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Screen Story
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1950
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Produced 16 mm color stock by television personality Spade Cooley in 1947, The Silver Bandit was not released until April of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Produced, written, and directed by the veteran Elmer Clifton (here for obscure reasons billed Elmer S. Pond), Red Rock Outlaw...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Produced and directed by the veteran Oliver Drake and filmed at his ranch near Pearblossom, CA, this minor musical Western...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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The terrible consequences of perverting the legal system are spelled out in The Judge. In one of his rare starring roles,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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First love leads to unexpected responsibilities and difficult decisions in this well-crafted drama. Sally Kelton...
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Director
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1949
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Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Eddie Dean and his pal Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) are assigned by the U.S. marshal to safeguard the invaluable Mexican Lopez...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Produced in Kernville, California, this typical Jimmy Wakely singing Western from Monogram had the former radio troubadour...
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1947
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Screenwriter
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1946
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One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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In this western, Billy Carson must help out his bumbling side kick after he involves himself in a land scam. ~ Sandra...
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Screen Story
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1946
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One of several WW II-era "juvenile delinquent" dramas, Youth Aflame was filmed two years before its 1945 release, and frankly...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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The most thrilling aspect of the PRC oater Lightning Raiders is the film's title. Though Buster Crabbe earns top billing as...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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The penultimate entry in the Texas Rangers lineup, PRC's super-low-budget rival to Republic Pictures' Three Mesqueteers...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting. ~ Sandra...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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In this western, the residents of a town are terrorized by the presence of a mysterious ghost. The Texas Rangers investigate...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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Based on the comic book by the same name, the hero takes on a crazed scientist who creates deadly machines for his own...
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Director
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1944
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Replacing James Newell, country and western crooner Tex Ritter joins Dave "Tex" O'Brien and Guy Wilkerson in the last eight...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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In this western, a gang of evil cattle rustlers wreaks havoc upon a community of ranchers. Three Texas Rangers come to the...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Affable comic actor Chick Chandler hadn't had a film starring role in years when Seven Doors to Death was produced in 1944,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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No, the "Pinto Bandit" doesn't go around stealing beans. This is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" series, starring...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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Partners in most of the low-budget Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Ritter and Dave O'Brien are at loggerheads through the greater...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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In this western, the Texas Rangers ride out after "The Whispering Skull" an enigmatic killer who murders his victims in the...
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Director
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1944
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Teen-Age is another "exposé" film of the 1940s, cheaply made but widely distributed. In the guise of a warning against...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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The Texas Rangers ride again in the PRC oater Gunsmoke Mesa. As in earlier series entries, the rangers are played by Jim...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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An obscure entry in the musical Western cycle, Swing, Cowboy, Swing was produced by and starred country & western bandleader...
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Director
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1944
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In this western, the Texas Rangers take on a shyster who is trying to bilk a family of their money after he learns that an...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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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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Director
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1943
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In this western, the Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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In the first entry in PRC's Texas Ranger series, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson) are...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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In the second of PRC's ramshackle Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) is blamed for a murder actually...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Starring the engaging Donald Barry (nicknamed, for obvious reasons, "Red"), this average Republic Western was filmed...
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Director
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1943
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Director
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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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Screenwriter
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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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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Director
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1942
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Even those film buffs who derive pleasure from the output of poverty-row PRC Pictures are hard put to say anything nice about...
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Director
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1941
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When a young man is in trouble, his sister puts herself in danger to save him. ~ Rovi...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1941
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A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made...
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Director
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1941
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Although rather grandly dedicated to "the law officers of the Old West, who led the fight for law and order in the pioneer...
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Director
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1941
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Trail of the Silver Spurs was Monogram's first "Range Riders" entry for 1941. As in previous episodes, the three heroes are...
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Screen Story
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1941
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Hard Guy (British title: Professional Bride) stars singer Mary Healy (later of "Peter Lind Hayes and?" fame) as Julie, a...
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Director
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1941
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No sooner had the second of Monogram's "Range Riders" westerns hit the screens than the third entry, West of Pinto Basin, was...
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Screen Story
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1940
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Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand...
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Director
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1940
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This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north...
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Director
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1939
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Set on the eve of California's entry into the Union, this fact-based Western features Buck Jones as an undercover agent out...
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Director
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1938
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Old-timer Hobart Bosworth heads the cast of the independently produced Wolves of the Sea. Bosworth is cast as Captain Wolf...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Law of the Texan is another of the above-average Buck Jones westerns produced by Coronet Films for Columbia release. Jones...
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Director
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1938
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Produced by Coronet Productions and released by Columbia, The Stranger from Arizona represented a change of pace for cowboy...
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Director
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1938
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This 15-chapter Columbia serial is largely set on a remote Carribean island (which looks suspiciously like Catalina)....
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1938
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1938
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A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam...
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Director
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1937
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All expense was spared in bringing this sleazy "exposé" to the screen. It's all about Mrs. Miller (Martha Chapin), the...
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Director
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1937
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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1937
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1937
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This poverty-row epic stars William Bakewell as Bob, inventor of a futuristic motorboat engine. Bob's new device may be the...
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Director
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1937
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Roaring Speedboats is the TV title for the inexpensive 1937 indie Mile a Minute Love. William Bakewell stars as an inventor...
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Director
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...
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Director
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1936
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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Director
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1936
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Produced by poverty row organization Stage and Screen, this less-than-faithful serialized version of the historical battle...
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Director
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1936
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"Suggested" by the notorious trial of gangster Lucky Luciano, this typical low-budget sexploitation-melodrama came complete...
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Director
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1936
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Tarzan, "The Police Dog," stars in this ultra low-budget thriller from independent producer Bert Sternbach. The human leads,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director
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1935
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Directed by the veteran Elmer Clifton, Pals of the Range was yet another attempt at turning journeyman actor Rex Lease into a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1935
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Proof positive that Reliable Pictures' Skull and Crown was filmed several years before its 1938 New York premiere is the...
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Director
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1935
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Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1935
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Set up essentially to produce cheap westerns, low-budget Puritan Pictures occasionally ground out a contemporary actioner...
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1935
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Director, Screenwriter
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1935
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In this western, a family is threatened by poison pen letters. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1935
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Director
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1933
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In this comedy-mystery, an ex-vaudevillian becomes an amateur sleuth and begins helping the police locate an international...
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Director
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1932
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MGM contractee Dorothy Sebastian paid a brief visit to Tiffany-Stahl to star in this bit of South Seas exotica. Unable to pay...
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1929
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1928
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Some first-rate underwater photography distinguishes this otherwise flat film version of Jack London's A Raid on the Oyster...
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Director
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1928
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Long before Richard Harding Davis' "Gallegher" stories were serialized for television by Walt Disney, popular silent-screen...
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1928
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1928
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Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that...
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Director
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1927
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Although the title to this melodrama smacks of sensation, it actually refers to telephone operators who work the night shift....
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Director
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1924
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This video contains two abridged version films: America, in which a Boston patriot and the daughter of a Tory fall in love...
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1924
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This was the second time that William C. DeMille's stage play was brought to the screen (DeMille's younger brother, Cecil B....
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Director
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1924
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This comedy was based on the stage success by William Anthony McGuire and features several of the actors who appeared in it...
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Director
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1923
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This whaling drama is most famous as the screen debut of Clara Bow (Bow had actually made one previous film, Beyond the...
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Director, Producer
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1922
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Intolerance, D.W. Griffith's towering achievement interlocking four stories of intolerance throughout the ages, has been...
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1919
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The story to this farce comedy (one of several that starred Dorothy Gish with Elmer Clifton as director) was written by Harry...
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Director
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1919
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Dorothy Gish does a wonderfully spunky turn in this silent lampoon of early movie westerns. Feisty Nugget Nell (Gish) owns an...
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Director
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1919
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Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the...
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Director
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1919
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In her films, comedienne Dorothy Gish was always turning her surroundings upside down, and here she does the job to a...
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Director
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1919
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A flat bicycle tire causes Jane (Dorothy Gish), a drifter, to pause in a little village in Maine. She overhears an argument...
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Director
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1918
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After striking it rich in Alaska, Smith (Monroe Salisbury) is robbed of his gold by Amy (Betty Schade) and her partner (Sam...
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Director
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1918
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Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about...
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1918
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1918
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Randolph Shorb (Herbert Rawlinson) and his father have always been on the level when it comes to business. Their competitors,...
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Director
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1918
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No relation to the 1925 Rudolph Valentino picture of the same name, the 1918 The Eagle is essentially a sagebrush Robin Hood...
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1918
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1918
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The motivating factor of the Universal five-reeler Brace Up was the then-new science of Psychology -- or, as it was labelled...
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Director
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1918
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A group of homesteaders, led by Alan MacDonald (Monroe Salisbury), are being persecuted by cattle baron Saul Chadron (Alfred...
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Director
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1918
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In this completely implausible silent picture, Bessie Love plays Nina, a blind flower girl and Elmer Clifton is Jimmie, the...
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1917
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1917
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Since Herbert Rawlinson's fans craved action, Mr. Rawlinson was ever eager to please. In fact, there was so much action in...
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Director
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1917
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The heroine of High Speed is Susan (Fritzi Ridgeway, who wants to marry the man of her dreams rather than the wealthy bore of...
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Director
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1917
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Jack Mulhall, who had a knack for light comedy, was miscast in this crime drama. Two safe manufacturers, Moore (Hal Wilson)...
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1917
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1917
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Billy "Sky-High" Wardwell (Herbert Rawlinson) and his pal "Domino" Dominick (Frank McQuarrie) are veteran sideshow hucksters...
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Director
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1917
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When John Webster, a leader in high finance, dies, he leaves the Webster Trust Company to his daughter Janice (Dorothy Gish)....
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Director
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1917
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Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is...
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1916
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1916
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John Coburn (Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), who hails from a rural area, is elected senator and he comes to the big city with...
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1916
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The Little School Ma'am is Nan, portrayed by Dorothy Gish. A Southern gal, Nan heads westward to take charge of a classroom...
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1916
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In one of her autobiographies, Lillian Gish reprinted in toto the studio synopsis of the D.W. Griffith production The Lily...
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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Wallace Reid and Dorothy Gish were already screen favorites when they starred on this "Mutual Masterpicture." Dosia Dale...
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1915
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1914
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The talent line-up for this 6-reel melodrama was quite impressive by 1914 standards: It was produced and directed by its...
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1914
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1914
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