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1960
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A small western town in the 1880s has been beset by a series of mysterious deaths, mostly involving young women, with no...
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1959
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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1959
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Only one of three films directed by screenwriter Charles Lederer, known for movies as disparate as The Thing (1951) and...
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1959
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In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying...
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1958
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This forgettable piece of 1950s sleaze stars Cleo Moore as a voluptuous blonde who becomes a successful commercial...
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1956
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The Mole People holds the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the Universal-International horror films. John Agar...
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1956
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Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town...
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1956
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For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film...
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1955
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A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county...
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1955
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard...
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1954
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Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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By virtue of the popularity of his TV series The Range Rider, Jack (later Jock) Mahoney is afforded almost as much screen...
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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Nineteenth-century saloon gal Roxy McClanahan (Yvonne DeCarlo) manages to inveigle herself into the uppermost rungs of polite...
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1952
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In this boxing drama, a deaf-mute prizefighter whose career is on the rise falls in love with a gold digging singer who only...
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1952
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Gene Autry plays a cattle buyer in the better-than-average formula western Barbed Wire. Investigating a paucity of fresh...
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1952
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Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young)...
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1952
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In his final Durango Kid Western (and final film appearance), Charles Starrett once again played an avenger named Steve,...
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1952
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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1951
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1951
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Produced and distributed by legendary road-show entrepreneur Kroger Babb, One Too Many details the tragedy of alcoholism....
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1950
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Who is The Phantom Ruler? That's the question posed by the 12-part Republic serial The Invisible Monster. Using four illegal...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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1950
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The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and...
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1950
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Plot number 6259A -- mistaken identity -- is trotted out for the Republic sagebrusher Powder River Rustlers....
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1949
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1949
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To stop a madman from blowing up New York City, a researcher dons a flying suit and prepares for battle in this serial, later...
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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By the time Law of the West came out in 1949, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown westerns were beginning to all look alike. Here as...
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1949
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In this suspenseful espionage actioner, the US radar defense system is about to be breached by enemy saboteurs and now only...
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1949
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This action adventure centers on the attempts of the courageous Canadian cops to stop crooks from finding a fabulous hidden...
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1948
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The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker)...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Whirlwind Raiders differs from the usual run of Charles Starrett westerns only in the fact that it wasn't directed by the...
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1948
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PRC/Eagle-Lion's Eddie Dean western series came to an end with The Tioga Kid. Dean plays a dual role, as an upright Texas...
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1948
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Eddie Dean and sidekick Roscoe Ates come to the aid of a young rancher in this low-budget singing Western from PRC....
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Al Quillan
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1948
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A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to...
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1948
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Gene Autry's equine sidekick Champion takes the center stage in western drama, based on a story by fellow sagebrush star Ken...
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1948
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In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Arguably Eddie Dean's best Western -- and certainly the balladeer's most unusual -- The Hawk of Powder River features busy...
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Cochrane
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1948
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When scientific mastermind Jack Armstrong is kidnapped by a devious fiend determined to discover the secrets of atom-powered...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here:...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Clayton Moore stars as Jesse James in this Western serial, in which the notorious outlaw attempts to leave behind the...
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1947
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Based on an adventure feature in Action Comics, this 15 chapter serial starred the erstwhile Dick Tracy, Ralph Byrd, as the...
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1947
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At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters....
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Foster
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1947
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Although benefitting from the "Zorro" trademark, the title character of this Western serial is not the direct offspring of...
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1947
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Adventures of Don Coyote is the third of five "streamliners", a group of under-an-hour features made by Mary Pickford and...
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1947
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In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This...
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1947
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Steve King stars in this serial as a forest ranger who must prevent a mad scientist from discovering a buried treasure. ~...
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1946
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Filmed (in 16 mm) at Big Bear Lake, CA, and directed by stuntmen Richard Talmadge and Harvey Parry, this minor comedy-drama...
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Gerald
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1946
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1946
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In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister...
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1946
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Republic Pictures attempted to mix the popular Zorro sub-genre with a modern crime story in this action serial directed by...
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1946
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That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective...
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1946
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In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that he killed his opponent....
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1946
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Columbia Pictures, as usual, cast a lesser-known player -- in this case the handsome but rather stolid Robert Lowery -- in...
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1945
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Just when it didn't seem possible that Columbia had any room left for another B-picture series, along came The Adventures of...
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1945
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Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack...
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1945
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A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada...
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1945
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The most obvious discrepancies concerning this otherwise well-remembered cliffhanger from genre specialist Republic Pictures...
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1944
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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1944
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Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all...
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1943
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In this flag-waving adventure, the Masked Marvel helps keep the world safe for capitalism by taking on the evil Japanese...
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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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Some clever directorial touches by veteran Elmer Clifton help lift Days of Old Cheyenne from the B-western norm. Don "Red"...
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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger...
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1943
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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Stunts
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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1940
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Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures....
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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A fearless young pilot helps turn around the lives of some young punks in this exciting episode of the "Tailspin Tommy" trio...
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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1939
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Gene Autry goes up against a crooked oil company in this delightful music Western restored in 2001 by Gene Autry...
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1939
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With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal....
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1939
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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1938
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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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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In this musical comedy, a struggling songwriter fakes a letter of admittance into the apartment of a rich composer. It is...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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Supporting actor Scott Kolk was elevated to playing the title role in this Graustarkian spy thriller, serialized in 12...
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1937
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The first of four Tom Keene westerns for Monogram release, God's Country and the Man is fine, virile stuff in the old...
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1937
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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1936
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Although billed fourth, Veteran silent screen actor Franklyn Farnum is the real star of this ultra low-budget Western from...
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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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1935
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1935
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A young John Wayne is charged with building a road into the title valley in this routine Western from Monogram. The building...
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1935
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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1935
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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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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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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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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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