With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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In this routine western set in 1864 in Montana, U.S. Marshal Jim McDowell (James Philbrook) is trying to safely get a...
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1962
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Entering into a poker game with a fellow named Jonesy (George Neise), Maverick ends up winning big--and as a result becomes...
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1962
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Forced to shoot and kill tresspasser Jeb Hoad, Joe Cartwright is set upon by Jeb's wildcat daughter Willow (Anita Sands)....
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1961
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Carter Gilman (Walter Kinsella) abruptly vanishes from his home while he is having breakfast with his daughter Muriell (Kaye...
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1961
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After winning $6500 in a poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) and Beau (Roger Moore) wire the money ahead to Denver via telegraph....
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1960
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In this run-of-the-mill western, one of the few films directed by producer Wallace MacDonald, a rancher has been falsely...
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Dave Marlow
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1959
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No sooner has he arrived in the town of Hollow Rock than Bret (James Garner) loses his money in a crooked poker game....
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1958
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A gang of racketeers has set up an illegal juke-box racket in the LA area. Tavern and restaurant owners are being strongarmed...
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1958
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Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides alone through Texas, en route to his future home of Mexico. He is sidetracked during a...
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1958
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In this action melodrama, the troubled lives of three young robbers are presented. One of these is a college dropout and...
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1957
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Adapted from his own TV play by Reginald Rose, Dino stars Sal Mineo (who also appeared in the TV version) in the title role....
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1957
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Produced by Bert I. Gordon, The Beginning of the End is a menacing onslaught of giant-sized grasshoppers. Department of...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go after the Person or Persons Unknown who have been robbing homes while the...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) chase after a gang of young punks who have pulled off some thirty holdups in the...
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1957
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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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This high-flying thriller utilizes exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action--an interesting and authentic look...
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1956
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Blackjack Ketchum, the real-life gunslinger who'd previously been a peripheral character in several westerns, is herein...
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1956
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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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1956
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Even though it's Thanksgiving Week, all days off at the LAPD are cancelled in hopes of capturing a brutal holdup man who...
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1956
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Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I....
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1956
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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1956
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Columbia's The Werewolf is not nearly as generic as its title would suggest: in fact, it is one of the better films of its...
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1956
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A juvenile delinquent in the "holding tank" lets slip that his older brother is planning to rob a loan office. Though Friday...
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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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Based on the radio series of the same name, Gang Busters was an episodic documentary-style tale of criminals brought to...
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Detective Walsh
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1955
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A gangster is killed by a big man who pays no attention to bullets, and who leaves glowing fingerprints. Police scientist...
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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1955
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One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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1955
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The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
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1955
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Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton,...
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1955
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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Two bank robbers get away with 250,000 dollars in unmarked, unrecorded bills, murdering a guard in the process. The police...
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1954
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Yet another serial from penny-pinching producer Sam Katzman, the fifteen chapter Gunfighters of the Northwest suffered from...
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1954
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In this entry in the Bomba series of jungle adventures, the jungle boy must retrieve a valuable Watusi statue after it is...
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1954
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson...
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1954
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Prince of Pirates is fairly elaborate for a Sam Katzman production, though its low budget does betray itself in the closing...
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1953
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A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to...
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1952
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Monogram's on-and-off "Northwest Mountie" series was on again with 1952's Northwest Territory. Ostensibly based on a...
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1952
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Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who...
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1952
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Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were still referred to as Indo-China when this Sam Katzman-produced adventure quickie was filmed....
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1952
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The 15-episode Columbia serial Blackhawk was based on the comic book created by Reed Crandall and Charles Cuidera. The title...
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Olaf
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1952
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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1951
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around,...
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1951
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Texans Never Cry but they sure do sing a lot in this Gene Autry western. Cast as a Texas Ranger, Autry is trying to get the...
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1951
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Jon Hall is right in his element in the Columbia low-budgeter Hurricane Island. Hall plays Captain Carlos Montalvo,...
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1951
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Byington, a retired teacher, sells her apartment complex to ex-gangsters who begin kicking out the tenants. Byington tries to...
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1951
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In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western...
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1951
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Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts...
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1950
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1950
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As an actor, Eddy Arnold was a good country-western singer. In Hoedown, Eddy plays himself, while the acting burden was...
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1950
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The Fighting Stallion stars Bill Edwards as Lon Evans, an ex-GI who is slowly losing his eyesight. Lacking a seeing-eye dog,...
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Cmdr. Patrick
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1950
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Rhys Williams is afforded the leading role in Columbia's Tyrant of the Sea. The film borrows a few pages from Jack London's...
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1950
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The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan...
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1950
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In their last feature film, the Cisco Kid (Duncan renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) come up against a vicious gang who is...
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1950
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Tim Holt and Richard Martin, RKO's resident western good guys, are back in Dynamite Pass. Usually cast as cowpunchers, Holt...
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Mizzouri
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1950
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Miles and miles of stock footage were used to pad out the 67-minute running time of Forbidden Jungle. The newly-shot scenes...
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Tom Burton
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1950
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A state rangers rides out to find rustlers who have stolen from every ranch in the territory except a hot-headed loner, whom...
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1950
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Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia's...
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1950
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The second of Columbia's Superman serials, the 15-episode Atom Man Vs. Superman stars Kirk Alyn in the dual role of Clark...
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1950
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1950
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Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in...
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1949
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Quickie producer Sam Katzman gathered together a few leftover costumes, sets and props from past Columbia "A" pictures, and...
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Joe Miles
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1949
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Lash LaRue stars as U.S. deputy, with Al "Fuzzy" St. John as his comic-relief deputy. Lash and Fuzzy are on the trail of El...
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1949
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The legendary Knights of the Round Table came to the screen in 1949 courtesy of penny-pinching serial producer Sam Katzman. A...
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1949
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This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in...
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1949
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The 15th film in the Bowery Boys series, Angels in Disguise combines lowbrow humor with "film noir" melodramatics....
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1949
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Following up on the popular 1943 film serial The Batman, this 15-part serial is about a nefarious masked figure called the...
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1949
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1948
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1948
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For You I Die was one of several atmospheric melodramas released by the short-lived firm of Film Classics. Escaping from the...
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1947
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In this suspenseful, convoluted low-budget mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector travels to the Big Apple to investigate the...
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1947
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