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1940
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1940
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A lumber camp provides the setting for this romantic drama that chronicles the love between a nightclub singer, her new...
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1940
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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1939
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In this western, Roy Rogers rides out to stop angry Confederate terrorists from harassing Missouri residents because they...
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1939
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1939
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In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent...
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1939
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1939
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In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important...
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1939
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An enjoyably silly Gene Autry romp, this music Western had an early ecological message: Horse-power instead of tractors. Or...
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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1938
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Gene Autry stars in this vintage musical Western that pits a group of poor but honest cattle ranchers against two-faced real...
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1938
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Romance of the Rockies is considered the best of Tom Keene's starring westerns for Monogram. Keene is cast against type as a...
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1938
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In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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The second of six low-budget Ken Maynard Westerns produced by Max and Arthur Alexander, Six Shootin' Sheriff featured a...
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1938
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In this musical western, ranch owner "Lucky" Langham (Robert Homans) dies unexpectedly, and in his will he leaves his spread...
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1938
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Singing cowboy Jack Randall does his usual in Monogram's Danger Valley, Randall's second starring film. When someone...
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1938
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The creator of the famous jungle lord, Edgar Rice Burrough's and his production company are behind this Tarzan serial. For...
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1938
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Who better to direct Warner Bros.' Daredevil Drivers than B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, the fast-action specialist who staged the...
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1938
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The Three Mesquiteers ride again in the economical Republic sagebrusher Purple Vigilantes. The Mesquiteers in question are...
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Ross
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1938
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With the departure of John Wayne to more prestigious films, Robert Livingston returned to the role of Stony Brooke in...
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1938
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In this western, Roy Rogers plays a cowboy-congressman from a dustbowl state who travels to Washington, DC to lobby for badly...
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1938
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Filmed on location at Kernville, California, this otherwise average Tex Ritter singing Western employed on of the better...
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James Clark
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1937
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The third entry in a series of 22 Jack Randall Westerns, Stars Over Arizona was the last to be directed by the veteran Robert...
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1937
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As one of Harry Carey's mid-1930s independent westerns, Ghost Town is noted for its good, atmospheric cinematography (as...
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1937
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Bradley
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1937
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The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet...
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1937
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As cattlemen battle, a gunman arrives in Arizona for peace and quiet only to be entangled in their mess so assists the good...
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1937
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Gene Autry gets into a heated fight with an oil company in this very tuneful early entry in the Autry oeuvre, restored in...
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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1937
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Bob Steele once again goes in search for the outlaw who murdered his father in this average Western released by Republic...
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1937
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Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes...
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1937
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Based on the notorious Black Legion which had created quite a turmoil in Michigan a few years earlier, screenwriter Edmund...
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Sheriff Walker
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1937
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Barker
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1937
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Gene Autry is the star (but not the title character) of Oh, Susanna!, a Republic musical western. What plot there is consists...
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1937
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1937
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In this western, brand new rancher Bob Steele, a former gunslinger in search of a more peaceful life, finds his quiet...
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1937
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Though A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures went belly-up in 1936, he continued grinding out his popular Bob Steele westerns,...
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Swain
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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In his third starring Western, former radio singer Tex Ritter played a minstrel performer turned tax collector! During a...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. custom of casting their Dick Foran singing Westerns with whomever was available from the studio's large...
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1937
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Rex Bell was always an agreeable cowboy hero, even when stuck in such bottom-barrel oaters as Law and Lead. On this occasion,...
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Hawley
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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This average Tex Ritter music Western provided the former radio and Broadway performer with not one but two comedy sidekicks:...
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Jeffries
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1937
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Filmed in rapid succession over an 18-month period, the 19 Tom Tyler westerns for Reliable Productions tend to look alike at...
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Buck O'Neill
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1937
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The third of six Rex Bell Westerns produced by the Alexander brothers, Arthur and Max, The Idaho Kid was the first to be...
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Hollister
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1937
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A disgruntled ranger quits his job after a crooked state's attorney manages to get a case of murder thrown out of court in...
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Bud
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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Tom Tyler ground out 19 starring westerns for Reliable Pictures in the mid-1930s, of which Santa Fe Bound is neither the best...
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1937
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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The second-to-last Rex Bell Western for Poverty Row producers Max and Arthur Alexander, Stormy Trails was the only entry not...
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Stephen Varick
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1936
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1936
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Veteran silent screen star William Farnum earns one of his more prominent talking picture roles in this otherwise standard...
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1936
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Bottom-of-the-barrel Western filmmaking on all fronts -- save perhaps hero Tom Tyler's usual competent performance and a...
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Bud Walton
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1936
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this formula western as Gene Autry (so far, so good), who teams up with his buddy Frog...
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1936
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Bob Steele goes in search of the outlaw who killed both his parents and stole a valuable ring in this pedestrian western from...
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1936
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1936
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In his second "Range Rider" music Western for poverty row newcomer Grand National, Tex Ritter played Tex Saunders, the...
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1936
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Western favorite Bob Steele stars as Sundown Saunders, so named because of his remarkable ability to win at poker just at the...
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Sheriff Baker
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1936
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Caryl is played by Lois Wilde, but despite her title-character status Ms. Wilde is third-billed behind a pair of "juniors."...
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1936
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This interesting low-budget Western was advertized as "A lightning trigger action drama of the glorious west .. packed with...
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1936
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The Burroughs-Tarzan corporation, the folks who brought you the 1934 Guatemala-based serial The New Adventures of Tarzan, set...
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Storekeeper
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1936
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Tom Tyler stars in the B-Western Ridin' On as ranch hand Tom Rork. His family becomes involved in a feud with the neighboring...
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1936
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John Wayne stars in this Western as a law student seeking revenge on the ruthless land baron who killed his parents; after he...
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1936
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Speed Reporter affords the viewer an undistilled opportunity to watch legendary stuntman Richard Talmadge in action. So what...
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1936
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In his final Western for low-budget Diversion Pictures, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson plays a pony express rider who...
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1936
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In his second Western for Poverty Row producer A.W. Hackel, former football star Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of both his...
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Trent
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1935
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1935
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1935
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An apparently lost entry in the long-running Bob Steele Western series produced by A.W. Hackel, The Rider of the Law...
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1935
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In this, his fourth Western for Republic Pictures, John Wayne plays John Middleton, a would-be rodeo rider forsaking his...
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Emmett
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1935
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Earl Dwire supplies a deliciously ripe performance as a half-breed outlaw in this early John Wayne Western from Monogram....
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Zanti
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1935
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Toll of the Desert transcends its "B"-picture origins with a plotline that would have done Zane Grey proud. In one of his few...
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1935
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Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting...
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1935
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Weatherbeaten western star Harry Carey is the glue that holds the low-budget Wagon Trail together. Carey plays a sheriff who...
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Bob Collins
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1935
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Harry Carey's western series for bottom-of-the-barrel Ajax Pictures were definitely a mixed bag, but some were pretty good,...
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Luke Todd
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1935
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Released in the wake of the spooky The Big Calibre (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the spectacle of a villain...
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1935
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A superior Tim McCoy Western, Justice of the Range featured a range feud between John Mclean (Edward J. LeSaint) and his...
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1935
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Silent screen leading man Lawrence Gray stars in this low-budget thriller produced by legendary penny-pincher Sam Katzman....
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1935
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The third of four threadbare Westerns produced by Resolute Pictures and starring Rex Bell, Ruth Mix, and Buzz Barton,...
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Sgt. Luke
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1935
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Based on a Peter B. Kyne short story, The Final Assignment (which was also the film's alternate title), Fighting Coward...
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1935
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In his second of 18 B-Westerns for poverty row company Reliable Pictures, strapping Tom Tyler comes to the aid of a Mexican...
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1935
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While on a train taking them to prison, a convicted killer and a safecracker manage to engineer their escape. They show up...
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1935
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That deadly demon weed, marijuana, is the subject of this campy exploitation film from the mid-'30s. It is set in a small...
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1935
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Filmed simultaneously with the earlier release No Man's Range (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the diminutive hero as...
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1935
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John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired...
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1935
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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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1935
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Filmed simultaneously with Alias John Law, this rather complicated Western from low-budget Supreme Pictures featured wiry Bob...
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1935
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Definitely the most expensive-looking of John Wayne's "Lone Star" westerns, The Star Packer casts "the Duke" as U.S. marshal...
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Mason
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1934
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1934
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In perhaps the most haunting opening of any B-Western, Randy Rides Alone has John Wayne enter a deserted saloon filled with...
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1934
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The third entry in John Wayne's superior Lone Star series for producer Paul Malvern, The Lucky Texan features Wayne as Jerry...
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1934
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The 1934 B western Tombstone Terror could also have been titled All in the Family. Its star is Bob Steele, and its director...
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1934
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After helping prevent a bank robbery, young drifter John Weston (John Wayne) is assigned by Marshal Higgins (George "Gabby"...
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1934
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John Wayne attempts to locate Shirley Jean Rickert's wayward father in this low-budget Western from his days with Monogram....
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1934
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Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...
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1934
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John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for...
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1934
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In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien...
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1934
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The Galloping Romeo is Bob Steele, a wandering cowboy who's had incredibly bad luck with women. After several romantic...
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1933
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So unknown was John Wayne in 1934 that the Variety review of the "B"-western Sagebrush Trail fails to list Wayne in the cast!...
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1933
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A pet monkey saves the day in this otherwise unusually adult Bob Steele Western. The bantam-weight Steele plays Nick, aka...
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1933
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In this western, a hero is arrested and tossed in the pokey. He and a renowned mail thief escape together. It is soon...
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1933
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In the first of his 16 Westerns for Monogram, John Wayne plays Singin' Sandy Saunders, a drifter who witnesses what he at...
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1933
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Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele took to the air in this his second-to-last Western for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World...
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1932
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Filmed on glorious locations at the foot of California's Mount Whitney by ace cinematographer Archie Stout, this...
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1932
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The last of Bob Steele's six Westerns of Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide, Son of Oklahoma was directed by the...
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1932
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Cowboy star Bill Cody trades his Stetson and chaps for the red uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Mason of the...
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1932
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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A young man rebels against his brutal foster-father in this low-budget Western directed by Robert North Bradbury. Bradbury's...
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1932
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Filmed in the desert near Lake Elsinore and Lake Hemet, CA, and in the San Jacinto Mountains, The Man From Hell's Edges was...
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1932
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Though not quite as good as his previous The Montana Kid, Bill Cody's 1931 western Dugan of the Bad Lands was still better...
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Lang
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1931
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