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1987
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In this Road Warrior clone, an aging trucker spends his retirement mining an old cobalt mine with the assistance of his...
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Charlie Morrison
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1986
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1986
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While visiting her cousin Abby (Lynn Redgrave) at lavish Langley Manor in the deep South, Jessica is among those present when...
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1984
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Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly...
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1983
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As in the real-life story which spawned it, Rare Breed deals with the kidnapping of a racehorse and the quest of its loving...
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Jess Cutler
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1981
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In this version of the Mark Twain classic, Huck dodges the drudgery of an eastern boys school by faking his own drowning....
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1981
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The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the...
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1979
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Forrest Tucker guest stars as Edsel Jarvis Castleberry, the long-absent father of hardbitten waitress Flo (Polly Holliday)....
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1979
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This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This...
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1978
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This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to...
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1977
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The cast of the sitcom F-Troop stars in this comic western about the people of St. Joseph, Missouri and their exasperation...
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1977
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Rated R for violence, this is another of the promises broken to us by the movie industry. When they promise that we won't...
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Grandpa Pusser
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1977
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Forrest Tucker guest stars as Paul Zachary, a jaded, world-weary NYPD detective. Zachary's obsessive devotion to his work has...
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1976
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1975
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1975
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Walnut Grove's annual Founder's Day celebration brings a host of visitors to compete in a wide variety of contests. As the...
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1975
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Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering...
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J.J. McCulloch
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1975
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Glenn Ford is Jarrett, a former boxer with an artistic streak. He becomes a private detective, specializing in cases that...
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1973
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In this sports drama, a small college, desperate for a grid iron win, hires an ultra tough new coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1972
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The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The...
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1972
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First telecast January 5, 1971, Alias Smith and Jones was the pilot for the popular TV series of the same name. This genial...
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1971
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Native American actor Chief Dan George, who had catapulted to stardom in the 1971 theatrical feature Little Big Man, appears...
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Frank Ryan
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1971
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In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra...
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1971
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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Lawrence Murphy
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1970
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Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local...
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Mountain Phil
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1970
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Forrest Tucker guest stars as veteran police officer Milt Stein (Forrest Tucker), who takes the law into his own hands to nab...
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1970
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In this drama a young urban boy must cope with his disappointment after he discovers that his uncle's ranch is nothing but a...
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1968
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Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell."...
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Trim Houlihan
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1968
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The second season of F Troop is filmed in color instead of black-and-white, and the ballad and action montage which opened...
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Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke
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1966
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Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of...
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1966
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Forrest Tucker plays a dual role in this episode as both Sgt. O'Rourke and O'Rourke's Irish-born father. Arriving in Fort...
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1966
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Each of the first-season episodes of the riotous Western sitcom F Troop opened with a stirring balled, sung by a male chorus,...
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Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke
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1965
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1965
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Counterplot is a standard murder melodrama in which a man mistakenly believes he has killed someone. Brock (Forrest Tucker)...
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Brock
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1959
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In this western, the battle between ranchers and farmers provides the background for a battle between two disparate...
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John Brazos
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1958
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The Trollenberg Terror, authored by Peter Key and directed by Quentin Lawrence, started life on British television as a...
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Alan Brooks
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1958
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At a laboratory outside of a small village in the south of England, physicist Dr. Laird (Alec Mango), assisted by American...
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Gil Graham
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1958
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Republic Studios' B pictures were generally more exciting than their As, as was certainly the case with Girl in the Woods....
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Steve Cory
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1958
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Beauregard Burnside
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1958
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1958
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In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during...
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McGurney
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1958
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Break in the Circle is one of several late-1950s British films given American distribution by 20th Century-Fox....
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Skip Morgan
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1957
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In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a...
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Carl Sheriff
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1957
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This drama is another adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's popular novel that follows the exploits of a white scout who was...
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Harry Marsh
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1957
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Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders...
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Cable
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1957
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Dr. Tom Friend
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1957
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Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The...
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Frank Townsend
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1956
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1955
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Forrest Tucker stars in this yeoman Republic actioner. A short-term railroad freight line is threatened with extinction by a...
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Mike Peters
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1955
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Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns....
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Frank Reno
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1955
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This jerry-built Allied Artists musical is also known as Showtime, Fresh From Paris. The film's plot is constructed around a...
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Dan Bradley
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1955
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Director Harold D. Schuster, heretofore more at home with "outdoor" fare, does a nice job with the film noir trappings of...
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Dutch Becker
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1955
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production....
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Morgan
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1955
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Comparatively little known today, Republic's Laughing Anne was a Late Late Show perennial in the early 1960s. One of several...
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Jem Farrell
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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John Ives
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1954
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Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert...
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1954
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Brian Culver
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1953
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Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it...
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Sam Danfelser
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1953
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The action in this loose adaptation of a popular 1925 silent tells the galloping (and largely untrue) tale if the formation...
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Wild Bill Hickok
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1953
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In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines. ~...
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Capt. Bill Eaton
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1953
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Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure...
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Dan McGuire
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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Mac
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1952
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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Charley Pignatalli
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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Donavan
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1952
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The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and...
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Bill Rourk
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1951
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Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time...
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Lt. Col. Unger
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1951
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit served up another winner with the Technicolor actioner Crosswinds. Set in New Guinea, the film...
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Jumbo Johnson
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1951
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Maj. Tom West
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1951
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Lt. Tom Blaine
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1951
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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Sgt. O'Hara
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1951
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Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of...
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Reed Loomis
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1950
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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Mike Prescott
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1950
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Tom Tanner
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1950
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A frequent cable-TV attraction since lapsing into public domain in 1976, The Big Cat is an excellent outdoor drama,...
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Gil Hawks
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1949
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Bucky McLean
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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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Jim Plummer
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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Sheriff Henry McIntyre
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1949
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From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne),...
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Pfc. Al Thomas
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1949
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In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a...
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"Tex" Bennett
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1948
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Whit Lacey
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1948
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Stagecoach driver Bishop needs to capture the infamous bandit known as "The Monk" for his hooded attire. If Bishop can't...
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1948
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Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a...
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1948
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Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based....
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1947
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The "lady" is country lass Janie Clark (Jinx Falkenberg) in this peppy Columbia musical. Upon inheriting several million...
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Bart Manners
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1946
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The oft-used title The Man Who Dared was applied to an oft-filmed movie plotline in 1946. George Macready, in a respite from...
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1946
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Whenever budget-conscious Columbia laid out good money for Technicolor in the 1940s, it was usually for a musical or an "A"...
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1946
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In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra...
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1946
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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Lem Forrester
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1946
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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Cpl. Fenwick Lonkowski
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1946
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Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally...
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1942
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Though released before Atlantic Convoy, Columbia's Parachute Nurse didn't make it to New York until after Convoy had already...
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1942
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The first of Columbia's "B" wartime melodramas for their Summer 1942 schedule was the largely speculative Submarine Raider....
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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Geoffrey Midford
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1942
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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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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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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Originally titled Emergency Landing, PRC's Robot Pilot affords an early leading-man opportunity to Forrest Tucker. He plays a...
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Jerry
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1941
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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Wade Harper
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1940
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