Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular...
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1959
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A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph...
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1957
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One of the least-known of the American-International "B" westerns of the 1950s, Flesh and the Spur offers the spectacle of...
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1957
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The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for...
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1956
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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1955
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook....
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1954
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1953
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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1953
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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Re-edited from the serial King of the Rocket Men, this adventure is an account of a scientist who dons a jet-pack in order...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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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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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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1950
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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1950
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The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other...
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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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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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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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1949
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To stop a madman from blowing up New York City, a researcher dons a flying suit and prepares for battle in this serial, later...
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1949
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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1948
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1947
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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1947
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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1947
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Republic Pictures attempted to mix the popular Zorro sub-genre with a modern crime story in this action serial directed by...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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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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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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The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic...
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1941
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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1938
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Chester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd...
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1937
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1937
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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1937
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A typical Gene Autry everything-but-the-kitchen-sink musical Western, The Old Corral featured the spectacle of Autry getting...
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1936
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In his second and last Western for low-budget company First Division, veteran cowboy star Hoot Gibson played Neil Gibson,...
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1935
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Boss Cowboy was released by Superior Pictures-a misleading corporate name if ever there was one. Buddy Roosevelt plays a...
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by...
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1935
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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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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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT....
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1933
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Poverty Row entrepreneur Victor Adamson (hiding behind the pseudonym of Denver Dixon) once again managed to release a...
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U. S. Marshal
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1933
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Victor Adamson's Superior Talking Pictures (which was laughably far from "superior") released this poor oater starring former...
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1933
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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1932
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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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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Frank
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1931
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1930
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Gower Gulch entrepreneur Trem Carr produced this inexpensive little oater starring one of the lesser silent screen cowboys,...
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James Murdock
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1929
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Director John Ford made his talking-picture debut with the 3-reel (32-minute) Fox "featurette" Napoleon's Barber. Faithfully...
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1928
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Remembered only for featuring one of Boris Karloff's many pre-Frankenstein supporting roles, The Phantom Buster was one of...
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1927
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Produced by Gower Gulch company Action Pictures, this minor silent Western starred Buddy Roosevelt as a ranch foreman who...
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Jim West
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1927
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Lester F. Scott, Jr.'s shoestring operation Action Pictures produced this minor silent Western in which a sagebrush Robin...
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Jim Jones/The Sun Dance Kid
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1927
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In this minor silent Western, a playful "kidnapping" goes horribly wrong when a gang of bank robbers enters the picture....
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1926
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Despite being a less than inspiring actor at his best, Buddy Roosevelt was asked to play identical twins -- one good, the...
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Bud Trigger,Kenneth Trigger
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1926
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1925
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Bud Keenan
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1925
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This minor silent Western from small-time Approved Pictures was Jean Arthur's fourth film and the second of 10 program...
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Buddy Walters
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1924
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Also-ran cowboy Buddy Roosevelt starred in this very minor silent western about a ranchhand whose pretty boss...
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1924
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