The must-be-seen-to-be-believed Fastest Guitar Alive offers singer Roy Orbison in his one and only movie starring role....
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1968
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On trial for murder, Hoss Cartwright may well be sent to the gallows on circumstantial evidence. Worse still, Hoss is...
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1968
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National Intelligence Agent Dan Street (Richard Egan) is on the trail of some stolen laser rubies. It is assumed the agents...
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1968
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The ninth season of Bonanza began on September 17, 1967 with the episode titled "Second Chance". Ben Cartwright joins an army...
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1967
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In this adventure, a commercial plane crashes in a remote South American jungle. All but one of the passengers survive....
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1967
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Future movie-studio executive Tony Bill is cast as halfbreed Charlie Two, who has sworn to killi the Cartwrights to avenge...
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Big Charlie
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1966
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In her third and final Perry Mason appearance, Fay Wray is incongruously cast as voodoo dancer Mignon Germaine, the mother of...
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1965
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Former child star Eddie Hodges is cast as Skeeter Dexter, who has the acute ability to communicate with animals. After...
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1965
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In Volume 47 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a computerized form of...
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1965
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The Woolner Brothers, ever on the cutting edge of cinema with rank imitations of popular hits, strike again with Flight of...
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Sir Hubert
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1961
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This appallingly bad sci-fi film about an invisible bank-robber (Douglas Kennedy) was shot back-to-back with...
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Joey Faust
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1960
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Paladin (Richard Boone) returns to his hotel room to find the dead body of his friend Charlie Blackburn. Strapping the murder...
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1960
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Oilman Charles Houston (Byron Palmer) might have gotten away with murdering his wife had he not be "captured" on film by...
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1960
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A routine western with a classic theme, the "lone Texan" of the title is Clint Banister (Willard Parker) who finds trouble at...
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Phillip Harvey
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1959
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is hired to impersonate millionaire Cornelius Van Rensselaer Jr. (Wynn Pearce) at an important business...
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1959
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Based on a classic exercise in existentialism by Ambrose Bierce, this episode is set during the Civil War. Condemned to death...
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1959
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The lives of two men, who under normal circumstances might never have even met, are inextricably intertwined in the 12 hours...
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1959
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Unscrupulous trader Mike Wilson (Jack Warden molests two Paiute Indian women, then manages to place the blame on Adam...
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1959
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A confused horror yarn set in the Deep South, Alligator People stars Richard Crane as a husband who becomes accidently...
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1959
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This second theatrical-feature spin-off of TV's Lone Ranger series stars, as ever, Clayton Moore as the Masked Rider of the...
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Ross Brady
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1958
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The distinguished CBS dramatic anthology Studio One moved from New York to Hollywood with this adaptation of David Karp's...
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1958
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Although the trial of young Theodore Balfour (Tyler MacDuff), who was accused of killing his father Lawrence (Bruce Bennett),...
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1958
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Dorothy Provine gives her all to the title role in The Bonnie Parker Story. Billed in the picture's ad campaign as "the...
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1958
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is one of several stagecoach passengers who are attacked by the Apaches. With their coach destroyed, 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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Harrison
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1957
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Broadway musical star and celebrated concert singer Barbara Cook makes a rare TV appearance in this chilling episode. Bored...
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1957
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Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) comes to the aid of restaurant owner Morey Allen (Robert Osterloh) and waitress Dixie Dayton (Kay...
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1957
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Last of the Badmen gets started in 1880 Chicago, as detective Dan Barton (George Montgomery) prepares to head westward....
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Hawkins
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1957
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This wide-screen Republic western is yet another retelling of the James Brothers saga--albeit one with a few unexpected...
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1957
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In this musical, an ex-fan dancer leaves the burlesque to start a new in a small town with her two teenage children. There...
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Tom Griffith
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1957
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Generous portions of The Secret Land, the 1948 documentary on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, were worked into the action of...
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Capt. Burnham
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1957
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Also known as Wiretapper and The Jim Vaus Story, this low-budget production begins as a crime melodrama, then bumpily segues...
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1956
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In one of his last appearances in a Hollywood production, Edmund Purdom plays Korean war veteran Paul Quentin. Keeping his...
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1956
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1956
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Bank robber Bud Carey goes on the lam after brutally killing a bank guard during his latest heist. Taking no chances, Friday...
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1956
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Richard Widmark once again essays a character who could be either hero or heel in the rugged western The Last Wagon. After...
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1956
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Working in cooperation with a US Postal Service inspector (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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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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Charlie Veer
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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1955
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Working in concert with FBI agent Tom Ashford (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) inaugurate an...
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1955
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Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who...
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1955
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Action star Phil Carey once more dons Cavalry Blue in Columbia's Massacre Canyon. This time, Carey plays the unsavory role of...
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Sgt. James Marlowe
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1954
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A young police officer tries his best to assuage the fears of his pregnant wife by refusing dangerous new jobs. But despite...
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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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Tino Morelli
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1954
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This western offers one of Hollywood's more historically accurate accounts of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The story...
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1954
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Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no...
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1954
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There are few surprises in The Lone Gun--and few lulls, either. Things get under way when ex-marshal George Montgomery rides...
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1954
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Technically a "B" western, Gun Belt is a notch or two above the norm. George Montgomery stars as former outlaw Billy Ringo,...
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1953
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Mark Stevens stars as a Navy pilot named Bingham in this paean to the modern-day submarine service. Covering the years 1941...
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Gates
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1953
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1953
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Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it...
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1953
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Jack McCall, the man who shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back, is presented in a sympathetic light in this "revisionist"...
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"Wild" Bill Hickok
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1953
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War Paint stars Robert Stack as a courageous U.S. Cavalry lieutenant, assigned to deliver a peace treaty to a powerful Indian...
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1953
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Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action,...
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1953
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1953
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Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years...
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1953
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Safari Drums was the ninth entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield once more stars as Bomba,...
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Brad Morton
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1953
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Also known as The Tall Lie, For Men Only was a hard-hitting if somewhat gratuitous expose of college fraternity "hazing." A...
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1952
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In this lively adventure, an American ambassador arrives in India as it prepares to fight a civil war. He soon learns that...
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Kevin O'Hara
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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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Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort...
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George Keane
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1952
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In this exciting actioner a daring Eurasian woman gets involved with a shipwrecked engineer whom she rescues from a remote...
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Frenchie
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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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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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John Phillips
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1951
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Columbia's Colorado Uprising was neither expensive enough to qualify as an "A" picture nor inexpensive enough to qualify as a...
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1951
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Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia...
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1951
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Bomba the Jungle Boy--aka Johnny Sheffield--makes his fifth screen appearance in Monogram's Lion Hunters. Bomba's task this...
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Martin
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1951
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Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time...
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1951
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Unlike his earlier Warner Bros. westerns, Errol Flynn's Montana was strictly a programmer, inexpensively produced and...
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Rodney Ackroyd
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1950
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Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts...
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Cliff Roberts
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1950
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Can there actually have once been a film in which an IRS agent is the hero? Yes, and it was titled Revenue Agent....
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Steve Adams
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1950
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The Next Voice You Hear was a pet project of MGM producer Dore Schary, who lavished more attention on this modestly budgeted...
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1950
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1950
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Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana....
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1950
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip stars Republic horse-opera hero Monte Hale. This time, Steve Howard (Hale) comes to the aid of Joe...
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Joe Bearclaws
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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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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Bob Mitchell
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1949
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The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood...
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1949
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Zachary Scott uncharacteristically plays for laughs in Warner Bros.' One Last Fling. Scott plays Larry Pearce, the dullish...
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Victor Lardner
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1949
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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Ken Vedder
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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1949
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To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or...
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1948
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In this drama, a killer and a driver accidently run over a girl while fleeing a murder scene. The pursuing detective is sure...
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1948
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get...
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1948
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This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second...
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1948
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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Lee Price
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1948
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In this drama, a California artist becomes a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married singer. Her husband...
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due...
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1947
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In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door,...
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1947
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all...
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1947
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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Basil Rathbone is the batty physician of the title, a sophisticated gentleman who woos and weds several of his wealthy women...
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1941
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Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera...
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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1941
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In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a...
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1941
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first...
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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1941
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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1940
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1940
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