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1951
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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1951
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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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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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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1947
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1947
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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The Durango Kid rides again in Columbia's Landrush. As ever, the masked do-gooder, alias Steve Harmon, is played by...
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1946
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1946
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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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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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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In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting. ~ Sandra...
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1945
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In this western, the Texas Rangers ride out after "The Whispering Skull" an enigmatic killer who murders his victims in the...
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1944
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In this western, the Texas Rangers take on a shyster who is trying to bilk a family of their money after he learns that an...
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1944
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Western star Don "Red" Barry essays a dual role in Republic's Outlaws of Santa Fe. Actually, the two "characters" are one:...
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1944
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No, the "Pinto Bandit" doesn't go around stealing beans. This is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" series, starring...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had...
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1944
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Some clever directorial touches by veteran Elmer Clifton help lift Days of Old Cheyenne from the B-western norm. Don "Red"...
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1943
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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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1943
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Starring the engaging Donald Barry (nicknamed, for obvious reasons, "Red"), this average Republic Western was filmed...
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1943
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Don "Red" Barry plays Lt. "California Joe" Weldon in this Civil War-era western. Joe is a Union undercover agent, whose job...
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1943
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Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his...
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1943
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Black Hills Express gets off to a powerful start, as hero Lon Walker (Don "Red" Barry) and his sidekick Deadeye...
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1943
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A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman,...
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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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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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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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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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1942
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Part of the "Range Buster" series of westerns, this film follows the adventures of a couple of former criminals...
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1941
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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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1941
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Produced and directed by George Sherman, Death Valley Outlaws starred James Cagney-lookalike Donald Barry as Johnny Edwards,...
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1941
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RKO Radio's Thundering Hoofs was the first of several Tim Holt westerns directed by "Hopalong Cassidy" veteran Lesley...
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1941
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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1941
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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1941
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Twilight on the Trail was one of three "Hopalong Cassidy" entries tradeshown in New York during the last two weeks of...
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1941
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In this western, a town finds itself under the tyrannical control of a shady sheriff. He is usurped by an honest outside...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a...
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1941
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A lesser entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series, Stagecoach War features veteran character actor...
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1940
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In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that...
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1940
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Fred Harmon's popular comic strip and radio hero Red Ryder came to the screen in this above-average Republic serial directed...
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1940
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Hidden Gold was the 29th installment in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. It perhaps goes without saying that "Hoppy"...
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1940
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) once again embarks on a mild romance with a mature woman in this average Western filmed at...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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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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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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West of Rainbow's End was one of two Tim McCoy westerns directed by Monogram Pictures workhorse Alan James. Returning to the...
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1938
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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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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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1938
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Law of the Texan is another of the above-average Buck Jones westerns produced by Coronet Films for Columbia release. Jones...
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1938
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1938
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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1938
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Veteran western star Buck Jones both co-produced (with Lesley Selander) and directed this well-mounted Universal B-Western...
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1937
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Yuba Bill
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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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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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Actually it's the great-grandson of legendary 19th century do-gooder Zorro who rides in this 12-chapter Republic serial....
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1937
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Smoke Tree Range represented another winning collaboration between cowboy hero Buck Jones and his favorite director...
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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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Quayle
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1937
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Ranger Courage was part of Columbia's short-lived western series starring utility actor Bob Allen. Allen plays the ranger of...
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1937
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A courageous Texas Ranger leaves his job to mediate a violent, long-standing dispute between his family and that of his...
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1937
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Trigger
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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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It has been said that Ray Mala was the only Jewish Eskimo actor in Hollywood. Whatever his religious or racial origins, Mala...
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1937
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Based on Tracks, a 1928 short story by Stephen Payne, this low-budget Western from Diversion Pictures told the ancient story...
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Clam Givens
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1936
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The first of thirteen singing-Westerns starring former San Francisco Opera barytone Fred Scott, Romance Rides the Range was...
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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1936
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The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his...
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Capt. Hays
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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Most of Ken Maynard's westerns were highly distinctive, if not always good. Heroes of the Range is okay but virtually...
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Slick
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1936
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Former pony express riders John Blair (John Wayne) and Larry Adams (Lane Chandler) don't buy the Brooklyn Bridge in this...
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1936
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Ghost Town Gold was the second entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. Ray "Crash" Corrigan and...
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1936
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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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Buck Jones' fourth Universal western, The Crimson Trail turned out to be one of his best-ever vehicles. The plot has...
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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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Throughout his "B"-western series for Ajax Pictures, Harry Carey was consistently better than his material. In Wild Mustang,...
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Utah Evans
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1935
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Neither the best nor worst of Hoot Gibson's westerns for producer Walter Futter, Feud of the West lies somewhere in between....
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Hawk Decker
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1935
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In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of...
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Billy Hume
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1935
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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1934
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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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Biff
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1934
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The second entry in Buck Jones' Universal western series, When a Man Sees Red casts Jones as the foreman of a ranch owned by...
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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Lon Chaney Jr.-- still billed under his given name of Creighton Chaney -- was afforded one of his earliest leading roles in...
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1934
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At the time of its release, Fighting Code was praised as being markedly different from the general run of Buck Jones...
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1934
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When asked in 1970 to recall his participation in RKO Radio's Spitfire, Ralph Bellamy prefaced his comments with a terse "Why...
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1934
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Again forsaking his traditional western garb, Tim McCoy plays a rough-and-ready fireman in Columbia's A Man's Game. During...
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1934
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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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Rivalry between two towns for the honor of becoming county seat turns violent in this interesting Ken Maynard Western from...
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One Shot Mallory
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1933
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An ex-con infiltrates a small town to rob their bank but ends up having a change of heart when it's up to him to protect the...
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1933
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Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for...
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1933
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In this western, the locals are being plagued by "Black Death" an evil outlaw who shoots victims with chemical bullets that...
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Bargoff
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1933
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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In this musical western, everybody sings, even the outlaws. The story follows a government agent who goes undercover as a...
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are policemen on night duty. As they sit in their car having a snack, they get a call from...
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1933
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Tall-in-the-saddle Rex Bell stars in this Monogram western. Bell, a Navy boxing champ, returns to his family's ranch, only to...
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1933
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In this western, a hero is arrested and tossed in the pokey. He and a renowned mail thief escape together. It is soon...
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1933
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Filmed at Kernville, CA, and the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, this serial version of James Fenimore Cooper's immortal tale...
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1932
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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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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Spike Collins
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1932
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Not the best of Tim McCoy's 16 Westerns for Columbia (1931-1932), Cornered, directed by action specialist B. Reeves Eason,...
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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1932
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Having basically bankrolled the struggling Warner Bros., the era's most popular canine, Rin Tin Tin, signed a...
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1932
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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1932
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The second of six sound Westerns starring Jack Hoxie and produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film, like most...
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1932
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On his way to claim an inheritance, Tom, aka Cuthbert Chauncey Dale (Buck Jones), and his pal "Swede" (John Oscar) witness a...
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1931
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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1931
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Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed that, while there were ten...
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1931
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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1931
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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1931
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The Conquering Horde is a remake of the 1924 western epic North of 36, using generous amounts of stock footage from the...
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1931
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This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused...
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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1931
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Popular child actor (and later radio and TV stalwart) Leon Janney made his one and only "Our Gang" appearance in "Bear...
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1930
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1930
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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1928
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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1927
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Buck Jones stars as Buck Laramie, an itinerant cowpoke who wanders into a wide-open frontier town. Heroine Ellen Wade...
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1927
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Everyone who ever worked with Rex, King of Wild Horses has testified that the magnificent-looking animal was one of the...
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1926
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This tale of the high seas -- based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams -- is as much character study as it is adventure. It...
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1923
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A drifter known only as "The Stranger (Francis Ford) promises a supposedly dying man, Ned Hadley (Harry Smith), to assume his...
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Sly Stevens
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1922
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On the whole, John Gilbert's starring vehicles at Fox were not as beneficial to him professionally as his films at MGM....
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1922
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Just about every cliché associated with the Northwest Mounted Police was crammed into this highly mediocre drama. Its one...
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1922
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College student Joe Sullivan (Joe Moore) and his sweetheart Eileen Morgan (Eileen Sedgwick) are separated when she returns to...
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Max Schultz
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1922
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Maverick Hollywood producer Phil Goldstone and director Alvin J. Neitz fashioned this minor silent Western starring...
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Buck Brady
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1922
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The stern William S. Hart was wearing out his welcome by the early 1920s, at least according to the review of his films. Hart...
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1922
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The crusty Russell Simpson and villainous James Mason portray a particularly evil father and son team in this intense sea...
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1921
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William S. Hart plays (what else?) a "good badman" in his first production for Paramount release, The Narrow Trail. While...
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1917
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This early epic is set in 16th-century Mexico amidst a carefully researched and painstakingly detailed recreation of an East...
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1916
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The quintessential William S. Hart western, Hell's Hinges stars two-gun Bill as gunslinger Blaze Tracy, "a man wholly evil."...
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1916
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Lieutenant Danny Ward (William Desmond) has just graduated from West Point and is sent down to the U.S.-Mexican border. He...
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1916
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