A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired...
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1994
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Rocker John Mellencamp both directed and starred in this drama about a well-known musician who returns to his old home town,...
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Grandpa Parks
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1992
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Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover...
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1991
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The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western...
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1991
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This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the...
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1991
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The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the...
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1990
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The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie...
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1988
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Aspiring to become her school's first male drum major, Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) is thwarted by the "good ol' boy"...
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1988
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Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial...
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1986
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In this actioner, a tough young woman and her ex-con lover leave a trail of destruction across the South while trying to...
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1985
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In this rather blatant "all-white" derivation of the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor starrer Stir Crazy, Christopher Lemmon and...
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1984
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1984
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Set during Prohibition in a tiny Southern town filled with colorful characters, this all-star comedy follows the exploits of...
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1983
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1981
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1980
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) tries to get over the departure of her fiancé, Almanzo...
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1980
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1980
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Veteran character actor Dub Taylor appears as old man Houston, who takes in a pair of blind youngsters who have run away from...
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1980
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It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend...
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1979
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A secluded mountain paradise becomes a snowbound deathtrap when a devastating blizzard washes over the landscape and one...
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1978
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Heartbreak Motel enjoyed a brief theatrical life on the drive-in circuit, then settled down into Late Late Show screenings....
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1978
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Doc Hooker's Bunch is a low-budget western farce about a travelling medicine show. The mission of Doc Hooker and his bunch is...
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1978
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In this broad, occasionally slapstick comedy, Dewey and Wallace (Tim Conway and Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are...
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Warden Warden
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1978
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1977
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Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a...
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1977
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1976
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In this children's adventure, an 11-year-old Quaker youth sets across the prairies of Montana to avenge his parents' murder....
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S. Gravely
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1976
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1976
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This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The...
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1976
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Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy...
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1976
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1976
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Designed for the regional family trade, Pony Express Rider is a fond harkback to the Saturday afternoon westerns of old....
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1976
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Jack Conrad directs and stars in this tense heist film concerning a young and inexperienced bank robber who walks away from...
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1975
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In this violent low-budget outing, an African-American singer is kidnapped and forced to endure all sorts of torments and...
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1975
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Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who...
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1975
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Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women...
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1975
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1975
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A duo of daring lawbreakers, who call themselves Flash (Roger Davis) and Firecat (Tricia Sembera), speed, steal, and evade...
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1975
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The made-for-TV Shootout in a One-Dog Town is a rare foray into straight-faced adventure by "comedy western" specialist...
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1974
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As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet...
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1974
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The doctors and paramedics encounter unexpected difficulties while planning a surprise party for head nurse Dixie (Julie...
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1974
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Richard Widmark is Brock, a salty NYC cop who retires to a small town in California. Brock's plans to become a peaceful...
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1973
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A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between...
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1973
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Mark Twain's classic tale is brought to the screen for the fourth time, this time with a tuneful score by Richard M. Sherman...
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1973
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The Rampart emergency staff must find bed space for its own members when Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is trapped under a pile...
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1973
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A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt. ~ Kristie...
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1973
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1972
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This action/comedy picture follows the adventures of a group of anti-war, anti-establishment guerillas, who come up with a...
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1972
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Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior...
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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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This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black...
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1971
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1971
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1971
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Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved...
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1971
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The cantankerous Calhouns-nouveau riche prospector Luke Calhoun (Dub Taylor) and his man-hungry daughter Meena (Ann...
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Luke Calhoun
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1971
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The Partridges join the "Save the Whales" movement thanks to Laurie (Susan Dey), who has talked them into recording her own...
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1971
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Introduced in the earlier episode "Meena", the scraggly Calhouns make a return Bonanza appearance in the April 5, 1970...
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Luke Calhoun
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1970
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A father-and-son team battle to protect their Southern farm from military deserters during the Civil War. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1970
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Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after...
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1970
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A Man Called Horse stars Richard Harris as Lord John Morgan, an English peer cast somewhat adrift in the American West....
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1970
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When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any...
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1970
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Gordon Parks' adaptation of his own novel The Learning Tree stars Kyle Johnson as Newt, a black teenager living in 1920s...
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1969
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This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by...
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1969
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"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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1969
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Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western...
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1969
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1969
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Originally telecast on November 16, 1969, "Meena" was the first of three Bonanza episodes featuring the troublesome Calhouns....
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1969
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1968
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This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on...
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1968
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Dub Taylor guest-stars as Ben, the brother-in-law of Mayberry's fix-it man Emmett Clark. Conspiring with Emmett's wife Martha...
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Ben Beecham
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1968
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Three Guns For Texas is a routine western. Taken from the television series "Laredo," three 30-minute episodes are strung...
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1968
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The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling...
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1968
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In this comedy, a casino owner in Barcelona absconds with a gangster's fortune and is chased to Monte Carlo where he...
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1967
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Ever the champion of the underdog, Hoss Cartwright is determined to prove that the gold mine owned by his friend McNulty...
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1967
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Stranded in Swineville, U.S.A., the Monkees find themselves in the middle of the long-standing feud between the Weskitts and...
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1967
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In this comic episode, Hoss and Joe Cartwright embark on yet another big-business scheme. Investing in two rabbits, our...
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Barlow
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1967
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British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield...
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1967
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Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's...
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1967
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1966
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Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its...
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1965
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Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid...
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1965
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In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment...
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1965
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Outraged when a pet cat named Max receives a $650,000 inheritance, Martin (Ray Walston) demands that Tim (Bill Bixby) write...
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1964
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Andy learns to his chagrin that ex-convict Luke Comstock (Leo Gordon) is coming back to Mayberry. Inasmuch as Andy was...
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1963
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First telecast April 29, 1963, "Mountain Wedding" served to introduce Howard Morris as rock-throwing village idiot Ernest T....
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1963
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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1963
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A group of wildcatting oil drillers battle an Oklahoma oil baron for the rights of a potentially high yield field. The...
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1963
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This children's movie details the adventure of a boy (Kevin Corcoran) who tries to unravel the secrets of the Mooncussers, a...
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1962
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Writer-director Montgomery Pittman's final Twilight Zone offering was the bucolic comedy "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank."...
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Mr. Peters
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1962
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1962
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Wealthy J.J. Gideon (Otto Kruger) disapproves of the romance between his grandson David (Karl Held) and David's secretary...
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1961
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A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the...
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1961
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James Best makes the first of two Andy Griffith Show appearances as itinerant guitarist Jim Lindsey. Tossed in the Mayberry...
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1960
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1960
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Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being...
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1959
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In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will...
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1958
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In this adventurous yarn, a group of former Army buddies have a reunion in New Orleans and decide to go looking for buried...
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1958
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Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer...
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1958
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1958
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In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One...
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1956
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1956
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Rattlesnake Jones
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1955
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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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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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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1954
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At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to...
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1954
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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1954
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In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook....
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1954
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Randolph Scott once more contributes mightily to Warner Bros.' annual box-office gross in the well-mounted western...
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1954
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A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor)...
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1954
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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In his second-to-last Monogram Western, country & western singer Jimmy Wakely does hardly any singing at all as he and...
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1949
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A late entry in Monogram's Jimmy Wakely musical Western series, Brand of Fear features a nice performance by Gail Davis,...
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1949
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Monogram's four-year-old Jimmy Wakely western series began to wind down with Courtin' Trouble. As was customary, Jimmy does...
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1949
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was in his final year of movie stardom when Gun Runner was released by Monogram. Wakely has more...
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1949
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In one of his better later Westerns, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely comes to the aid of a reformed outlaw and his wayward son....
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely stars in Monogram's Silver Trails. It all begins when Jimmy and his comical sidekick Dub...
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1949
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Ostensibly a Jimmy Wakely musical Western -- the singer's final starring vehicle -- The Lawless Code is really a showcase for...
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1949
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Hired to catch a killer horse named Midnight, Jimmy Wakely and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) get themselves in trouble...
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1948
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A Texas Ranger is once again falsely accused of murder in this above-average singing-cowboy oater from Monogram. This time,...
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1948
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Two communities fight to become county seat in this Jimmy Wakely music western from Monogram Pictures. When Rainbow's End,...
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1948
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In this western a singing cowboy and his side-kick rescue a pretty gal who runs a stagecoach and finds herself in trouble. ~...
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1948
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Country and western warbler-turned-cowboy star Jimmy Wakely, normally a colorless and unexciting screen presence, is actually...
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1948
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In this tuneful western, a brave hero endeavors to save the town from the evil villains who are trying to poison its water...
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1948
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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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In this western, a cowboy crooner finds himself entangled with ruthless rustlers posing as Rangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1945
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Columbia Pictures "borrowed" a few pages from Damon Runyon when crafting this entry in the Durango Kid B-Western series. When...
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1945
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Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle...
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Cannonball
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Columbia Pictures once again trotted out the old tale of rival stage lines competing for the valuable government mail...
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1945
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1944
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Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived...
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Cannonball
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1944
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In this western, the good-guy and his trusty side-kick rescue a pretty gal whose father's cows are threatened by villainous...
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1944
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1944
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In this western, a rancher turns his property into a dude ranch for soldiers after he is drafted. Featured upon this ranch...
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1944
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This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to defeat a ruthless range...
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1944
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In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant. Unfortunately, the...
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1944
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Riders of the Northwest Mounted was one of a handful of "northerns" produced by Columbia's B-western unit. Stalwart...
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1943
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Ann Miller goes through her usual twinkle-toed paces in the quickie Columbia musical What's Buzzin', Cousin? The pencil-thin...
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1943
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This western features a flying cowboy. He is a rancher who became a pilot. As a pilot he staunchly defends the newly formed...
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Cannonball
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1943
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With Silver City Raiders, perennial western sidekick Russell Hayden launched his own starring series. Hayden plays "Lucky",...
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Cannonball
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1943
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1943
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A good entry in one of the better B-Western series of the 1940s, A Tornado in the Saddle starred Russell Hayden as the new...
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1942
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Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia...
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Cannonball
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1941
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Wild Bill Hickok is once more impersonated by Will Bill Elliot in the Columbia western Wildcat of Tucson. This time, Hickok...
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Cannonball
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1941
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Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in...
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Cannonball
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1941
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Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly...
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Cannonball
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1941
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As Wild Bill Hickok and sidekick Cannonball stalk a murderer, they encounter the killer's fiancee. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During...
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Cannonball
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1941
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The taciturn William Elliott stars in this above-average entry in Columbia's "Wild Bill Hickock" B-Western series. Returning...
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Cannonball
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1941
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Cannonball
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1941
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In the third of his four Wild Bill Saunders Westerns, Bill Elliott, "the Peaceable Man," is assigned by Governor Dawson...
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1940
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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Nevady
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1940
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The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the...
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Cannonball
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1940
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An average Columbia B-Western, Prairie Schooners once again features William Elliott as a highly fictitious Wild Bill...
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Cannonball
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1940
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1940
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Cowboy star Bill Elliot makes his first appearance in his familiar guise of "Wild Bill" in Columbia's Taming of the West....
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Cannonball
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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1938
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