One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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1955
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The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who...
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1954
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A gangster is sentenced to prison for killing his wife, but the woman isn't really dead: she's alive and well, raising her...
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1954
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Hell's Half Acre was written directly for the screen by Steve Fisher, whose I Wake Up Screaming remains one of the definitive...
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1954
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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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1953
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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1953
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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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1953
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1953
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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1953
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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1953
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The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this...
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1952
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1951
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The Cinecolor "A" western Slaughter Trail anticipated High Noon by having its story narrated in song by troubadour...
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1951
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1951
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Though filmed in Hollywood, The Vicious Years is set in postwar Italy. Tommy Cook plays a homeless orphan named Mario, who...
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1950
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Also known as Reign of Terror, The Black Book is a bold effort by director Anthony Mann to film a French Revolution epic on a...
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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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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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1947
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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1947
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This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an...
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1946
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1946
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In his first film after four-years of military duty, Gene Autry returns to a familiar setting: a modern western...
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1946
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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1946
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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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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This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played...
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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1945
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In his first starring role in several years, Robert Armstrong essays a dual role in Gangs of the Waterfront. Armstrong is...
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1945
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Republic's Swingin' on a Rainbow utilizes a plotline that had already done service in several of the studio's previous budget...
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1945
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a...
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1945
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This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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1945
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Though released by Republic Pictures, The Tiger Woman is not a serial, as might be assumed from the title. Adele Mara stars...
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1945
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In this romance, a GI falls in love with his pen-pal. Believing her to be a wealthy, beautiful girl, he goes to see her...
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1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel...
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1944
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Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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1943
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Roddy McDowall stars Hugh Aylesworth, as a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London blitz. Hugh...
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer revolves around the misadventures of two not-overly-bright motorcycle patrolmen. Waitress...
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1941
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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1941
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This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" series was a remake of the 1932 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East. In...
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1941
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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1941
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The title character in Charter Pilot is King Morgan (Lloyd Nolan), who thinks nothing of taking life-threatening risks on a...
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1940
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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Despite the title, the Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) doesn't feel too lucky at the beginning of this film. It seems that someone...
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and...
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1939
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This drama chronicles the life and times of a notorious gangster. The story begins at his funeral. There a reporter,...
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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1939
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Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all...
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1939
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A transport pilot is ordered to fly a risky mission. The pilot, Scott, refuses the dangerous mission and is fired from his...
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1939
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20th Century-Fox's Meet the Girls was the vanguard of an intended series about the misadventures of two trouble-prone chorus...
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1938
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse....
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of...
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1938
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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1937
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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1937
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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1936
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1936
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Jane Withers plays "little Miss Fixit" in Pepper with a minimum of sentimental goo and a maximum of laughs. Though she's been...
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1936
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The cinematic saga of The Jones Family began modestly in 1936 with Every Saturday Night. Jed Prouty and Spring Byington star...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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1935
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1933
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Tom Keene's first western entry of 1932, Partners casts the star as the partner of travelling medicine-show entrepreneur...
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1932
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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1932
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1932
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This entry in RKO's Tom Keene series was one of several early sound Westerns to cross over into the haunted house...
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1932
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Ride Him, Cowboy was the first entry in John Wayne's "B"-western series for Warner Bros. Wayne plays John Drury, a handsome...
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1932
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The title of this RKO western refers to the wagons which bore settlers Westward during the mid-19th century. Following in his...
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1932
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy and an eastern city-slicker find they are co-inheritors of a ranch. The genteel woman loathes the...
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1931
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This early sound western was cowboy-star Ken Maynard's second to last under his 1929-1930 contract with Universal. The...
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1930
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In this musical western, a cowpoke goes searching for his brother's killer. The brother had been a Texas Ranger. He finds...
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1930
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In this musical, a Marine gets a furlough in New York City and falls in love. He later returns and finds that a lazy...
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1930
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The dashing Ken Maynard, who always warned that he sang loudly rather than well, finished his 1929-1930 stay at Universal...
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1930
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Having recently signed with Universal, Western star Ken Maynard became his own producer with this early talkie Western...
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1930
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Cowboy star Bob Steele looks embarrassed throughout most of Headin' North, as well he should. The film begins conventionally...
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1930
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Western hero Ken Maynard lifted his voice in a campfire song, making the near tone-deaf actor the first "singing cowboy."...
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1930
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This part-talkie is one of those strange hybrids so prevalent during the changeover to sound: part silent western, part...
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1930
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Though Universal temporarily abandoned its western product when talkies came in, a few of its 1929 silent sagebrushers were...
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1929
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By 1929, strapping cowboy Ken Maynard had become First National's ace western star. The former stunt rider was being afforded...
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1929
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Popular western star Ken Maynard crooned a couple of prairie tunes in this his first (part-)talkie, making Ken the screen's...
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1929
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Royal Rider is an amusing mixture of traditional western fare and Ruritanian melodrama. Ken Maynard plays Dick Scott, a rodeo...
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1929
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In one of his finest silent Westerns, Ken Maynard comes to the rescue of a young girl whose mine is about to be appropriated...
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1928
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Savage Passions was produced by Nat Levine, long before his fruitful association with Republic Pictures. Set in the hills of...
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1927
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Several westerns of the '20s centered around a foppish Easterner toughening up in a Western atmosphere, a role made popular...
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1922
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Usually cast in supporting roles, veteran character actor Russell Simpson earned a rare leading role in this obscure...
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1921
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