The word "dysfunctional" hardly begins to describe the condition of the murderous Coombs family. Conducting his own "survival...
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1962
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Mexican general Ortega (Gerald Price) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help him on a most unusual mission. In search of...
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1962
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En route to Denver, Bart (Jack Kelly) finds himself sharing a stagecoach with a curious assortment of passengers, including a...
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1961
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is intrigued when his morning mail yields one-half of a $500 bill and a stagecoach ticket to Yuma,...
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1961
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Young Billy Walker (Wesley Lau) is accused of murdering the wife of Marshal Dowd (Claude Akins). Walker's employers, the...
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1960
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Paladin (Richard Boone) gallantly agrees to protect baby-faced Jenny Lake (Ellen Clark) against a man named Wilson (Peter...
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1960
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Night of the Ghouls (which was also known as Revenge of the Dead) was Edward D. Wood Jr.'s first attempt at making a horror...
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1959
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Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with...
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1959
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This is the celebrated Maverick spoof of Jack Webb's Dragnet, complete with deadpan narration by protagonist Bret Maverick...
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1959
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In this Western, a rancher must perform a robbery lest the outlaw chief that holds his wounded brother hostage lets him die....
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1958
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On the verge of starting a business with Walter Osbourne (John Vivyan) in Mexico, Bart (Jack Kelly) discovers that all his...
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1958
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Originally titled Man of the West (the name of the Philip Yordan novel on which it was based), Gun Glory was rechristened to...
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1957
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Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The...
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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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The second-to-last American serial ever made, this film series very uneasily combined two popular genres: The Northwest...
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1956
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The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and...
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1956
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In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One...
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1956
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A long-awaited sequel to Columbia Pictures' popular The Phantom (1943), this film was produced by legendary Hollywood...
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Nat Coleman
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1955
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To most outside observers, Bride of the Monster probably seems like a ridiculously inept horror film, and in many ways it is...
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1955
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Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.'s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of...
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1954
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The redoubtable Johnny Carpenter is producer, author and star of the low-budget western Lawless Rider. Exploiting his slight...
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Tulso
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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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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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1953
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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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The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny...
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1952
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Not so much produced as stitched together, The Black Lash was ostensibly a sequel, with plenty of stock footage, to Frontier...
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1952
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As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man...
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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1952
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Rather than the usual cattlemen vs. sheep men conflict, this above-average Rex Allen western contrasts ranchers of all kinds...
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1952
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A stage line is once again threatened by a greedy rival in this ultra low-budget western from small-scale Monogram Pictures....
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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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Outlaw Chief
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1951
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Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of...
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1951
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Though ready for release in 1951, Whistling Hills ended up as western star Johnny Mack Brown's first entry for 1952. This...
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1951
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Gene Autry stars in the 1951 sagebrusher Whirlwind. In this outing, Autry plays a frontier postal inspector known for his...
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1951
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The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller (I. Stanford Jolley), a greedy express agent and...
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1951
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Gene Autry takes a page out of Lady for a Day in this television western initially released on September 17, 1950. Having...
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1950
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1950
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At first glance, Cow Town seems to be a documentary, as an unseen narrator describes the changes made in the Old West by the...
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1950
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West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these...
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the Monogram oater Outlaw Gold. The plot is motivated by revenge: sentenced to five years in...
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1950
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Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of...
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1950
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1950
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Produced at Agoura, CA, and directed by silent film action star Richard Talmadge, this minor Western starred bandleader and...
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1950
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Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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1950
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The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up...
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1950
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Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films...
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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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Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space...
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1950
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Don Barry stars as Texas Ranger Bob Standish, sworn to avenge his brother's death in Border Rangers. To achieve his goal,...
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1950
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Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of...
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1950
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A cooperative of independent oil men goes up against a greedy Eastern syndicate in this Republic Pictures serial directed by...
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1950
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Western star Charles Starrett does not disappoint his fans in Frontier Outpost. As usual, Starrett plays Steve Lawton, a...
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the rubber-stamp western Over the Border. Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his...
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1950
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1949
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Monogram's four-year-old Jimmy Wakely western series began to wind down with Courtin' Trouble. As was customary, Jimmy does...
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1949
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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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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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By the time Law of the West came out in 1949, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown westerns were beginning to all look alike. Here as...
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1949
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Ostensibly a Jimmy Wakely musical Western -- the singer's final starring vehicle -- The Lawless Code is really a showcase for...
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely stars in Monogram's Silver Trails. It all begins when Jimmy and his comical sidekick Dub...
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1949
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The Gay Amigo was the second "Cisco Kid" theatrical entry produced for United Artists release by Philip N. Krasne....
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1949
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was in his final year of movie stardom when Gun Runner was released by Monogram. Wakely has more...
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1949
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In one of his better later Westerns, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely comes to the aid of a reformed outlaw and his wayward son....
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1949
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Even his cinematic rival Lash LaRue allowed that Whip Wilson was one of the best whip wielders in the movies. Shadows of the...
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1949
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In his second-to-last Monogram Western, country & western singer Jimmy Wakely does hardly any singing at all as he and...
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1949
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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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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1948
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A Texas Ranger is once again falsely accused of murder in this above-average singing-cowboy oater from Monogram. This time,...
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1948
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Eddie Dean and sidekick Roscoe Ates come to the aid of a young rancher in this low-budget singing Western from PRC....
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1948
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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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1948
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In this tuneful western, a brave hero endeavors to save the town from the evil villains who are trying to poison its water...
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1948
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In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town....
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1948
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a...
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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1948
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Hired to catch a killer horse named Midnight, Jimmy Wakely and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) get themselves in trouble...
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1948
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"Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of...
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1948
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One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy...
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1948
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In this western a singing cowboy and his side-kick rescue a pretty gal who runs a stagecoach and finds herself in trouble. ~...
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1948
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Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry...
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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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Dissatisfied with his postwar Republic westerns (not to mention his comparatively low salary), Gene Autry switched his base...
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1947
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Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western. ~ 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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Having drunk his way out of most of the major studios and not a few of the minor ones, cowboy star Ken Maynard had trouble...
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1947
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In this western, two cowboys are framed as cattle rustlers and tossed in the pokey. Later, honest ranchers spring them and...
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1947
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Bowery Buckaroos would have the viewer believe that pint-sized sweetshop proprietor Louie Dumbrowski (Bernard Gorcey),...
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1947
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A B-Western hero since the late silent era, Bob Steele would hang up his spurs after a final four westerns for director Harry...
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1946
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Diminutive western hero Bob Steele stars in Six Gun Man. Steele plays federal marshal Bob Storm, who has been assigned to...
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1946
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Rainbow over Texas is set in a western never-never land, with vintage six-shooters and stagecoaches sharing screen time with...
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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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In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't...
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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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Filmed in less than glorious two-strip Cinecolor, this average Eddie Dean western benefited from Dean performing "Ride on the...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of...
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1946
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In this western, a tuneful saddletramp is appointed sheriff of Rawhide and begins rounding up three troublesome brothers. ~...
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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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The Caravan Trail stars PRC Pictures' resident singing cowboy Eddie Dean. This time around, wagonmaster Dean is appointed...
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1946
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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1946
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In most of his Columbia westerns, Charles Starrett simply was the Durango Kid, a mysterious masked do-gooder who pretends to...
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1946
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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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Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other...
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1945
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In this western, a dreamy young woman, tired of her boring life and job travels to an abandoned town where her grandmother...
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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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Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton once again play undercover U.S. marshals Nevada McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins. This time,...
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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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Though it wasn't the first of the batch, The Stranger from Pecos would have been an excellent starting point for Johnny Mack...
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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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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In this western, a wagonmaster stops a greedy newspaper editor from buying up an entire territory. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1945
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A gang which frees criminals and kills them to collect their reward is broken up by the Texas Rangers who plant one of their...
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1945
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That veteran reprobate Roy Barcroft plays yet another outlaw in The Cherokee Flash, a perfectly acceptable B-Western from...
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1945
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The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and...
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1945
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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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A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town...
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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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Filmed at Corriganville, actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan's movie ranch in Simi Valley, Sonora Stagecoach was the last of...
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1944
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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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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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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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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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Partners in most of the low-budget Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Ritter and Dave O'Brien are at loggerheads through the greater...
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1944
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With his performance in the offbeat sagebrusher The Laramie Trail, Bob Livingston makes his final appearance in a Republic...
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1944
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In this western, a group of avaricious businessman try to coerce settlers from their valuable land until a brave cowboy...
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1944
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The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usually featured three cowboy...
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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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1944
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Bill Elliot is back as Red Ryder in Cheyenne Wildcat. Also back are Ryder's perennial cohorts Little Beaver (Bobby Blake,...
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1944
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In this western, a crusty old sourdough finally finds the silver mine of his dreams only to find his mine threatened by...
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1944
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Starring Monogram's low-budget answer to Gene Autry, the rather colorless Jimmy Wakely, this minor music Western was actually...
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1944
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In the penultimate "Trail Blazers" B-Western, the often difficult Ken Maynard found himself summarily replaced by Chief...
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1944
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The Sundown Riders was the first in a brief series of "experimental" westerns, designed for the then-burgeoning...
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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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1944
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In their third and final "Trail Blazers" Western together, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele witness what appears to be...
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1944
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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This diverting cinematic time capsule pits the hard-ridin' Range Busters against a Nazi spy ring. The Busters are played on...
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1943
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Another low-budget entry in PRC's interminable Texas Ranger series, Border Buckaroos is perhaps the only B-Western to...
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1943
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Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that...
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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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In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers and the utility company....
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1943
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With Riders of the Rio Grande, Republic's 51-entry "Three Mesquiteers" western series came to an end. Starring as the...
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1943
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In the second of PRC's ramshackle Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) is blamed for a murder actually...
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1943
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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1943
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In the first entry in PRC's Texas Ranger series, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson) are...
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1943
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Though the film's title is The Texas Kid, the film's star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cowboy named Nevada. The titular "kid",...
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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The first of Tim Holt's 1943 quota of RKO westerns was Fighting Frontier. This time, Holt appears to be cast as a...
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1943
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The Triangle W Ranch is indeed haunted in this Monogram Range Busters series entry, though not by the spirit of the late...
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1943
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Carson City Cyclone stars Don "Red" Barry as a frontier lawyer with the deceptively mild-mannered monicker of Gilbert Phalen....
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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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U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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The Three Mesquiteers are back in the saddle in Republic's Code of the Outlaws. In this outing, the Mesquiteers are played by...
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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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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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The last of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" westerns starring oldtimers Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, West of the...
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1942
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The Range Busters do their heroic duty once again as they set out to capture those responsible for a bank robbery and murder...
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1942
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The East Side Kids, featuring Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, star in this spirited blend of action and comedy. The...
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1942
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Bob Steele stars as Dick Carlysle, who returns home to his family ranch after almost a year away in Texas to discover that...
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Bud Kettle
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1942
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1942
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Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again...
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1942
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Sons of the Pioneers is a showcase for?the Sons of the Pioneers, who are reteamed with ex-"Son" Roy Rogers in this budget...
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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1942
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The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are...
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1942
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The Range Busters are at it again in Monogram's Underground Rustlers. Set in California gold country during the financial...
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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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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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There's a surprising lack of phyisical action in Phantom Cowboy, requiring star Don "Red" Barry to carry the picture through...
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1941
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In one of his best early Westerns, Tim Holt avenges the accidental shooting of his father by robbing the Cedar Fork bank, who...
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1941
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That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia...
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henchman
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1941
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Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe....
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1941
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Although rather grandly dedicated to "the law officers of the Old West, who led the fight for law and order in the pioneer...
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1941
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In this western, the Three Mesquisteers face down angry Indians and outlaws while fighting to save the life of am abducted...
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1941
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An average Tim Holt oater from RKO, Riding the Wind is set in the New Mexico desert where the ranchers are at the mercy of...
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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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Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in...
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1941
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Tim Holt plays a rancher named Drummond who runs up against a gang of crooked frontier land agents. When Drummond complains...
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1941
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The Pals of the Pecos are our old pals The Three Mesquiteers, portrayed herein by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke),...
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1941
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The Three Mesquiteers are back in Republic's Gangs of Sonora. The story is set in Wyoming, just before statehood was bestowed...
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1941
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Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be...
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1941
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Hoof and mouth disease reared its ugly head in this unusual Tex Ritter singing Western from Monogram. Ritter played Tex...
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1940
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In his penultimate Western for low-budget company Metropolitan, Bob Steele's horse Pirate, "one of the finest Arabian...
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1940
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No sooner had the second of Monogram's "Range Riders" westerns hit the screens than the third entry, West of Pinto Basin, was...
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1940
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Veteran second-unit director and stunt coordinator Ralph Cedar warmed the director's chair for the 1940 Charles Starrett...
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1940
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Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal,...
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1940
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Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush...
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1940
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Jack Randall, a truly minor singing cowboy, stars in this low-budget oater from Metropolitan Pictures. Jack Rowan (Randall)...
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Sheriff
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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1940
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George O'Brien's first 1940 western release, Legion of the Lawless uses its frontier trappings for a plea against vigilante...
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1940
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The best thing about the Jack Randall Western Pioneer Days is its short-and-sweet running time, a brisk 50 minutes. Randall...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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The otherwise standard Ken Maynard western Death Rides the Range is distinguished somewhat by a topical slant. The plot...
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1940
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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1940
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East meets west in this musical western starring singing cowboy Gene Autry. After the death of its owner, the financially...
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1940
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Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures....
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1940
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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1939
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Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A"...
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1939
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The Three Mesqueteers attempt to prevent wholesale slaughter in this fine Republic Western starring John Wayne,...
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1939
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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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A typical Tex Ritter "Boots and Saddle" singing Western from low-budget company Monogram, Sundown on the Prairie featured...
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1939
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Roy Rogers got himself a new sidekick in the disheveled, toothless person of George "Gabby" Hayes in this fine Republic...
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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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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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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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1939
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Following up his movie portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Elliot stars as famed trailblazer John "Frontier" Freeman in...
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1939
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This "Three Mesquiteers" western is based upon the exploits of one James Addison Reavis, a clever 19th century con artist who...
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1939
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Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose...
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1939
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Having explored the old wheeze about the young man searching for his brother's killer and the one about the cowboy...
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1939
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1938
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Singing cowboy Jack Randall does his usual in Monogram's Danger Valley, Randall's second starring film. When someone...
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1938
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Filmed on location at Lake Los Angeles, CA, this minor Monogram Western starred Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan...
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1938
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Charles Starrett heads the cast; Sam Nelson directs; and the supporting players inlude Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Ed Cobb,...
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1938
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Rolling Caravans was one of four Columbia B-westerns designed to make a star out of utility actor Jack Luden. Harry Woods, a...
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1938
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1938
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Although Monogram claimed that Jack Randall received an average of over 1,000 fan letters a week, the studio was quietly...
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Jed
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1938
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Tex Ritter's final music Western for floundering company Grand National, The Utah Trail was yet another low-budget patch-up...
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1938
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Just before going on a brief one-man strike for better wages, Gene Autry starred in the Republic musical western Prairie...
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1938
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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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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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1938
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1938
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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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Former nightclub crooner Smith Ballew made his singing-cowboy debut in Western Gold. Set during the Civil War, the story...
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1937
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In response to Republic's Gene Autry westerns of the late 1930s, Warner Bros. created its own singing cowboy, Dick Foran, for...
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1937
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Each of Bob Allen's six westerns for Columbia had the words "Ranger" or "Range" in the title, and Law of the Ranger was no...
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1937
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1937
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Where Trails Divide was the second entry in Tom Keene's western series for Monogram. Not as good as the first...
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1937
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The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly...
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1937
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The third of four Fred Scott Westerns produced by C.C. Burr for Spectrum Pictures, Two Gun Troubadour was rather grim for...
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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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Steve
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1937
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A superior Gene Autry Western in every way, Boots and Saddles features child prodigy Ra Hould (aka Ronald Sinclair) as...
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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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1937
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Warner Bros.' resident singing cowboy, the amiable Dick Foran, warbles "The Prairie Is My Home" and "When the Cowboy Takes a...
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1937
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The most enjoyable of the Warner Bros.-Dick Foran singing Westerns, this film pitches lawyer Foran against unscrupulous land...
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1937
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Returning to his home spread in the Red River border area between Texas and Oklahoma, Tal Holladay (Dick Foran) is falsely...
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1937
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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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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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Haws McGee
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1936
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Ken Maynard at least tries to keep his characteristic off-the-wall ad-libs to a minimum in Fugitive Sheriff. Hoping to rid a...
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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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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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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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1936
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This western tells the story of a brave Army captain assigned to escort an important official's daughter through Indian...
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1936
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This Dick Foran "singing western" makes extensive use of stock footage from First National's Ken Maynard series of the silent...
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1936
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Based on the turn-of-the-century dimestore novels of Bert L. Standish (real name: William Patton Gilbert), this slow-moving...
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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 his second "Range Rider" music Western for poverty row newcomer Grand National, Tex Ritter played Tex Saunders, the...
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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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In his second Western for Poverty Row producer A.W. Hackel, former football star Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of both his...
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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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Filmed on location at Big Bear and Wrightwood, CA, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia moved the stalwart hero from the...
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1935
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Making his debut as Columbia Pictures' new cowboy hero -- replacing, incidentally, the aging Tim McCoy -- handsome Charles...
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1935
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More of a whodunit than a straight Western, this Guinn "Big Boy" Williams vehicle from low-budget Beacon Pictures at least...
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1935
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1935
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Based on "The King of Cactusville", a 1923 short story by Johnston McCulley, the creator of Zorro, The Outlaw Deputy was the...
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Cash
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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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In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when...
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1935
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A superior Tim McCoy Western, Justice of the Range featured a range feud between John Mclean (Edward J. LeSaint) and his...
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1935
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The redoubtable Victor Adamson (aka Denver Dixon) got together a few hundred bucks, assigned the screenplay chores to his...
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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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An apparently lost entry in the long-running Bob Steele Western series produced by A.W. Hackel, The Rider of the Law...
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1935
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1934
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Filmed at the Columbia ranch in ten days in September of 1934, this Tim McCoy Western did not enjoy a wide release until...
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1934
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Rocky Rhodes was Buck Jones' first western vehicle for Universal Pictures. Evidently inheriting a leftover script from...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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1934
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A young auto mechanic gets a job with Three Points Airlines, and helps to get them a government mail contract in this action...
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1934
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1934
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In this romantic western, a daring masked outlaw steals the gold from a crooked mining company and uses the loot to pay the...
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1933
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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1933
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Tom Mix makes like Hoot Gibson in the 1933 western Flaming Guns. Cast against type, Mix plays a cloddish sort who avoids...
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1933
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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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In this action film, a New York reporter follows a group of East Coast jewel thieves trying to move their operation to the...
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1933
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1933
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The 1932 Tom Mix western talkie Texas Bad Man has much in common with the sombre silent efforts by Mix's former rival...
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1932
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to...
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1932
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Filmed in the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs, CA, this Buck Jones series entry was publicized as the first talkie...
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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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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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An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman...
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1932
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In a last desperate effort to stay afloat in an industry suffering from the Great Depression, John R. Freuler's tattered Big...
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1932
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In this western, a cowboy and his sidekick save a woman and her ranch from greedy badguys. The trouble really begins when...
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1932
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In his fourth of six inexpensive Westerns for Allied Pictures in 1932, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson played a foreman...
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1932
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In his first Western for Columbia, Tim McCoy played one of his favorite characters, the reformed professional gambler....
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1931
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"Suggested" by the book The West That Was by legendary showman William F. Cody, this 12 chapter Universal serial was merely...
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1931
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Red Fork Range stars Wally Wales, who enjoyed a lengthy starring career in "B"-westerns before entering the character-actor...
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"Whip" Reden
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Boris Karloff's appearance as an outlaw gives this minor Tiffany western its only claim to fame. Rex Lease, a general utility...
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1930
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Western Honor was one of the last silent Bob Steele westerns for low-budget Syndicate Pictures. The story follows the...
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1930
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This western serial chronicles the adventures of a young girl whose uncle has discovered gold out West. Accompanied by her...
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1930
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Producer-director J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange, a forerunner of Monogram Productions, Inc., caught action heroes on...
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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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Produced for what looked like pennies at Cathedral Mountain and Big Bend, Texas, by low-budget entrepreneur J. Charles Davis,...
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1929
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Diminutive cowboy Bob Steele starred as a cowboy tracking down his father's killer in this modest silent Western produced by...
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Lefty Lawson
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1929
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One of the more used plots in silent westerns was the one about the son searching for the villain who killed his father. In...
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1929
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1929
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This cheap western produced by J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange was given an almost too prophetic title. One of the...
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The Villain
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1929
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1929
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In this western, a wagon train is massacred by Indians and the only survivors are two children, a brother and a sister. They...
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1929
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This little silent Western was one in a series of six "Montana Bill" oaters produced by poverty row regular William Pizor, a...
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1928
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1928
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The once-popular, now-forgotten western star Bob Custer heads the cast of Law of the Mounted. Custer dons the red coat of the...
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1928
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Universal's sloppy-looking cowboy star Hoot Gibson plays the carefree son of the tough prison warden (Frank Beal) in this...
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1928
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Minor cowboy star Bob Custer finds his newly purchased land overrun by outlaws and claim-grabbers in this minor silent...
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1928
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Having learned the tricks of the trade appearing in the action series The Hazards of Helen back in the mid-1910s,...
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Franchy
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1927
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Veteran B-western auteur Benjamin F. Wilson (the "F" stood for "Franklin," of course) produced, directed, and starred in this...
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1927
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Wooden silent screen cowboy Bob Custer played a Texas oil man rescuing a female rancher (Marjorie Zier) from a gang of land...
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1927
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Billed as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this airborne action melodrama featured real-life aviator Al Wilson playing identical...
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George Delatour
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1927
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As a foreword to this low-budget silent western intones, "Perhaps the most important step in the early stages of the...
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Aleck Harvey
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1927
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Filmed in 1927, the silent western King of the Herd wasn't shown in New York until 1929. Although the film's official star is...
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1927
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This exploitationer isn't quite as lurid as its title, but it's not from lack of trying. Heroine Carol Wines is in love with...
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1926
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1926
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Produced and directed by poverty row maven Benjamin F. Wilson (the "F" stood for Franklin!), this minor silent Western...
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"Snap" Ferguson
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1926
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This minor oater was the penultimate silent western starring the strapping Tom Tyler. Produced by poverty-row company...
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1926
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1926
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A millionaire's son once again toughens up on a western ranch in this low-budget silent western produced by veteran director...
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1925
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After crashing his plane in the wilderness, a young airborne forest ranger is nursed back to health by a mountain man and his...
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1925
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A minor Hatfield and McCoy melodrama set in the wild and woolly West, Across the Deadline features Leo Maloney as an unlikely...
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Ben Larrago
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1925
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Poverty row producer-director Leo Maloney and his usual screenwriter Ford Beebe fashioned a fanciful tale of a cowboy...
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Ed Wiley
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1925
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Lower-echelon cowboy star Leo Maloney produced and directed this inexpensive silent western, released through independent...
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1924
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This otherwise fairly average silent western contains a sequence as racist in its own seemingly innocuous way as anything...
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Frank Macy
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1924
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A well-made entry in Leo Maloney's Range Rider series, Smoke Out stars the veteran cowboy hero as a drifter who rescues a...
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Luke Stiles
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1924
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Minor (in status if not physique) western hero Leo Maloney produced, directed and starred in this slipshod silent western...
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Jess Ragland
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1924
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Real-life siblings Bob Burns and Fred Burns play brothers in this rare surviving two-reel Western, part of Pathé's Range...
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Tom Barnes
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1923
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In Double Cinched, an entry in the two-reel Range Rider series, cowpoke Leo Maloney turns himself into a countrified dandy...
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Prisoner 999
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1923
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1923
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This minor silent Western was one in a series of oaters produced independently by the founder of the pioneering Selig...
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Chip
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1921
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This romantic adventure was an experiment by Pathe, which offered it as both a nine-reel feature and as a 10-episode serial....
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1921
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Film pioneer Colonel William N. Selig had watched his once-powerful organization, the Selig Polyscope Company, dissolve in...
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1921
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The rugged Franklyn Farnum stars in this tale of Northwest bootleggers. Two revenuers, Fitzgerald (Farnum) and Herrick (Bud...
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1921
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1916
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1912
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