In this musical comedy, a would-be country singing star has to steal the money to pay his fare to Nashville where he hopes...
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1966
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Scuba-divers plot a bank robbery on lovely Catalina island in this caper movie. After the heist, the thieves dive into the...
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1964
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Scientist Alex March (John Agar) is working on developing what he hopes will be a new, non-lethal form of nerve gas -- but...
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1962
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In this mystery, a divorced man begins looking for his ex-wife who married his former business partner. Hal Weston's search...
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1962
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In this standard children's story -- with a few teen songs added -- the head of Burberry Elementary School, Harry Davis...
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1961
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John Fox Jr.'s popular 1906 novel has been filmed several times, and converted into a number of theatrical presentations. The...
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1961
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Director John A. Bushelman makes a departure from his usual western and action films to guide this respectable,...
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1961
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Although limited by a low-budget, this is a respectable wartime drama by director John A. Bushelman, set on the front lines...
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1961
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In this crime drama, an American gumshoe goes to Johannesburg, South Africa to prove the innocence of a native accused of...
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1958
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Despite the glut of TV westerns in 1958, 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary continued grinding out profitable...
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1958
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Hot on the heels of his successful sci-fier Kronos, Kurt Neumann directed the lesser genre entry She Devil. Jack Kelly stars...
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1957
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In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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Peggie Castle is the Two-Gun Lady in this no-frills western. Castle plays Kate Masters, whose prowess with a gun earns her...
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1956
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After divesting himself of his own studio and distribution firm, producer Robert L. Lippert Jr. put together a group of...
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1956
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Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The...
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1956
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Her days of cinematic glory behind her, Paulette Goddard was compelled to take whatever came along in the mid-1950s. Playing...
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1954
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Virile leading man Phil Carey heads the cast of the 3D western The Nebraskan. Carey plays U.S. Army scout Wade Harper,...
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1953
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Within its own modest limits, The Great Jesse James Raid is a well-crafted western. Willard Parker plays Jesse James, who...
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1953
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Lippert's Mask of the Dragon was filmed simultaneously with Fingerprints Don't Lie, utilizing the same director and cast....
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1951
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Presumably, Savage Drums was an attempt by Lippert Studios to launch an adventure series along the lines of "Jungle Jim" and...
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1951
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This film features two mystery stories featuring Hugh "the Beaver's TV Dad" Beaumont. First, he is hired to go to an auction...
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1951
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Lippert's Fingerprints Don't Lie stars Richard Travis as fingerprint expert James Stover. At the moment, Stover is attempting...
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1951
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In this wartime espionage comedy, a mentally-ill soldier looks exactly like the notorious enemy spy who has been trying to...
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1951
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Ninety per cent of Little Big Horn takes place before Custer's Last Stand; thus, the emphasis is on character and suspense...
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1951
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In this comedy, a dimwitted fellow bumbles off in search of the marriage license bureau and instead finds himself in a...
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1951
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In this detective drama, a gritty San Francisco gumshoe finds himself among those suspected of committing a string of...
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1951
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the...
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1951
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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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Gunfire stars bantam-weight western favorite Don Barry as legendary outlaw Frank James. Actually, Frank is an ex-outlaw when...
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1950
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1950
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Lippert Studio's first 1951 release was the compact western 3 Desperate Men. The title characters are the Denton Brothers,...
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1950
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Despite its title, Western Pacific Agent is a contemporary crime melodrama. Kent Taylor stars as a railroad detective,...
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1950
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Written and produced by its star, Donald Barry, Train to Tombstone was a low-budget version of the classic Stagecoach (1939)....
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1950
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From Lippert Studios, the same company responsible for I Shot Jesse James, comes I Shot Billy the Kid. Those who know their...
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1950
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1950
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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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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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A late entry in Monogram's Jimmy Wakely musical Western series, Brand of Fear features a nice performance by Gail Davis,...
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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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In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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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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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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This bargain-basement sequel is unusual in that it completely contradicts the conclusions drawn by its predecessor,...
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1946
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone...
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1946
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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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A New-York-bound hitchhiker is hit by a car. The driver, a successful art dealer, stops and finds that he has hit a...
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1945
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In this crime drama a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job...
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1945
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Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part...
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1945
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Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is...
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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1944
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Bluebeard casts the saturnine John Carradine as Gaston, a popular painter in 19th century Paris. Unbeknownst to the...
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1944
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A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time,...
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1944
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The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery...
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1944
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Having worked as a duo in the first three entries of Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" series, veteran Western stars Ken...
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1944
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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian...
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1944
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1944
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Campy Bela Lugosi plays a deranged scientist in this Monogram -produced horror movie. This time, Lugosi and his partner...
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1944
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Having functioned as Alvin J. Neitz's assistant director in the first two "Trail Blazers" Westerns, Monogram...
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1943
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During the '40s, Monogram ground out musical comedies by the ton, most of them starring their resident song-and-dance cutie...
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1943
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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1943
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Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I...
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1943
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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1943
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Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after...
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1943
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Amateur fighter and all-around bully Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) tries to cheat in a pool game with hustler Harry Wycoff...
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1943
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Ghosts on the Loose (which features no ghosts whatsoever) is perhaps the best-known of Monogram's "East Side Kids" series....
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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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Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western...
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1943
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An amoral gambler tries to beat a murder rap by adopting an orphaned newsboy in this drama. He takes in the lad to show the...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his...
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1943
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Even non-fans of the East Side Kids will get a goodly share of laughs out of the 1943 series entry Clancy Street Boys. The...
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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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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In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob...
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1942
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1942
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City of Silent Men comes so close to being a "model" "B" picture that it's a downright shame it just misses the mark. The...
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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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After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot...
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1942
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Monogram's "Rough Riders" rolled along smoothly with the 1942 entry Down Texas Way. Once again, the star trio consists of...
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1942
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The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost...
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1942
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Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot...
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1942
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An unusually sentimental endeavor from rough-and-ready Monogram pictures, Road to Happiness stars former 20th Century-Fox...
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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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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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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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Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders"...
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1941
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Based on the long-running comic strip by Gene Byrne, PRC's Reg'lar Fellers was intended as the first of a series of 6-reel...
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1941
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1941
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The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the...
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1941
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Monogram Pictures launched its lucrative "Rough Riders" western series with 1941's Arizona Bound. Producer Scott Dunlap hoped...
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1941
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In their second Monogram caper, Knuckles (Dave O'Brien) and the East Side Kids (Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Sunshine Sammy...
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1940
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Despite the ridicule of the rest of the East Side Kids, Mugs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) aspires to be a jockey. He gets his chance...
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1940
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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1940
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Mystery Plane is one of the better-known entries in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series, if only because of its frequent TV...
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1939
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Tailspin Tommy (played by John Trent) flies again in Monogram's Sky Patrol. The plot is motivated by an airborne smuggling...
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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1939
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Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace...
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1939
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Singing cowboy Bob Baker dispenses plenty of Prairie Justice in this 58-minute western. When his father is bushwacked and...
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1938
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Producer George A. Hirliman attempted to revive the popular "Rex, King of Wild Horses" films of the 1920s with his 1938...
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1938
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A woman is brutally strangled and her body stuffed into a suitcase in this otherwise rather frivolous low-budget thriller....
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1938
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Directed by Universal hack George WaGGner (yes, he insisted on being billed this strange way), Guilty Trails was the fifth of...
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1938
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Directed by the veteran J.P. McGowan, Where the West Begins was the fourth of 22 Westerns -- some with music -- starring Jack...
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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 this drama, a bookkeeper ignores his employer's disapproval and continues to see the boss' daughter. Later the boss ends...
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1937
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Also released as The Gentleman from California, this budget-conscious swashbuckler is strongly reminiscent of The Mark of...
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1937
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Though released by Republic, The Oregon Trail was actually filmed by the Lone Star unit at Monogram. John Wayne stars in a...
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1936
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this formula western as Gene Autry (so far, so good), who teams up with his buddy Frog...
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1936
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This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of...
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1936
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In this drama, a writer, dissatisfied with his flagging career, decides to raise some money by walking from New York to San...
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1936
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1935
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Make a Million stars Charles Starrett in one of his last non-western roles, as idealistic college professor Jones. Because of...
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1935
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This peppy Monogram meller stars Robert Armstrong as a big-city newspaper reporter. After getting a bonus, Armstrong...
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1935
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John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired...
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1935
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Heroic and crusty old Cappy Ricks takes on lobbyists who are trying to pass a law banning shingles on roofs to force...
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1935
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Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting...
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1935
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Lost in the Stratosphere is one of three Monogram vehicles for James Cagney's look-alike brother William (later a successful...
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1935
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Edward Eggleston's best-selling novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster was brought to the screen in 1935 by Monogram Pictures, which...
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1935
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With a 45-minute running time, or thereabouts, Texas Terror was John Wayne's shortest Lone Star/Monogram Western and far from...
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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1935
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Earl Dwire supplies a deliciously ripe performance as a half-breed outlaw in this early John Wayne Western from Monogram....
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1935
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Ann Rutherford, who would later rise to fame in the Andy Hardy series at M-G-M and in a number of musical roles, made one of...
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1935
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An average entry in the otherwise above-average Monogram/"Lone Star" Western series starring John Wayne, this film is...
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1935
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1935
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In this mystery, an international news correspondent is fatally shot with three bullets. Now three men stand accused of the...
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1935
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In this children's movie, a married vaudevillian team learns that talent scouts are looking for the new Shirley Temple....
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1935
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This amusing lampoon of low-budget filmmaking is set in motion when fly-by-night entrepreneur Bradley Page talks small-towner...
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1935
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In this, his fourth Western for Republic Pictures, John Wayne plays John Middleton, a would-be rodeo rider forsaking his...
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1935
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Westward Ho begins as hero John Wyatt (John Wayne) vows to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of cattle rustlers....
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1935
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Frisco Waterfront stars Ben Lyon as California gubernatorial candidate Glenn Burton. A freak election-day accident at the...
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1935
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John Wayne's easy-going charm truly began to manifest itself in this, one of his later "Lone Star" Westerns for Monogram....
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1935
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A young John Wayne is charged with building a road into the title valley in this routine Western from Monogram. The building...
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1935
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The third entry in John Wayne's superior Lone Star series for producer Paul Malvern, The Lucky Texan features Wayne as Jerry...
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1934
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Comparatively little known, this Monogram thriller is a remarkably concise adaptation of Wilkie Collins' lengthy 1868 mystery...
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1934
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Based on Adam Hull Shirk's moth-eaten 1927 play The Ape, this comedy-mystery-thriller is one of those static, ham-fisted...
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1934
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Set within the steamy Louisiana bayous, this melodrama chronicles the reconciliation between an embittered bereaved mother...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, Manhattan Love Song charts the misadventures of the madcap Stewart sisters, Jerry...
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1934
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A rather nifty little science fiction-thriller/murder mystery from Poverty Row company Monogram, Mystery Liner was based on a...
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1934
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This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles...
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1934
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In perhaps the most haunting opening of any B-Western, Randy Rides Alone has John Wayne enter a deserted saloon filled with...
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1934
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John Wayne attempts to locate Shirley Jean Rickert's wayward father in this low-budget Western from his days with Monogram....
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1934
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Definitely the most expensive-looking of John Wayne's "Lone Star" westerns, The Star Packer casts "the Duke" as U.S. marshal...
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1934
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After helping prevent a bank robbery, young drifter John Weston (John Wayne) is assigned by Marshal Higgins (George "Gabby"...
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1934
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John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for...
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1934
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1934
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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1933
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Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations...
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1933
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A good idea never really gets off the ground in this circus melodrama/western starring Bob Steele. The bantamweight cowboy...
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1933
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So unknown was John Wayne in 1934 that the Variety review of the "B"-western Sagebrush Trail fails to list Wayne in the cast!...
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1933
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An oil rigger, laboring in the Singapore swamps, falls in love with an English socialite and causes all kinds of problems in...
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1933
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In the first of his 16 Westerns for Monogram, John Wayne plays Singin' Sandy Saunders, a drifter who witnesses what he at...
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1933
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Filmed on glorious locations at the foot of California's Mount Whitney by ace cinematographer Archie Stout, this...
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1932
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Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele took to the air in this his second-to-last Western for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World...
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1932
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Filmed in the desert near Lake Elsinore and Lake Hemet, CA, and in the San Jacinto Mountains, The Man From Hell's Edges was...
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1932
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In his third of six low-budget Westerns for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide, diminutive cowboy ace Bob Steele was...
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1932
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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1930
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Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular...
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1928
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