Singer Molly Bee once commented ruefully that her films were shown only to captive audiences in jails and reformatories. One...
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1958
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In this drama, a sea captain is accused of negligence when his ship sinks and 162 passengers drown. A zealous defense...
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1958
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In this actioner, set during WW II, the hard-bitten, cynical captain of the USS "Frankenstein" must escape a Japanese...
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1958
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A veritable honor roll of famed western heroes and villains appears in the fanciful oater Badman's Country. It all begins...
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1958
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Captain Steve Williams (Gary Merrill) is piloting a commercial airliner across the Atlantic when he loses two engines in...
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1958
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Scientist Mitch McAfee (Jeff Morrow) cannot convince anyone that an enormous bird, evidently here from outer space, has...
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1957
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This lively musical was made to capitalize on the popularity of calypso music and features some excellent production numbers....
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1957
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1957
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This Sam Katzman-produced sci-fier was originally released on a double bill with Katzman's Giant Claw. The plot is motivated...
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a...
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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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This tense tale of waterfront corruption was clearly inspired by the success of On the Waterfront; there's even a character...
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1956
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Two musicians whose dance band is going nowhere happen across a roadhouse in the sticks, where a pack of fun-loving...
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1956
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Like most Sam Katzman efforts of the late 1950s, Miami Expose laid claim to being "torn from today's headlines." Lensed on...
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1956
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Columbia's The Werewolf is not nearly as generic as its title would suggest: in fact, it is one of the better films of its...
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1956
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Coming off of a hit New York gig, successful rock & roll crooner Arnie Haines (Alan Dale) realizes he and his bandmates are...
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1956
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Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton,...
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1955
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This probing drama offers an inside look into corruption within the United Auto Workers and is loosely adapted from the true...
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1955
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1955
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Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman....
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1955
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1955
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The "juvenile delinquent" film cycle of the 1950s, sparked by The Blackboard Jungle, resulted in such hastily assembled...
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1955
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In this Miami-set crime drama, a secret society of residents united against the ever-encroaching Mafia, hire a reform...
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1954
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In this action war drama, set in the African desert during WW II, a civilian is hired to deliver tanks to the British...
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1954
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Action star Phil Carey once more dons Cavalry Blue in Columbia's Massacre Canyon. This time, Carey plays the unsavory role of...
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1954
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Filmed on location in Utah, The Outlaw Stallion top-bills Phil Carey and Dorothy Patrick, but the star of the proceedings is...
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1954
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In this Korean War drama, a strong-willed, stubborn greenhorn pilot becomes obsessed with avenging the death of his brother...
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1953
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Actual combat footage is used to flesh out the staged dramatics in Columbia's El Alamein. Related in flashback (a la...
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1953
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1953
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Virile leading man Phil Carey heads the cast of the 3D western The Nebraskan. Carey plays U.S. Army scout Wade Harper,...
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1953
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U.S. security agent John Ireland suspects that someone is smuggling atomic devices into America. When he makes his report,...
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1953
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Dan Duryea essays a rare sympathetic role in the Columbia programmer Sky Commandos. At first glance, however, Duryea seems to...
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1953
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Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a...
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1952
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In his final Durango Kid Western (and final film appearance), Charles Starrett once again played an avenger named Steve,...
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1952
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This Columbia quickie stars Richard Denning as an American soldier of fortune who wanders into Hong Kong. He is hired by...
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1952
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Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is...
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1952
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In this lively adventure, an American ambassador arrives in India as it prepares to fight a civil war. He soon learns that...
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1952
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By virtue of the popularity of his TV series The Range Rider, Jack (later Jock) Mahoney is afforded almost as much screen...
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1952
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Charles Starrett is back as The Durango Kid in Laramie Mountains. The villains this time are a group of white outlaws who...
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Maj. Markham
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1952
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Although Smoky Canyon is officially an entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series, the film is essentially a...
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1952
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A sequel to West of Dodge City (1947), this below-average Charles Starrett oater reveals that rather than drowning, nefarious...
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Director, Henry Hardison
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1951
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The Durango Kid--aka Charles Starrett--rides again in Bandits of El Dorado. For the umpteenth time, Starrett plays a lawman...
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Capt. Henley
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1951
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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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1951
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A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of...
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1951
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Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty...
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1951
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Jonathan Cole
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1951
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Billed "Jack Mahoney" for the occasion, former stunt man Jock Mahoney steps up to the plate as a leading man in this average...
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1951
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Snake River Desperadoes affords Charles Starrett another opportunity to don the mask of the do-gooding Durango Kid. In this...
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1951
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Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is...
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1951
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Charles Starrett once more plays the masked, do-gooding Durango Kid in Pecos River. While in mufti, however, Starrett is a...
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1951
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Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first...
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1951
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1951
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1950
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Charles Starrett once more rights wrongs as "The Durango Kid" in Horsemen of the Sierras. The story revolves around Robin...
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1950
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The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by...
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1950
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Charles Starrett, aka "The Durango Kid", is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve Blake, a novice Indian...
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1950
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Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard was the second entry in Columbia's "David Harding, Counterspy" series. Howard St. John stars...
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Peters
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1950
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a...
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1950
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Western star Charles Starrett does not disappoint his fans in Frontier Outpost. As usual, Starrett plays Steve Lawton, a...
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Copeland
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1950
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As an actor, Eddy Arnold was a good country-western singer. In Hoedown, Eddy plays himself, while the acting burden was...
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1950
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No sooner had Columbia called it quits with the "Blondie" series than the studio launched a new group of "B"-pictures, based...
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1950
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1950
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In this final episode of the Boston Blackie mystery series, our hero and his side-kick find themselves accused of murder...
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1949
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Charles Starrett plays Steve Allan in Columbia's Blazing Trail. Halfway through the proceedings, Starrett dons the familiar...
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Luke Masters
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1949
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Desert Vigilante perpetuated the long-running "Durango Kid" western series starring Charles Starrett. Per the title, Starrett...
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1949
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Heavily trimmed prior to release, this entry in the Charles Starrett "Durango Kid" Western series for Columbia includes...
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Colonel Ronald Dennison
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1949
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Two things are certain from the beginning of Renegades of the Sage. One is that star Charles Starrett will play a character...
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1949
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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1949
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Someone is unhappy with Steve Downey taking over his murdered brother-in-law's gold mine -- the Tavishes, for example,...
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Ashton
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1949
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Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody....
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1949
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A reformed gangster, accustomed to a life of danger, finds himself dealing with a new and different threat in this adventure...
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1949
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1949
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western...
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1949
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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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Columbia's dog-and-boy "Rusty" series galloped ever forward with Rusty Leads the Way. This time, young Danny Mitchell...
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1948
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Someone is stirring things up between the ranchers and the homesteaders in Phantom Valley and Marshal Steve Collins (Charles...
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1948
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Whirlwind Raiders differs from the usual run of Charles Starrett westerns only in the fact that it wasn't directed by the...
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Tracy Beaumont
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1948
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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1948
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Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy...
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1947
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Blondie's Anniversary invades territory already mapped out by Columbia's two-reel Hugh Herbert comedies. Blondie...
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1947
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In the opening scene of this fine "Durango Kid" series entry, wannabe general store owner Steve Langtry (Charles Starrett) is...
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1947
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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1947
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1947
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For the Love of Rusty is an easy-to-take entry in Columbia's brief "Rusty" series of the late 1940s. Danny Mitchell...
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1947
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Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the "Durango Kid" to restore law and order in this entry in Columbia's...
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1947
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1947
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Cowboy star Charles Starrett goes through his usual paces in the under-an-hour formula western The Lone Hand Texan. As ever,...
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Sam Jason
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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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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