cowboys are the only measure of justice in the area. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning...
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1942
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Before his promotion to "A" pictures, Don "Red" Barry was perhaps the feistiest of Republic's cowboy-star stable. In Arizona...
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1942
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1941
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Small-but-wiry Bob Steele plays the title role in the PRC western Billy the Kid's Range War. Once again rewriting history,...
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1941
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Opera singer-turned-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's Lone Rider in Ghost Town. Houston is cast as Tom Cameron, who...
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1941
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Buster Crabbe is Billy Carson and Al St. John is Fuzzy Q. Jones in this formula PRC western. Riding into a wide-open town,...
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1941
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Buster Crabbe makes his first appearance as frontier do-gooder Billy Carson in PRC's Billy the Kid Wanted. The film also...
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1941
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1941
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Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises...
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1941
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In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron (George Houston) and his pal Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John are deputy...
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1941
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Tom Cameron (George Houston) is falsely accused of murdering a rancher in this "Lone Rider" Western series entry from poverty...
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1941
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The Western debut of former opera bass George Houston, The Lone Rider Rides On also inaugurated a new series from struggling...
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1941
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PRC's "Billy the Kid" series had two different stars over a six-year period. Bob Steele plays the title role in 1941's Billy...
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1941
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In their second Western outing together, PRC's low-budget team of George Houston and Al St. John go in search of a Mexican...
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1941
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Guess what happens in the PRC western The Lone Rider Ambushed? Yes, he does get ambushed, but that's not all. Posing as his...
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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Sherman Scott is credited as director of Billy the Kid's Gun Justice, but you can't fool us: Scott is none other than the...
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1940
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Don "Red" Barry, the "Wyoming Outlaw" and "Tulsa Kid" in other Republic westerns, does not play any one of the title...
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1940
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The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and...
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1940
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In the sixth of eight Renfrew of the Royal Mounted "Northwesterns," mounties Renfrew (James Newill) and Kelly (Dave O'Brien)...
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1940
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The second entry PRC's "Billy the Kid" series was 1940's Billy the Kid in Texas. The titular Kid is played by Bob Steele, who...
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1940
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PRC's Marked Men gets under way when hero Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit....
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1940
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1940
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Monogram's low-budget Jack Randall Western series went through a change of supervisor/writer with this entry -- Lindsley...
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1939
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Singer-songwriter Art Jarrett was given a tryout as a singing cowboy in Grand National's Trigger Pals. His cohorts included...
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1939
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At the end of his long association with Hal Roach, comedian Stan Laurel produced three singing Westerns featuring operatic...
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1939
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The second of the Stan Laurel-financed Fred Scott-singing Westerns, Songs and Bullets features the riding baritone as Melody...
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1938
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Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story,...
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1938
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The seventh of thirteen singing Westerns to star former opera baritone Fred Scott, The Ranger's Roundup was also the first of...
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1938
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In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a...
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1938
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Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach...
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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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Frontier Scout was one of a handful of western vehicles for opera star George Houston, who adapted surprisingly well to his...
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1938
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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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Singing cowboy Tex Ritter once again battled the ornery Charles King in this average music Western from poverty row company...
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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In this western, bad-guys threaten the local ranchers until a daring drifter comes to town. In the end he earns himself a...
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1937
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In between warbling Old Home Ranch and Yellow Mellow Moon (both by June Hershey and Don Swander), barytone cowboy Fred Scott...
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1937
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The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully...
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1937
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The Fred Scott musical westerns were high in audience appeal, but invariably handicapped with syrupy titles like Moonlight on...
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1937
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Singing cowboy Fred Scott stars as wandering troubadour Cal Brent, who travels the length and breadth of the West with his...
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1937
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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1936
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A homicidal hunchback known as The Fiend is stalking a theater company in this ultra low-budget whodunit ostensibly based on...
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1936
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The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William Boyd as the...
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1936
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The second of six generally well-made Rex Bell Westerns produced on the cheap by Gower Gulch company Colony Pictures, West of...
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1936
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Bottom-of-the-barrel Western filmmaking on all fronts -- save perhaps hero Tom Tyler's usual competent performance and a...
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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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Based on William Colt MacDonald's Law of the Forty-Fives, this ultra low-budget Beacon Western stars...
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Stony Martin
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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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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A very young John Wayne is atypically cast as a randy playboy in His Private Secretary. Much to the dismay of his businessman...
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1933
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In the first of his 16 Westerns for Monogram, John Wayne plays Singin' Sandy Saunders, a drifter who witnesses what he at...
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Bert
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1933
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In his third of six low-budget Westerns for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide, diminutive cowboy ace Bob Steele was...
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1932
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In this western, a man is accused of murder even though there is no body to prove that a killing has occurred. They look and...
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1932
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Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram...
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1932
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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In its last production days, Tiffany studios was home for many a "B" western series. One such starred Bob Steele, usually...
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1931
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1931
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In this western, an orphan who is discovered alone in the desert is raised by a kindly family. The only dark spot in their...
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1931
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The fourth of eight westerns made by diminutive Bob Steele for poverty row's Tiffany Productions, The Land of Missing Men is...
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1930
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Disguising himself as a bandit, diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele infiltrates the gang who abducted his father, the sheriff....
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1930
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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1930
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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1929
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Rival telephone companies race to complete a line between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Rawhide in this lively Tom Mix Western...
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1928
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1928
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Based on the popular railroad ballad, Casey Jones stars Ralph Lewis in the title role. Actually, the ballad itself is dealt...
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1927
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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1927
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1926
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1925
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1924
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This drama was based on the play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg...
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1924
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This two reeler is basically an excuse for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle to make a mockery of various vaudeville turns and back...
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1919
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1918
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Long believed lost, the Fatty Arbuckle two-reeler Good Night, Nurse resurfaced in fragmentary form in the late 1970s. Seeking...
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1918
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1918
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Filmed in late December of 1917 and early January of 1918, the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle two-reeler The Bellboy was shipped to...
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1918
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Having shot his fist five Comique Film Corporation comedies in New York, star-director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle moved his unit...
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1918
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1917
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This two-reeler by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle involves a man (Arbuckle) who escapes from his battle-axe wife Agnes Neilson by...
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1917
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Oh, Doctor! was the fifth of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's two-reelers for his own Comique Film Corporation (the unlettered...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1916
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1914
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In his 19th film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin plays a somewhat more sympathetic role as the husband of comedienne...
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1914
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Tango Tangles is an impromptu Keystone comedy which exploited the current "tango craze." A tango contest and exhibition...
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1914
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's 27th comedy for Keystone, and arguably his best, he plays not a homeless Tramp, but an inept janitor in...
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Elevator Boy
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1914
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1914
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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1914
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