Recently returned from hunting Tigers in India, sportsman Ellsworth (Parley Baer) declares that he has been placed under a...
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1959
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The 276th and final episode of the original 1950s version of Dragnet is an adaptation of a two-part radio drama, originally...
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1959
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A gang of thieves has been prowling around local bars and stealing payroll checks from inebriated employees, then forging the...
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1958
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Sometimes it pays to specialize, but not when you're a criminal pursued by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the reported kidnapping of wealthy businessman Tony Richman. The...
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1958
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Chicago Confidential may not have been the best of the late-1950s "expose" films, but it certainly boasted one of the most...
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1957
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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1957
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1957
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This is one of the last episodes of the long-running Bowery Boys film series. This time the trouble begins when a spoiled...
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1956
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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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Laramie
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to find out who has hijacked fourteen trucks in the past few weeks....
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1956
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With this film, the final American-produced motion picture serial, the once so powerful genre went out with a whimper....
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Ed marr
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1956
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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1955
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I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the...
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1955
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The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to...
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1955
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Crooked gambler "Bet-a-Million" Butler (Trevor Bardette) wagers that he can keep Superman (George Reeves) occupied while a...
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1953
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never...
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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1952
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Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of...
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1951
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I Was an American Spy is a true story, based on a series of autobiographical Reader's Digest articles written by Claire...
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1951
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Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his...
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1951
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Tall (and a bit heavy) in the saddle, Johnny Mack Brown stars in Blazing Bullets. Too long in tooth to pass a romantic lead,...
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1951
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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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Dorsey
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1950
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In a season that also brought the world such cinematic confessions as I Shot Jesse James (1949) and I Shot Billy the Kid...
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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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Whip Wilson stars in the formula Monogram western Silver Raiders. Cast as Arizona ranger Larry, Wilson goes undercover to...
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Bolard
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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 title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since...
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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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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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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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Gunslingers is another of Monogram's Whip Wilson western series, built around the bullwhip-wielding skills of its star. This...
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1950
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Lance
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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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Former juvenile star William Henry is the all-grown-up hero of Federal Man. Henry is cast as a government agent who dogs the...
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1950
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The postwar hot-rod craze spawned a whole new movie subgenre. This Monogram entry, titled simply Hot Rod, stars Jimmy Lydon...
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1950
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Carson
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1949
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This Allan "Rocky" Lane western offers nothing new under the sun. Lane's fans expected nonstop action, and that's what they...
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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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Haunted Trails is another of the long series of Whip Wilson westerns churned out by Monogram in the late 1940s. As before,...
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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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In this western a cowboy and his gang must take on a band of bad-to-the-bone female outlaws. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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PRC/Eagle-Lion's Eddie Dean western series came to an end with The Tioga Kid. Dean plays a dual role, as an upright Texas...
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Morino
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1948
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One of the better Roy Rogers films of its period, The Gay Ranchero also happens to be one of the more violent Rogers efforts....
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1948
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A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government...
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1948
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Produced in Kernville, California, this typical Jimmy Wakely singing Western from Monogram had the former radio troubadour...
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1947
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1946
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Inexpensive Cinecolor adds little to this standard Eddie Dean music western from bottom-of-the-barrel company PRC. Dean, as...
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1946
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A virtual remake of the 1943 "Trail Blazers" western Wild Horse Stampede, this unspectacular but pleasant Eddie Dean oater...
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1946
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A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada...
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Joe
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1945
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Comprised of 15 episodes from one of Republic Studio's favorite sci-fi serials, this chiller follows the terrifying exploits...
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1945
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Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage....
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1945
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1945
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in this 13 chapter Universal...
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1944
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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Dr. James Halsey
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1944
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In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the...
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1944
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Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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Directed by Lewis Collins and Ray Taylor, Raiders of Ghost City is a 13-chapter serial account revolving around the highly...
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1944
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1944
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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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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante....
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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1943
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Dennis
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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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A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to...
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1943
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The Range Busters bust the range once more in Monogram's Land of Hunted Men. This time around, the star trio consists of...
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1943
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When cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown left Universal for Monogram, he also left one last western, Arizona Trail, unfilmed. Thus...
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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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Denny
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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In this western the wild and wooley Range Busters are again out for justice. This time they are after a shady businessman...
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1943
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Blonde, tough-looking Claire Rochelle played the main villain(ess) in this low-budget Western, an entry in PRC's "The Lone...
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1942
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Juilliard-educated former opera-singer George Houston once again played vigilante turned champion of justice Tom Cameron,...
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1942
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In this, one of the last episodes of the Lone Rider series, the hero must prove himself innocent after his charged with 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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Handsome second-lead Dennis Moore took center stage in this entry in PRC's low-budget "Lone Rider" Western series. Moore, who...
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1942
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1942
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A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman,...
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1942
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In this contemporary western, clever cattle rustlers use shortwave radios to harvest lost doggies. Two brave heroes get...
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1942
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This contemporary western centers on two cowboy radio gossip columnists who get themselves in trouble after they begin...
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1942
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Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series was in its fifth year of production when Raiders of the Range was released in...
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1942
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1942
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Of the two PRC Anna May Wong vehicles filmed during the 1942-43 season, Bombs Over Burma is marginally the best, thanks to...
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1942
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1942
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In this western, "the Lone Rider," and his pardner catch the masked gunman that robbed a stage. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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Silver fox pelt thefts require the expertise of a federal investigator and his faithful canine. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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Producer Harry Sherman once again brought the "Hopalong Cassidy" unit to picturesque Lone Pine, CA, and the result was yet...
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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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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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1941
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In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron (George Houston) and his pal Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John are deputy...
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1941
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PRC's "Billy the Kid" series had two different stars over a six-year period. Bob Steele plays the title role in 1941's Billy...
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1941
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A saboteur who tampered with an experimental aeronautics device is pursued by a man and his dog in this tale of adventure...
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1941
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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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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Joe
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1941
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Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title...
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1941
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Mugs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), top dog of the East Side Kids, takes a job at an airplane plant. Here he grows suspicious of Dr....
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1941
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Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand...
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Lou Fleming
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1941
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Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises...
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1941
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In their first of two Monogram spook comedies, the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi square off in yet another haunted house. On...
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1941
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1941
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Good-ol' sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison...
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Slugger Martin
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1940
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In his sixth of nine Monogram releases of 1940, Tex Ritter played a U.S. Marshal coming to the aid of a beleaguered...
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1940
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Police detective Pat O'Day (Leon Ames) involves himself with a gang of slum kids led by Dutch Kuhn (Hally Chester) and Danny...
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Mileaway
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1940
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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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This "Three Mesquiteers" western entry stars Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke, Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin and...
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1940
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As in his previous two Westerns, Mexicali Kid and Wild Horse Canyon (both 1938), Jack Randall goes in search of his brother's...
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1939
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Amazingly, this Jack Randall series Western from Monogram was almost a remake of Randall's previous effort, Mexicali Kid....
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1939
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A frequent visitor to contemporary TV cable services, Monogram's Mutiny in the Big House affords stalwart supporting player...
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Johnny
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1939
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Irish Luck was one of a handful of Monogram actioners starring Frankie Darro as a crimesolving bellboy. The son of...
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1939
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A talented South American singer heads for New York to keep her innocent brother from being convicted of arson in this...
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1939
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A fearless young pilot helps turn around the lives of some young punks in this exciting episode of the "Tailspin Tommy" trio...
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1939
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Robert Emmett Tansey, production supervisor and head writer on Monogram's Jack Randall Westerns, had the gall this time...
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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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Kansas Kid
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1939
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Very cheaply produced, Rebellious Daughters was released on a theater-by-theater basis as an "exploitationer." Such familiar...
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Jimmie
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1938
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As directed by Bernard B. Ray, this 1938 programmer concerns Queenie, a German shepherd who routinely kills foxes and steals...
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1938
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and...
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1937
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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1937
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In this drama, a press agent loses his job and becomes a Hollywood radio columnist. He is angry about having to change...
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his...
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1936
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In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His...
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Cliff Barrington
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1936
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This interesting low-budget Western was advertized as "A lightning trigger action drama of the glorious west .. packed with...
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1936
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Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father in this...
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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1936
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1936
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As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
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1936
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Directed by the veteran Robert F. Hill -- who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym of Rock Hawkey -- this Rex Bell...
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1936
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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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Given a title like Sagebrush Troubadour, it virtually went without saying that the star of this 1935 western was singing...
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1935
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