Though heavily advertised as Delmar Daves' Drum Beat, this film owed its existence to producer-star Alan Ladd. The star is...
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Consultant/advisor
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1954
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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Consultant/advisor
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown closed out his 1951 manifest of "B"-westerns with Montana Desperado. The story concerns a fierce struggle...
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1951
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County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat...
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1950
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Juvenile actor Dickie Moore starred in the title role of this 15 chapter serial as a teen-aged Buffalo Bill Cody, who with an...
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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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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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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1949
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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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Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde)...
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1947
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Character actor Douglas Fowley earns a rare starring role in this oddball western comedy produced and directed by...
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1947
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The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first...
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1946
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A great old Western filled with Tex Ritter's songs, this one revolves around a manhunt by the Texas Rangers who are trying to...
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1945
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Unlike previous "Trail Blazers" entries, each of which starred three veteran western heroes, Marked Trails top-bills only two...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in...
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1944
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Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada...
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1944
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In this western, Wild Bill and his assistant, try to learn why a young med school graduate is being spurned by the members...
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1943
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1943
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A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of...
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1943
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The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost...
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1942
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In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of...
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1942
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Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to...
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1941
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1941
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1940
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Long before the character was appropriated by Buster Crabbe, "Lightning" Bill Carson was played by Tim McCoy in a series of...
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Magpie
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1940
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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1939
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Tall-in-the-saddle Tim McCoy essays a dual role in the low-budget western Outlaw's Paradise. As luck would have it,...
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Magpie
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1939
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In this complicated western, a group of explorers head to Mexico to hunt for an Indian burial ground. The hero, who has been...
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Magpie
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1939
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Tim McCoy is back as hard-ridin' Lighting Bill Carson in Victory Pictures' Trigger Fingers. When rustlers invade a peaceful...
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Magpie
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1939
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In this actioner, a hardened cowboy decides to stop studying law and become a Texas state trooper instead. At the governor's...
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1939
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Ticket buyers got two Tim McCoys for the price of one with this low-budget Western, one of McCoy's eight Lightning Bill...
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1939
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In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important...
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1939
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In this exciting western, a mysterious masked hero helps tired settlers protect their lands from the wicked land-grabbers....
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Magpie
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1939
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Tim McCoy once again played Department of Justice agent "Lightning Bill" Carson in Code of the Cactus, and once again he...
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Magpie
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1939
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Controversy over ancient Spanish land grants takes center stage in this exciting George O'Brien Western from RKO. Presented...
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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1939
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The second of six low-budget Ken Maynard Westerns produced by Max and Arthur Alexander, Six Shootin' Sheriff featured a...
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1938
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When a man is blamed for murder and thievery, his lawman uncle chases after him. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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In this musical western, ranch owner "Lucky" Langham (Robert Homans) dies unexpectedly, and in his will he leaves his spread...
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1938
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In this western, a government agent poses as an Asian so he can investigate a gang of jewel smugglers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1938
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Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage...
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1938
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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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The dangers experienced by a Pony Express rider are chronicled in this western. The hero rides between Missouri and...
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1938
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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The "Hopalong Cassidy" series closed out 1937 with its 14th entry, Texas Trail. No surprises in the cast: William Boyd is...
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1937
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Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937...
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1937
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Another good entry in Warner Bros' Dick Foran western series, Blazing Sixes casts Foran as Red, an undercover federal agent....
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and directed (with action expert B. Reeves Eason) this somewhat inconsistent Western about a ranger...
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1937
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Produced by Greek-born Gower Gulch "tycoon" Anthony J. Xydias, this film was a remake, with plenty of stock footage, of...
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. custom of casting their Dick Foran singing Westerns with whomever was available from the studio's large...
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1937
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The very urban Paul Kelly is the unlikely hero of It Happened Out West. Sent to Arizona to persuade ranch owner Anne Martin...
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1937
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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1937
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A former assistant to W.S. Van Dyke, Leslie Selander took over directorial chores from the unimaginative Nate Watt with this...
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1937
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Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout...
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1936
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Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged...
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Red
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1936
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Gun Smoke was the second of a brace of "B"-westerns starring the now-forgotten Buck Coburn. The plot is as standard as...
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Shorty
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1936
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Dusting off a couple of old Ken Maynard Western plots -- already recycled once with John Wayne in the early 1930s -- Warner...
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1936
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Former footballer Reb Russell stars in this very low-budget oater as Muley Benson, a young cowpoke unfairly accused of cattle...
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1935
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The second of 18 Tom Tyler westerns produced by small-time company Reliable, this film starred the former silent screen...
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1935
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In the fourth of 18 inexpensive Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Reliable Pictures and filmed on location in Newhall,...
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1935
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Directed by the veteran Elmer Clifton, Pals of the Range was yet another attempt at turning journeyman actor Rex Lease into a...
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1935
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Having allowed his name to be listed as "producer" of Gun Smoke, a low-budget Western actually produced by Willis Kent, rodeo...
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1935
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Louis Weiss (of Poverty Row's Weiss Bros.) produced this commonplace B-Western starring one of the lesser names of the genre,...
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1935
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The first, last and only entry in the proposed Aywon Ranch series, Western Racketeers was directed by near-legendary bad...
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1935
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In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
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1935
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Listed as a 1942 release, Arizona Badman was actually lensed back in 1935, and reissued seven years later. Former football...
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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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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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1935
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In this western, a band of avaricious men kill a rancher in order to take over his land. The dead man's nephew was slated to...
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1934
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1934
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In his second starring Western for low-budget producer Willis Kent, former All-American fullback Reb Russell played just...
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1934
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1934
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In the final of seven "Bud'n Ben" Western short subjects, Jack Perrin was replaced by Denny Meadows as Bud while Ben Corbett...
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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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In this 3-reel comedy Western, Bud (Wally Wales) and his cowpoke sidekick Ben (Ben Corbett) decide to become outlaws. The...
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1934
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Written and directed by the prolific Oliver Drake, this low-budget Western starred Lane Chandler as a Texas Ranger battling a...
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1934
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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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To say that Smoking Guns is one of Ken Maynard's strangest Westerns is understating the case. The film wastes no time getting...
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1934
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In his penultimate Western, former silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie plays The Sonora Kid, an outlaw who, to spare an old blind...
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1933
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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Filmed at the Mack Sennett Studios, the future home of Republic Pictures, this obscure western starred rugged Lane Chandler...
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1933
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The first in a series of seven "Bud'n Ben" Western "featurettes," this 31 minutes oater introduced Ben Corbett and...
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1933
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A cowboy (Jack Hoxie) and his partners are known as "trouble busters," men who look for adventure and help out people in...
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1933
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The second in a series of six projected Lane Chandler westerns produced by H&H Productions, this film featured the rugged...
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1933
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Future producer Wallace MacDonald earned a starring role in this low-budget western based on an original story by veteran...
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1932
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Directed by the mediocre J.P. McGowan, Tim McCoy's second Western for Columbia was a rather tedious affair in which McCoy...
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1932
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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1932
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One of The Duke's earlier efforts, this John Wayne vehicle sees our hero using his wits against not only gold hunters, but...
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1932
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Tom Keene's first western entry of 1932, Partners casts the star as the partner of travelling medicine-show entrepreneur...
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1932
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1932
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A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ...
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1932
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Ken Maynard searches for a wayward youngster in this average Western from his days with low-budget KBS Productions. A rancher...
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1932
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Filmed on location at Lone Pine, CA, this above average Ken Maynard oater features the veteran cowboy star in the title role,...
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1932
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Ken Maynard's magnificent horse Tarzan took center-stage in this, perhaps the star's most flamboyant entry in the otherwise...
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1932
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Wild West Whoopee was produced and directed by the redoubtable Robert J. Horner, whose early-talkie westerns ranged from...
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1931
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The first of four low-budget Westerns that veteran cowboy star Harry Carey made for poverty row company Artclass Pictures,...
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy finds himself entangled in a saloon incident. He then saves a woman from outlaws, who later turn...
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1931
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In this western, an enraged cowboy seeks to avenge the murder of his father. He eventually confronts the guilty outlaw gang...
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1931
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Brawny western hero Jack Perrin certainly deserved better vehicles than such dreck as The Kid From Arizona. Perrin plays a...
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1931
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The second in a series of Buck Jones westerns produced by Sol Lesser for Columbia release, Shadow Ranch is the story of a...
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1930
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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1930
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Silent-screen hero Jack Perrin and his handsome mount Starlight headlined this low-budget oater from shoestring company Big 4...
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1930
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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1930
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An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western...
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1930
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Penny-pinching producer John R. Freuler's thoroughly misnamed Big Four Corp. released this early sound western about a ranch...
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Barney McCool
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1930
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From Big 4 Film Corp., Breed of the West stars former silent cowboy Wally Wales, in his second talkie, as Wally Weldon, a...
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1930
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1929
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A bookish Easterner (Hoot Gibson) is shipped off to a Western ranch for toughening up. Once on the ranch, he falls for a...
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1929
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Royal Rider is an amusing mixture of traditional western fare and Ruritanian melodrama. Ken Maynard plays Dick Scott, a rodeo...
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1929
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Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major...
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1929
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Yet another heroine faces yet another forced marriage in this typical Fred Humes oater, produced, cookie-cutter style, by...
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Benny
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1928
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Universal cowboy Fred Humes comes to the rescue of a beleaguered prospector in this average silent Western helmed by house...
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1928
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A ranch foreman (Fred Humes) is falsely accused of a robbery actually committed by his look-alike cousin (also Humes), a...
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1928
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Handsome newcomer Don Coleman starred in this independently produced silent Western about a Texas Ranger whose foster-father...
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1928
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1927
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1927
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Producing and directing his own films, Leo Maloney almost always used the talents of Ford I. Beebe to compose his scripts....
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dock Burion
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1927
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1926
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One of the few female western stars of the 1920s, Josie Sedgwick, played a girl searching for her outlaw father's killer in...
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1925
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One of Hollywood's few cowgirls, Josie Sedgwick, starred as the lady mayor of a small Western community in this silent oater...
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1925
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The feud between cattle ranchers and sheep men took center stage once again in this fairly effective Jack Hoxie western....
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1924
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Actor-director Paul Hurst also wrote this average low-budget Western starring Neal Hart. Hart attempts to save a mother (Sara...
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1922
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Jack Hampton (Neal Hart) is a U.S. rancher who escapes to the Canadian woods when he is falsely accused of murder. Mountie...
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1922
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Second-echelon cowboy star Neal Hart and lovely Yvette Mitchell fall prey to an outwardly respectable but deeply corrupt...
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1922
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Gower Gulch entrepreneur William Steiner released this very low-budget silent western featuring Neal Hart (a distant relative...
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1922
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