Grandfather Jackson (Raymond Hatton) has sewn his life savings into the lining of an old coat. His grandson Bobby (Stephen...
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1957
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Two years into Gunsmoke, James Arness took time out of his busy schedule to star in the medium-budget western Arizona...
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1957
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Drugs are the focus of the exploitation film set in the Los Angeles harbor. The plot centers around a villain's evil scheme...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) set their sights on a forger who has been passing phony payroll checks all over...
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1956
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1956
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1956
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This 62-minute quickie takes place during a single 12-hour shift at Los Angeles' Emergency Hospital. In anticipation of such...
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1956
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The talented David Wayne is afforded a rare movie starring role in Allied Artists' The Naked Hills. Wayne plays prospector...
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1956
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Fury at Gunsight Pass is a brief, to-the-point "budget" western, well cast and excitingly staged. David Brian stars as bank...
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1956
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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Evil traders and superstitious natives in India complicate the research efforts of an American doctor. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder...
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1953
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In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western...
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Buck Prescott
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1951
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Texans Never Cry but they sure do sing a lot in this Gene Autry western. Cast as a Texas Ranger, Autry is trying to get the...
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1951
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Rogue River stars Rory Calhoun as Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge (Frank Fenton). A...
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Joe Dandridge
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1951
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An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in...
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1951
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The sexual dysfunction of a married couple provides the basis of this thought-provoking drama that was originally released...
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1950
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Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey...
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1950
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According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show,...
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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1950
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Once more, Charles Starrett hits the trail as the masked do-gooder known as The Durango Kid in Streets of Ghost Town. Also...
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1950
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Sideshow was the last starring effort of Don McGuire, who would soon abandon acting in favor of writing, producing and...
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1950
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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1950
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Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka,...
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1949
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Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino...
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police,...
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1949
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1949
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip stars Republic horse-opera hero Monte Hale. This time, Steve Howard (Hale) comes to the aid of Joe...
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1949
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1949
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In this western, a cowpoke is trotting towards Wyoming in hopes of buying a ranch when he is arrested for a murder he did...
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1948
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1948
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Chronic gambler Ellen Crane (Paulette Goddard) indulges in games of chance to compensate for the loss of her boyfriend during...
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1948
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1948
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development...
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1948
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S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective is reduced to an ordinary "hard boiled" gumshoe in this inexpensive mystery. Philo Vance...
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1947
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Birch
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1947
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In this musical, the fourth entry in a five-film series, three singers come together to form a nightclub act. Their...
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Mr. Bonardi
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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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This adventure, set upon the mighty Mississippi, features two former Tarzans. One of them is a river-boat captain who was...
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1946
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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Horatio Vedder
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1946
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Mr. Phillips
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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1945
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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1944
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At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case...
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1944
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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1944
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1944
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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1944
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In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on...
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1944
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1943
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No relation to the 1935 Lon Chaney Jr. vehicle of the same name, Republic's A Scream in the Dark is based on...
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1943
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1943
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Cult-favorite director Edgar G. Ulmer has quite a disparate cast to work with in Isle of Forgotten Sins. The story is...
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Burke
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1943
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1943
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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1942
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