In this version of the Mark Twain classic, Huck dodges the drudgery of an eastern boys school by faking his own drowning....
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1981
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The fourteenth and final season of Bonanza began on September 12, 1972 with a special two-hour episode. As originally written...
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1972
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Ponderosa ranchhand Dusty Rhodes (Lou Frizzell) has landed in jail. The only man who can clear Dusty is an itinerant,...
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1971
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Television newsman Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) holds fast to the maxim "seeing is believing" in this political/medical...
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1971
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Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western...
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1971
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As a result of a wager, Hoss and Joe Cartwright decide to enter politics, each supporting an opposing mayor candidate for...
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1968
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In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated...
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1968
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Burgess Meredith guest-stars as Irishman Ownie Dugan. Suddenly striking it rich, Ownie decides to strike a blow against...
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1967
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Geraldine Brooks, who played Ben Cartwright's first wife in the 1961 Bonanza episode "Elizabeth, My Love," was cast as Hoss...
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Demers
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1966
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Outraged at the high tax assessment levied on the Shady Rest Hotel, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is determined to outwit the...
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1966
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During a family camping trip in a large national park, Grandpa (Al Lewis) hears some faraway wolf calls and begins waxing...
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1965
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Under the influence of Martin's "benevolence light", brash, sarcastic Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) suddenly becomes warm...
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1965
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress pays her bills by working as a maid for various households. One of her...
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1965
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The Great Sioux Massacre is an entertaining pack of lies about Custer's Last Stand. General Custer (Philip Carey) is herein...
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1965
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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1965
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Wealthy junk dealer and mayoral candidate Mort Lynch (Ted De Corsia) decides to give a job to dissolute college dropout Barry...
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1964
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1964
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The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party....
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1964
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In this final chapter of a four-episode story arc, legendary Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper appears as herself. Hedda is up...
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1964
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Aspiring to be an ace crime reporter, Tim (Bill Bixby) hopes to use Uncle Martin's antennae to eavesdrop on police calls. As...
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1964
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While paging through their old high school annuals, Andy and Barney hit upon the notion of staging a class reunion. The boys...
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Ralph Hanes
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1963
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This week, Eddie (Tony Dow) and Wally (Tony Dow) land jobs at the Mayfield Dairy. While Wally works hard, Eddie spends most...
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Ted Worden
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1962
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Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed...
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1962
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Eleven of the twelve jurors in the murder trial of Jamie Wrenn (Jack Betts) have voted for a guilty verdict. The sole holdout...
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1962
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1960
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1960
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1960
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Seven Ways from Sundown is a well-wrought western by director Harry Keller, starring Audie Murphy in the title role (his...
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1960
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Although this story of the making of a gangland hoodlum reflects only some of the real history of the Detroit Purple Gang in...
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1960
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1960
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) and another...
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1959
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En route to his next assignment, Paladin is bushwacked, beaten, and stripped of everything he owns. Upon recovering, he...
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1959
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With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer...
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1959
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A brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive in this western. He is offered the job by...
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Ralph Hamilton
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1958
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After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in...
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1958
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In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1958
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A former fighter's younger brother decides that he too wants to enter the squared circle and so leaves his native Maine to...
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1958
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Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout...
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Gabe
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1958
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Fred MacMurray is the beleagured hero of the Universal western Day of the Badman. MacMurray plays circuit judge Jim Scott,...
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1958
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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1957
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In this routine possession potboiler, Peggie Castle plays a suburban housewife being slowly driven mad by the intrusive,...
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John
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1957
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Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the...
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1957
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"Wild Bill" Elliot once again plays diligent police lieutenant Boyle in Footsteps in the Night. This time, Doyle investigates...
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Sgt. Duncan
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1957
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1957
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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon is cast against type as a mean-spirited reform school alumnus in Chain of Evidence....
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Sgt. Duncan
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1957
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Calling Homicide was another of Bill Elliot's "working-man detective" efforts of the 1950s. This time, Elliot plays LA...
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Sgt. Duncan
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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1956
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In this entry in the Bowery Boys series, one of the members suddenly finds that he can predict winning numbers after he...
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1956
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The faces are new and the settings up-to-date, but otherwise An Annapolis Story is the tried-and-true "two guys and one girl"...
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1955
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1955
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Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in...
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1955
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A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted...
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1955
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Lippert Productions' Air Strike is grounded for most of its 63 minutes by its skintight budget. The much-awaited aerial...
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Lt. Richard Huggins
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1955
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Neville Brand plays one of his earliest good-guy roles in Return from the Sea. Brand plays a sailor named Maclish, who is a...
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1954
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The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who...
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1954
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In this western, the many travails of a wagonmaster on a Westward trek are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1954
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The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was...
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1954
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Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000...
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Neil Sanford
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1954
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Vic Barron (Mark Stevens) is an ex-detective from San Francisco whose career is ruined and family is destroyed because of his...
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in...
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1953
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Attractively filmed in Cinecolor, Roar of the Crowd is a better-than-average actioner from Allied Artists. Howard Duff plays...
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1953
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Another entry in the 3D sweepstakes, Hannah Lee is all but forgotten today. That's too bad, because the film at least has...
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Crashaw
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1953
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Jack Broder Productions sidestepped its usual distributor United Artists to release Combat Squad through Columbia. Set in...
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1953
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The Narrow Margin is generally considered a "model" B picture; some film buffs go farther than that, labelling this 1952 RKO...
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1952
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Noted Western director Budd Boetticher helmed this contemporary cowboy story. Tom Moody (John Lund) is a champion rodeo rider...
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Dobie
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1952
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Though Ben Johnson would have to wait until the 1970s before full stardom was bestowed upon him, 1952's Wild Stallion proved...
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1952
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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1952
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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1951
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In keeping with the postwar trend of on-location shooting, Quebec was actually lensed in Canada, rather than on some...
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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1951
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Roy Rogers enters the atomic age with this sci-fi western directed by serial ace William Witney. Our hero runs a pipeline...
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1951
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Robert Pirosh wrote and directed this little-known World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat...
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1951
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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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1951
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1951
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While a man recuperates from a heart-attack, he obsesses with the thought that his wife and his doctor are having an affair,...
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Jim Bannon's final "Red Ryder" western was the Cinecolor effort Cowboy and the Prizefighter. Aiding and abetting the...
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Steve
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1950
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Despite its somewhat lofty, Zane Grey-flavored title, The Vanishing Westerner is a modest Republic western, off and on the...
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1950
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Filmed in a two-tone process called Cinecolor, The Sundowners is a compact little western making good use of an old Hollywood...
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1950
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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1950
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RKO's resident cowboy star Tim Holt made his first 1950 appearance in Storm over Wyoming. Tim and his saddle pal Chito...
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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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1950
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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1950
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1950
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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1950
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1949
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Singing cowboy Monte Hale rides back into view in Republic's South of Rio. Borrowing a page from Hollywood's gangster-flick...
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1949
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To stop a madman from blowing up New York City, a researcher dons a flying suit and prepares for battle in this serial, later...
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1949
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Eddie Drake
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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1949
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From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne),...
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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1949
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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1948
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This prison drama is told via flashback and follows a group of prisoners bound for Alcatraz. En route, the group plans their...
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1948
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Tim Holt stars in Gun Smugglers, stretching his range by playing a character named Tim Holt. Our Hero, once again teamed with...
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1948
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1948
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The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A...
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1948
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The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty...
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1948
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Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star,...
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1948
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Returning to the scenic splendor of Lone Pine's Alabama Hills, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) tries to help retired...
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1948
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"This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson...
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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1948
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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As directed by Ande Lamb, this vintage oater finds an upstanding southerner, 'Texas' Jim Lambert ('Texas' Jim Lewis),...
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1947
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