Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is...
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1958
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In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead...
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1958
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1957
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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1957
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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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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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1952
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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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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1952
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1952
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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1951
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Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom...
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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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Producer-director Edward L. Cahn's Prominent Pictures produced this low-budget thriller-noir which was then sold outright to...
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1950
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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1950
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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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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Eliot Ness may have gotten lots of publicity (especially long after the fact) for breaking the Capone mob, but as...
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1949
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1949
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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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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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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1946
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Gould's...
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1945
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The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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1945
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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Bill Elliot is back as Red Ryder in Cheyenne Wildcat. Also back are Ryder's perennial cohorts Little Beaver (Bobby Blake,...
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1944
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Not quite as exciting as it should be, Stardust on the Sage is still a serviceable Gene Autry vehicle. This time, Gene is...
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1942
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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After several years of mediocre westerns, cowboy star Tom Keene finally managed to find a winning formula in his 1941-42...
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1942
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1941
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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Rolling Caravans was one of four Columbia B-westerns designed to make a star out of utility actor Jack Luden. Harry Woods, a...
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1938
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Also known as People's Enemy, this is a low-budget surprise movie which depicts a convicted racketeer on his way across...
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1938
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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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Spike
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1938
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Romance of the Rockies is considered the best of Tom Keene's starring westerns for Monogram. Keene is cast against type as a...
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Stone
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1938
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1937
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Ranger Courage was part of Columbia's short-lived western series starring utility actor Bob Allen. Allen plays the ranger of...
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1937
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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1936
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) rescues a stranded schoolmarm (Muriel Evans) from a lecherous saloon owner (Onslow Stevens)...
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1936
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Unlike most low-budget B-Westerns, several of Hoot Gibson's vehicles from Diversion Pictures were based on a literary source,...
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1935
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1935
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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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Produced by Victor Adamson (aka Denver Dixon), directed by Alan James (aka Alvin J. Neitz), and written by Van Johnson (no,...
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Jones
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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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1935
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William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by...
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1935
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Louis Weiss (of Poverty Row's Weiss Bros.) produced this commonplace B-Western starring one of the lesser names of the genre,...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Filmed in two weeks at Red Rock Canyon and Lone Pine, California, Hop-Along Cassidy was the opener of one of the best -- and...
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1935
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Written (under the pseudonym of Jimmy Hawkey) and directed by Robert F. Hill, this very low-budget Western from poverty row...
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1934
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Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and...
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1934
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The first of seven Western featurettes produced by low-budget entrepreneur William Pizor and starring silent screen cowboy...
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1934
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According to legend, B-movie star Blanche Mehaffey valiantly but unsuccessfully attempted to keep her old potboilers out of...
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1934
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The sixth of seven Western "featurettes" produced by William Pizor, The Lone Rider was created to capitalize on Silver King,...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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1934
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Former silent teenage star Buzz Barton headlines this juvenile Western from low-rent Big 4 Film Corp. directed by the veteran...
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sheriff
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a cub reporter is puzzled when he is consistently scooped out of big crime stories by a rival. His...
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1932
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In a last desperate effort to stay afloat in an industry suffering from the Great Depression, John R. Freuler's tattered Big...
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1932
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The 1932 Tom Mix western talkie Texas Bad Man has much in common with the sombre silent efforts by Mix's former rival...
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1932
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1931
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"Suggested" by the book The West That Was by legendary showman William F. Cody, this 12 chapter Universal serial was merely...
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1931
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A remake of the silent When a Man Rides Alone (1919), this low-budget oater from the Big 4 Film Corp. stars Wally Wales as...
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Carlos Valdez
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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1931
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In this western, the Indians are chasing a cowboy whom they blame for a young woman's suicide. They believe the white guy...
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1931
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In this western adventure set in the Sonora Desert upon the border between Mexico and the US, a marshal is summoned to stop...
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1931
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Saucer-eyed silent-screen cowboy Jack Perrin and his magnificent horse, Starlight, star in this ramshackle early sound...
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1930
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In this drama, the children of a recently deceased firefighter are sent to an orphanage. Two other firefighters offered to...
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1930
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Tom Lassen
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1925
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In the more naive times of the 1920s (at least when it came to narcotics), drug store cowboys had nothing to do with drugs....
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1925
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Silent screen Western star Franklyn Farnum played a stagecoach agent in this inexpensive oater from Jesse J. Goldburg's...
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The Jero
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1924
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A hero, his horse, a girl, a villain, a moppet and a black sidekick were the main ingredients of this minor silent western...
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Jack Caldwell
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1924
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1924
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This low-budget Western starred Franklyn Farnum as the hero. Shorty Hamilton, usually the comic relief in Farnum's pictures,...
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1923
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1923
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1922
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More a prairie whodunit than a straight western, this minor silent melodrama starred the veteran Franklyn Farnum as a rancher...
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Wilder Armstrong
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1922
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Also known as Texas Angel Citizens, this minor silent Western from poverty row producer William M. Smith starred...
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1922
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Silent Western star Franklyn Farnum travels West to locate a missing girl in this comedy-oater directed by John Ford's older...
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Norman Russell
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1922
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Maverick Hollywood producer Phil Goldstone and director Alvin J. Neitz fashioned this minor silent Western starring...
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James Brown
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1922
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1922
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Lower-echelon cowboy star Franklyn Farnum played a "half-breed" in search of a hidden gold reserve in this independent silent...
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Maslun
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1921
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The rugged Franklyn Farnum stars in this tale of Northwest bootleggers. Two revenuers, Fitzgerald (Farnum) and Herrick (Bud...
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1921
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Film pioneer Colonel William N. Selig had watched his once-powerful organization, the Selig Polyscope Company, dissolve in...
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1921
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This Western, starring Franklyn Farnum, combined many different elements -- comedy-drama (with a bit more emphasis on the...
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1921
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This minor silent Western was one in a series of oaters produced independently by the founder of the pioneering Selig...
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Andy Green
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1921
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The founder of the pioneering movie organization Selig Polyscope Company, Colonel William N. Selig continued producing...
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1921
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1919
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When his father gets fed up with his spendthrift ways, Jimmie (Franklyn Farnum) is forced to find work. A newspaper hires him...
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1918
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Booted out of his own home by his snobbish father, wealthy playboy Laurence Percival Van Huyler (Franklin Farnum) is forced...
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Lawrence Percival Van Huyler
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1918
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1918
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Some critics took Franklin Farnum to task for too closely emulating his screen "role model" Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in The...
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1918
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1918
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Gerald Harper (Thomas Holding) is running for governor, and that's about the only reason his ambitious wife Carol...
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1918
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After ten years in China, Monty Gray (Franklyn Farnum) meets up with old friend Wilbur Mason. He sees a photo of Wilbur's...
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1917
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Jeannie, the usual cinematic country girl (Leah Baird), marries a city man (Franklyn Farnum) who neglects her and then...
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1917
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Franklyn Farnum and Brownie Vernon team up yet again for another Universal comedy-drama. In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his...
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1917
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Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none...
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Theodore Crosby
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1917
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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This drama was based on the then-popular novel by Richard Hardin Davis. Billy Winthrop (Franklyn Farnum) is the idle son of...
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1917
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The Clean Up was ostensibly set in Illinois, but the distinctly Californian topography and foliage in the outdoor scenes...
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1917
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The Winged Mystery was supposed to have been taken seriously, but audiences and critics alike regarded the film as a laugh...
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1917
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