In this comedy, two small-time con men steal an honest ex-convict's car and use it to rob a bank. They then hide the loot in...
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1962
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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1962
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by a mortally woman named Mrs. Kilmer (Lillian Bronson), who wants to learn the whereabouts...
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1960
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In this episode of The Rifleman, Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) finds himself in the odd position of having to defend an old...
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1959
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Juliet Harper (Miranda Jones, a young girl on the verge of womanhood, is the central figure in deadly feud involving her...
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1959
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This is the very last entry in the long-running Bowery Boys saga. This time the gang gets involved with English diamond...
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1958
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Just before dropping dead, grizzled old prospector Leadhead Kane (Lita Milan) wills half the ownership of his valuable silver...
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1958
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In this reworking of the earlier episode "The Jeweled Gun", attractive widow Margaret Ross (Catherine McLeod) asks Bret...
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1958
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The only reason for the existence of the colorful musical 3DMardi Gras3D is the star power of Pat Boone. The plot is set in...
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1958
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In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John...
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1958
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Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde...
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1958
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It's "Pygmalion" on the frontier in this episode scripted by future Star Trek maven Gene Roddenberry. Paladin (Richard Boone)...
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1958
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Crooked "sportsman" Billy Joe Kane (Lawrence Dobkin) is promoting a race in the Mojave desert, in which he is wagering that...
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1957
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After winning a poker game, Bret (James Garner) looks forward to claiming his prize, an "Arabian mount." But he is less than...
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1957
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A Marine drill instructor (d.i. for short), Sgt. Jim Moore (Jack Webb) is responsible for the rigorous training of his...
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1957
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Grizzled sodbuster Oliver Stang (Earle Hodgins) arrives in Dodge City with his dimwitted nephew Viney (Paul Wexler), who...
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1957
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series Sach sells his soul to the Devil so he can atone for spending a...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when landlady Selma Bruttig (Isabelle Dwan) reports the...
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1957
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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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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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1956
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Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling...
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1956
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by...
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1954
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The Fortyniners stars Wild Bill Elliot as California-based federal agent Sam Nelson. While others pan for gold, Sam searches...
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1954
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Randolph Scott is as strong and silent as ever in Thunder Over the Plains. The scene is Texas, in the years just following...
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1953
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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1953
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Within its own modest limits, The Great Jesse James Raid is a well-crafted western. Willard Parker plays Jesse James, who...
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1953
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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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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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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller (I. Stanford Jolley), a greedy express agent and...
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1951
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1951
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of...
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1950
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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1950
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Raymond Walburn stars as...
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1949
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In the western Sheriff of Wichita, an unjustly imprisoned Army Lieutenant searches for the actual perpetrators of a robbery...
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1949
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Yakima Canutt was the man in the director's chair for Republic's...
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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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Doc Richards
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1948
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Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The...
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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1948
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This comedy focuses on a nuclear scientist who believes that his dead brother has been reincarnated as a dog. ~ Rovi...
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1948
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Chronic gambler Ellen Crane (Paulette Goddard) indulges in games of chance to compensate for the loss of her boyfriend during...
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1948
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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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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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1947
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Actually it's Rin Tin Tin III, grandson of the legendary silent-movie canine star. Filmed in less than glorious Vitacolor,...
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1947
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The fifth of seven "Red Ryder" westerns starring Allan Lane, Oregon Trail Scouts recounts how Red met his young sidekick,...
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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In this drama, a print shop owner suffers a blow to the head and wakes up a mind-reader. Meanwhile the president of a...
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1947
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Reading-of-the-will melodramatics substitute for the usual B-Western shootin' and fightin' in this late entry in the long...
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1947
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There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series. Or, rather, there is...
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1947
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In this musical drama, loosely based on a popular radio program, a country performer and his band aspire to fame and fortune...
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1947
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Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) has begun seeing a psychiatrist to treat her overwhelming guilt. It seems that Marise was...
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1947
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A much celebrated bout between legendary prize-fighters Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons becomes a hot issue in the Nevada...
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1946
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In this western, a tuneful saddletramp is appointed sheriff of Rawhide and begins rounding up three troublesome brothers. ~...
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1946
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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1946
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After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first...
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1946
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A Hollywood movie company descends on the Ozarks in this pleasant, if low-budget, musical from PRC undoubtedly inspired by...
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1946
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There's no "valley" in Valley of the Zombies, and only one "zombie," played with relish by Ian Keith. At large in a great...
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1946
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band tries to take over the reins of a stagecoach line. The outlaw's gal is a...
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1946
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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1946
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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1945
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In this western, Red Ryder and his young sidekick Little Beaver help prevent an impressionable duchess from being duped by a...
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1945
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In this western, a wagonmaster stops a greedy newspaper editor from buying up an entire territory. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1945
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Republic Pictures' reigning Bad Guy, Roy Barcroft, was at it again in this standard Allan Lane Western, this time playing Ben...
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1945
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1945
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1944
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In this convoluted western, a sickly cowboy sidekick gets into a terrible fix when he is mistaken for a notorious bank...
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1944
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"Wild Bill" Elliott heads the all-star (by B-flick standards, at any rate) western Hidden Valley Outlaws. Elliott does battle...
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1944
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In this western, the good-guys keep the bad-guys from taking over the water-rights of a group of trail drivers in the Santa...
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1944
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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1944
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There's oil in them thar' hills and an unscrupulous oil company scout attempts to drive the settlers off their newly valuable...
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Happy Jack
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1944
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A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to...
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1943
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The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy...
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his...
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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1943
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A young Bar 20 cowboy is killed in this fine Hopalong Cassidy Western directed by the efficient George Archainbaud. Having...
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1943
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running...
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1943
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Cattlemen Robert Paige and Noah Beery Jr. run up against a shady syndicate, set up to squash the dealing between independent...
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1943
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1943
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The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at...
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Dusty Gardner, spokesmen for a group of hard-working cattlemen. As Gardner and his compatriots...
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1943
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1943
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The Ritz Bros' third low-budget musical for Universal was the pointlessly titled Hi'ya, Chum! In this 61-minute timekiller,...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land...
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1943
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Man from Rio Grande stars Don "Red" Barry as movie cowboy star Lee Grant. The plot finds Grant coming to the rescue of...
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1943
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In this western, a pair of ranchers tire of being oppressed by the excessive taxation an avaricious crook in possession of a...
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1943
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Undercover Man was the first of the "Hopalong Cassidy" series to be released by United Artists rather than Paramount. William...
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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1942
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1942
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In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob...
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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1942
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The Bashful Bachelor was the second of six 1940s B films inspired by the popular radio series Lum 'N' Abner. The two...
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1942
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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An average Tim Holt oater from RKO, Riding the Wind is set in the New Mexico desert where the ranchers are at the mercy of...
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1941
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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In this western, a town finds itself under the tyrannical control of a shady sheriff. He is usurped by an honest outside...
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1941
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Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title...
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1941
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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1941
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1941
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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1940
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The Sagebrush Family Trails West was the first attempt by Producer's Distributing Corporation (later known as PRC Pictures)...
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"Doc" Sawyer
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1940
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In emulation of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series, Monogram launched its own three-star sagebrush property, "The...
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Uncle Rolf
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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1940
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In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that...
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1940
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With Under Texas Skies, Republic's Three Mesquiteers underwent a slight change of personnel. Robert Livingston remained as...
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1940
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Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a...
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1940
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Hey, gang! Let's put on a swell show and call it Strike Up the Band! Yes, it's the irrepressible Mickey Rooney, teamed up...
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1940
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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1940
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Doc Bates
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1940
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1939
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Zany radio comedian Joe Penner delivers one of his best (and most believable) screen performances in the Runyonesque comedy...
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1939
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Home on the Prairie finds Texas ranger Gene Autry trying to halt an anthrax epidemic. The villains are cattlemen Walter...
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1939
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Carnival promoter Fixer Dugan (Lee Tracy) is so named because of his ability to mollify angry customers and process-serving...
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1939
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1939
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Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out...
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1938
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In this episode of the western series, the Mesquitters try to stop a ring of silk thieves while dealing with a shady...
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Dr. Irving
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1938
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The seventh of thirteen singing Westerns to star former opera baritone Fred Scott, The Ranger's Roundup was also the first of...
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1938
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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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Sometimes mistakenly referred to as Bride of the West, this superior "Hopalong Cassidy" entry packs every conceivable...
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Sheriff Tom Martin
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1938
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Unusually adult in tone, this excellent Hopalong Cassidy Western features Gwen Gaze as Lorna Drake, an aristocratic British...
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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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1938
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Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage...
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1938
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Barefoot Boy is a throwback to the sort of bucolic family fare in which Monogram Pictures specialized in the early 1930s....
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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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The Last Stand is among the better Bob Baker westerns, with the star getting to show off his athletic prowess as well as his...
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Thorn
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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No, we don't get to see Johnny Mack Brown's mother in labor in A Lawman is Born. Brown is "born" as a star packer when he's...
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the less-popular but arguably more talented brother of cowboy star Ken Maynard, heads the cast of Roaring Six...
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1937
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The "Hopalong Cassidy" series closed out 1937 with its 14th entry, Texas Trail. No surprises in the cast: William Boyd is...
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1937
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In this western, a tough hombre begins stalking his brother's killer. He shows up during a range war and because he is a...
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Buck Andrews
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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1937
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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1937
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Seasoned newsreel cameraman Bob Adams (John Wayne) is assigned to cover the rebellion in the fictional Arab country of...
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1937
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and directed (with action expert B. Reeves Eason) this somewhat inconsistent Western about a ranger...
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Jack Dunn
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1937
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Produced by Greek-born Gower Gulch "tycoon" Anthony J. Xydias, this film was a remake, with plenty of stock footage, of...
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Stephen Austin
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1937
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Hills of Old Wyoming was the 10th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" series, and at 79 minutes one of the longest of the batch...
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1937
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This is one of Buck Jones' most unusual sound films. Cowboy Buck Benson (Jones) is incredulous to find that his father, M.H....
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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The Three Mesquiteers are back for more action in this well-photographed Republic western. This time, heroes Stoney Brooke...
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1937
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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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Professor
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1937
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Smoke Tree Range represented another winning collaboration between cowboy hero Buck Jones and his favorite director...
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1937
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Guns and Guitars could have served as the title of any Gene Autry picture released in 1937. In this one, medicine-show...
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1936
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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Marshal
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1936
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Ghost Town Gold was the second entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. Ray "Crash" Corrigan and...
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1936
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In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them....
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1936
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Dick Tracy -- or rather his future portrayer Ralph Byrd -- found himself in the unfamiliar surroundings of the range in this...
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1936
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In this western, Gene Autry plays a cowboy with a heart as big as Texas who heads for the city to try to raise money so that...
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1936
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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1935
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Another of cowboy hero Bill Cody's low-grade horse operas for Spectrum Pictures, Cyclone Ranger casts the white-Stetsoned...
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Pancho Gonzales
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1935
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Written by genre specialist Oliver Drake, this overly complicated B-Western from Gower Gulch company Spectrum featured Bill...
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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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Dr. Carter
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1935
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Joe E. Brown plays a dual role in Circus Clown, as would-be circus entertainer Happy Howard and his rustic old father. When...
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1934
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