Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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1954
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Bait starts out with a cunning pre-credits sequence, wherein a dapper, erudite gentlemen (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), after...
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Foley
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1954
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A real "must see" for devotees of 1950s pop culture, Ring of Fear boasts a script co-written by character actor Paul Fix and...
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1954
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists' off-and-on "Northwest Mountie" series. Taking time off from...
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1953
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After a number of overproduced, overlong western "specials," Wild Bill Elliot went back to basics with a series of...
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Grimer
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1953
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Samuel Fuller scarcely used Dwight Taylor's source material, a languid courtroom romance, in crafting this pugnacious...
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1953
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In this bizarre western, two prospectors strike it rich and set out across Death Valley with their riches. They are chased by...
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Leatherface
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1952
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1952
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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1952
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1952
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Sky Full of Moon gets under way when Vegas gambling-joint owner Al (Keenan Wynn) rescues rodeo rider Harley Williams...
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Judy Canova continues to bring home the box-office bacon for Republic Pictures in Oklahoma Annie. Judy plays Judy, Queen of...
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Paydirt
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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1951
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Produced by Jack Schwarz on behalf of Eagle Lion Studios, Badman's Gold was ultimately released through United Artists....
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1951
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Though Eagle Lion's "Red Ryder" westerns were not as well received as the earlier entries from Republic, they still managed...
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Buckskin
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1950
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In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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1950
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Jim Bannon's final "Red Ryder" western was the Cinecolor effort Cowboy and the Prizefighter. Aiding and abetting the...
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Buckskin
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1950
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Though RKO Radio Pictures was, in 1951, still faithful to the concept of "B" westerns starring Tim Holt, the studio was more...
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1950
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Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little...
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Buckskin
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1949
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Filmed in "glorious" Cinecolor by Eagle-Lion, this was the first of four "Red Ryder" westerns starring Jim Bannon in the...
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Buckskin
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1949
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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1949
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Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars...
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1948
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Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always made it seem as if it was...
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1948
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Western Heritage was Tim Holt's first western vehicle for the 1947-48 season, discounting his previous appearances in RKO...
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1948
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1948
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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1947
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Rustlers of Devil's Canyon was one of seven "Red Ryder" westerns with Allan Lane in the lead. Returning from the...
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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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Bear Trap
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1947
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The third of western hero James Warren's trio of RKO Radio vehicles, Code of the West was like its predecessors based on a...
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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Red Ryder and his comical sidekick take on a new batch of bad-guys in this western, the 16th in the Red Ryder series. This...
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1946
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The Durango Kid rides again in Columbia's Landrush. As ever, the masked do-gooder, alias Steve Harmon, is played by...
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Jake Parker
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1946
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A grizzled old prospector literally stumbles over General Santa Ana's missing payroll treasure in this average "Durango Kid"...
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1946
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An exemplary "Red Ryder" Western, Stagecoach to Denver features Red (Allan Lane), his aunt, the Duchess (Martha Wentworth),...
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1946
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Filmed in two-toned Cinecolor, Romance of the West was the second of PRC's western vehicles for singing cowboy Eddie Dean....
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1946
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This fast-paced western, geared entirely to the small-fry, was the first in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder"...
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1946
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In this his second starring Western, Republic Pictures' laconic singing cowboy Monte Hale played, of all things, a...
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Locoweed
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1946
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The Caravan Trail stars PRC Pictures' resident singing cowboy Eddie Dean. This time around, wagonmaster Dean is appointed...
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Cherokee
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1946
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A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that...
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Elmer
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1945
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After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid...
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1945
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Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful...
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1945
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John -- "Our Old Pals," as they were billed -- get in trouble with a murderous Charles King...
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1945
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Statehood for Wyoming became the weighty focal point in this very low-budget music Western from poverty row company PRC,...
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Uncle Ezra
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1945
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In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an...
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1945
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The "urban" nature of the title notwithstanding, Gangster's Den is another PRC Studios B-western. Buster Crabbe and...
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1945
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Arthur Lake took time off from his Blondie duties at Columbia to star in Republic's The Big Show-Off. Lake plays an obnoxious...
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1945
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Columbia Pictures "borrowed" a few pages from Damon Runyon when crafting this entry in the Durango Kid B-Western series. When...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to...
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1945
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In this western, a rancher turns his property into a dude ranch for soldiers after he is drafted. Featured upon this ranch...
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1944
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In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face...
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1944
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Jim Lacy (Robert Mitchum), Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), and Dusty (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) are three cowpokes working...
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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1944
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One thing is certain in Frontier Outlaws. Despite evidence to the contrary, Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones...
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1944
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With his performance in the offbeat sagebrusher The Laramie Trail, Bob Livingston makes his final appearance in a Republic...
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Barfoot
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1944
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In this patriotic two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges are labeled 4-F by the draft board, aiding the war effort instead by...
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1944
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In this musical, an unemployed swing-band singer cannot hook up with another group and so becomes a switchboard operator at a...
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1944
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Western star Don "Red" Barry essays a dual role in Republic's Outlaws of Santa Fe. Actually, the two "characters" are one:...
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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Bluebeard casts the saturnine John Carradine as Gaston, a popular painter in 19th century Paris. Unbeknownst to the...
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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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Tombstone Boggs
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1943
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Carson City Cyclone stars Don "Red" Barry as a frontier lawyer with the deceptively mild-mannered monicker of Gilbert Phalen....
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Tombstone
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1943
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In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film. The story concerns some women living in...
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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Having functioned as Alvin J. Neitz's assistant director in the first two "Trail Blazers" Westerns, Monogram...
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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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Pop Tanner
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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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1943
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This lightning-paced Republic western stars Don "Red" Barry as lawman Tennessee Colby. When sinister forces try to prevent a...
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Fiddlefoot
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1943
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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Eagle Eye
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1943
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...
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1942
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City of Silent Men comes so close to being a "model" "B" picture that it's a downright shame it just misses the mark. The...
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1942
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A crime lord with the ability to mesmerize and manipulate others forces an old ex-convict to do his evil bidding. When the...
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1942
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Crooked mail clerk Charles Haney (Emmet Lynn), coveting his boss' stagecoach line, tips off a gang of outlaws whenever a new...
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Charles Haney
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1942
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There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this...
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1942
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Jackpot McGraw
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1942
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Universal contractee Irene Hervey, generally required to stand by the sidelines while the leading men did all the acting, was...
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are...
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1942
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In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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Tim Holt and sidekicks Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn join an outlaw gang in this RKO Western filmed on-location at Victorville,...
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Whopper
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1941
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Tim Holt is mistaken for a notorious gunslinger in this average Western, which RKO filmed at Kanab, UT, in tandem with the...
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Whopper
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1941
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Not quite a B western but certainly no "A", Road Agent is kept alive by the boisterous byplay of stars Dick Foran,...
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1941
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Tim Holt plays a rancher named Drummond who runs up against a gang of crooked frontier land agents. When Drummond complains...
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Whopper
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1941
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Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the...
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1940
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1940
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In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down...
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1940
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Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach...
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1938
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