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1995
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U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine...
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1967
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In this western, a gunfighter is hired to clean up the chaotic streets of Emporia, Wyoming. The gunfighter arrives and finds...
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1966
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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1965
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Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend...
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1959
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In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the...
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1958
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1957
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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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Pvt. Knight
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1956
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Pvt. Knight
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1955
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Combined here are select episodes from two popular '50s TV serials which often appeared on Saturday mornings across the U.S....
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1955
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Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an...
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1953
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1953
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In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there...
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1952
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Texas
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1952
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Cowboy hero Wild Bill Elliot (whose trademark was wearing his six-shooters backwards in his holsters) stars in this oater....
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1952
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Hard-working leading lady Jane Nigh attains top billing in 1952's Rodeo. It's all about rough-and-ready gal Nancy Cartwright...
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1952
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Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for...
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1952
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The West is scared by an infamous gunslinger in this western film. ~ Rovi...
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the...
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Smithers
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1952
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1951
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Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory...
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Sneaky Pete
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1951
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No relation to the TV series of the same name, Wanted: Dead or Alive is a Monogram "B" western, vintage 1951. Its star is the...
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1951
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Judy Canova continues to bring home the box-office bacon for Republic Pictures in Oklahoma Annie. Judy plays Judy, Queen of...
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1951
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The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller (I. Stanford Jolley), a greedy express agent and...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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A stage line is once again threatened by a greedy rival in this ultra low-budget western from small-scale Monogram Pictures....
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Texas
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1951
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Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at the Iverson Movie Ranch...
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1951
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Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films...
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Mayor Deacon
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1950
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1950
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In his second starring vehicle, singing cowboy Rex Allen plays the head of a frontier cattlemen's association. The villain is...
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Jigg
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1950
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Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space...
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Deacon
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1950
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Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of...
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Deacon
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1950
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Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of...
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Deacon
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1950
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Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed...
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Deacon
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1950
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1950
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West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these...
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Deacon
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1950
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Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in...
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Porky
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1949
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1949
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Apache Chief was the second film to be lensed with the Garutso Balanced Lens, which gave the illusion of a three-dimensional...
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Nevada Smith
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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1949
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Bearing little relation to the 1946 MGM production Gallant Bess, The Adventures of Gallant Bess is a heartwarming...
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1948
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1947
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Stagecoach thieves are stalked by Wells Fargo agent Grant who wants to bring them to justice. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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Teenaged Junior (Scotty Beckett) gets into trouble when he tries to bring a gun to school. To explain why he's packing a rod,...
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Cudgeons
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1946
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When a local banker is killed in the West, G-man Kirby Grant and partner Fuzzy Knight investigate and uncover an insurance...
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1946
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In this western, a tuneful saddletramp is appointed sheriff of Rawhide and begins rounding up three troublesome brothers. ~...
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1946
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band tries to take over the reins of a stagecoach line. The outlaw's gal is a...
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Ivory
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1946
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A would-be nightclub entertainer finds her life jeopardized after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder while...
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1946
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Though on its last legs, Universal's "B"-musical unit continued grinding out tune-filled quickies like Swing Out, Sister well...
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1945
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In this costume drama, a woman travels from New England to California's Barbary coast to avenge her brother's death. There...
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1945
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In this western, a young man infiltrates a vicious gang of bank robbers in order to capture his father's killer. ~ Sandra...
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1945
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In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote...
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Pete
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1945
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In this musical, a young woman from a small town heads for New York where she hopes to become a famous singer. She has no...
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1945
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In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good...
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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Fuzzy
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1945
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Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic western series starring...
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1945
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Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby...
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1945
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In this western, a rancher's search for his brother's killer is interrupted by a wicked banker and his gang who are trying...
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1945
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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Fuzzy
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1944
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In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante....
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1944
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U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and...
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1944
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Boss of Boomtown was Rod Cameron's first western at Universal Pictures. The film's action highlights are loosely basted to a...
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1944
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Yet another tuneful Roy Rogers Western named after a song, The Cowboy and the Senorita features Roy and sidekick Teddy Bear...
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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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In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless...
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1944
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In this western, a group of avaricious businessman try to coerce settlers from their valuable land until a brave cowboy...
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1944
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A new invention, known as the Paratron and vitally important for America's war effort, becomes the focal point in yet another...
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1944
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In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too...
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1944
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In this western, the good-guys keep the bad-guys from taking over the water-rights of a group of trail drivers in the Santa...
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1944
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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Charlie
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1943
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Dick Foran is back for another seven-reel melange of music and comedy in Universal's He's My Guy. Foran is cast as...
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Sparks
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Dusty Gardner, spokesmen for a group of hard-working cattlemen. As Gardner and his compatriots...
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Polario
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1943
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In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land...
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Eustace Clairmont
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is...
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Cal Cawkins
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1943
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When cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown left Universal for Monogram, he also left one last western, Arizona Trail, unfilmed. Thus...
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1943
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A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to...
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1943
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The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at...
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Angus MacAngus
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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Si Dugan
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1943
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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Wild Bill Jones
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1942
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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"Happy T" Snodgrass
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1942
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Stagecoach Buckaroo was Johnny Mack Brown's final Universal western of the 1941-42 season. A gang of holdup men has been...
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Clem
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented...
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Dr. J. Wellington Dingle
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1942
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It should be obvious to fans of husky, muscle-bound cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown that he does not play the title role in...
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Little Joe Smith
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1942
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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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Grubby
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1942
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1942
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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Stuff
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1941
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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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Porky
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1941
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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1941
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In this western, a town finds itself under the tyrannical control of a shady sheriff. He is usurped by an honest outside...
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1941
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This back-stage romantic comedy pokes fun at Hollywood cowboys as it tells the story of a champion rodeo rider who is...
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a...
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Chaparral
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown from Alabama stretches his acting range to play the Man From Montana. The old "divide and conquer" western...
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Grubby
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1941
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Arizona Cyclone is usually cited as the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series, if only because of the...
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Muleshoe
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1941
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Cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown launched his third season at Universal with the above-average entry The Masked Rider. Moseying...
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Patches
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1941
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In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things...
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Tick Belden
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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1940
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Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures....
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Joe
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1940
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that...
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Deadwood
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1940
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Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil...
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Spud Jenkins
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1940
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Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett,...
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Weary
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1940
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Inspired no doubt by the success of Republic Pictures' singing cowboys, Universal dragged Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders...
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Shorty
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1940
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Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of...
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Luther
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1940
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1940
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West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush...
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Banjo
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1940
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1939
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With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal....
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Cousin Willie
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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Windy Day
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1939
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Perennial chorus girl Toby Wing earns a rare chance to play a leading role in this horseracing melodrama which cast her as a...
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1938
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter fights for the love of the woman who disdains him and his chosen profession. She begins...
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Spider
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1938
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Directed by the veteran J.P. McGowan, Where the West Begins was the fourth of 22 Westerns -- some with music -- starring Jack...
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Buzzy
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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Buzz
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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The second of the Stan Laurel-financed Fred Scott-singing Westerns, Songs and Bullets features the riding baritone as Melody...
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1938
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Universal's newest singing cowboy Bob Baker heads the cast of Border Wolves. The film starts off like gangbusters, with an...
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Clem Barrett
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1938
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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1938
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1938
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The Last Stand is among the better Bob Baker westerns, with the star getting to show off his athletic prowess as well as his...
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Pepper
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1938
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A jockey is thrown off the track after it is discovered that gangsters drugged his horse. This drama follows his attempts to...
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Whitey
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1937
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1937
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Nothing of cult director Joseph H. Lewis' much-vaunted flair is on display in this average musical Western, the screen debut...
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Hank Givens
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1937
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Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a...
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Scotty
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1937
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1937
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In trying to help Betsy (Joan Barclay), who has stolen a diamond her father left for collateral with loan sharks Crone...
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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In this backwoods musical, two feudin' families provide the basis of the action. The tale begins as the head of one family...
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1937
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In this western, a singing outlaw and a US marshal kill each other in a fight. Their demise is witnessed by an opportunistic...
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Longhorn
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1937
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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Steve Bartlett
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1936
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One of the few non-western releases from Sam Katzman's Victory Productions, Put on the Spot stars Eddie Nugent as G-Man Bob...
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Elmer
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1936
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In this bargain-basement actioner, a determined young woman tries to prove that her incarcerated brother is innocent. She...
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1936
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A radio-controlled bomb accurate within 200 miles is the cause of much mayhem in this low-budget science fiction-thriller...
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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Hogan
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1936
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In this crime drama, a G-man goes on vacation and ends up pursing a crook disguised as an honest lawyer. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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Elmer
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1936
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's rope-twirling skills are seen to good advantage in Song of the Trail. Maynard is cast as a...
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Pudge
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her...
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1936
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Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...
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Pat
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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In this countrified musical, a farm boy and his girl head for the big city to find fame on the radio. When he becomes popular...
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1935
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Silent screen leading man Lawrence Gray stars in this low-budget thriller produced by legendary penny-pincher Sam Katzman....
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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Windy
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1935
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Broadway producer George White, who was the title character of 1934's George White's Scandals, heads for Florida following...
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1935
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Former child star Jackie Coogan made a somewhat awkward transition to adulthood in Home on the Range. Based on Zane Grey's...
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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1935
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1935
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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1935
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The second of eight low-budget versions of Peter B. Kyne short stories, Hot Off the Press starred Jack LaRue as Bill Jeffry,...
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1935
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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Bunko McGee
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1934
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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1934
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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1933
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When the actress girlfriend of a rich man is pursued by a producer, the rich man hires bodyguard Lowe to protect her, but...
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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1933
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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1932
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