In this western, the many travails of a wagonmaster on a Westward trek are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1954
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Rex Allen, the last of Republic's singing cowboys, stars in Red River Shore. This time, it's up to Allen to prevent a major...
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1953
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The title of this Gene Autry opus is almost as long as the film itself. This time, Autry plays a circuit judge who presides...
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1953
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1953
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In this Republic western, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays a Texas Ranger endeavoring to bring progress to the prairies. A natural...
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1953
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Gene Autry's second 1953 entry, On Top of Old Smoky casts Autry more or less as himself, a travelling balladeer. The story...
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1953
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Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick Slim (Slim Pickens) try to...
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1953
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Savage Frontier stars Allan "Rocky" Lane in his familiar movie guise as a U.S. marshal. A criminal gang, run by a mysterious...
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1953
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Postal inspector Rex Allen rides hell bent for leather in order to save an innocent man from hanging in this enjoyable...
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1953
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude...
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1952
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Gene Autry goes undercover once again in this rather pedestrian western from Columbia Pictures. Suspecting jailed youth Dave...
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1952
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Gene Autry plays a cattle buyer in the better-than-average formula western Barbed Wire. Investigating a paucity of fresh...
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1952
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This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern...
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1951
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Hills of Utah casts Gene Autry as a frontier doctor with a predilection for singing. A recent med-school graduate, Autry sets...
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1951
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Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of...
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1951
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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At first glance, Cow Town seems to be a documentary, as an unseen narrator describes the changes made in the Old West by the...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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Sunset in the West finds Roy Rogers playing a deputy sheriff in a wide-open town. Roy must contend with a vicious...
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1950
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Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers'...
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1950
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According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show,...
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1950
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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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One of the most famous of the anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s, Republic's The Red Menace plays like a merciless...
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1949
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1948
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This prison drama is told via flashback and follows a group of prisoners bound for Alcatraz. En route, the group plans their...
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1948
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Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars...
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1948
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Promoted from Republic B westerns to "A" productions, William "Wild Bill" Elliot found himself in the sort of roles...
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1947
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With the defection of Gene Autry from the Republic lot, Roy Rogers was truly the King of the Singing Cowboys. In On the Old...
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1947
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1947
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One of the better Roy Rogers vehicles of its period, Home in Oklahoma casts Rogers as a crusading frontier newspaper editor....
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1947
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Rainbow over Texas is set in a western never-never land, with vintage six-shooters and stagecoaches sharing screen time with...
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1946
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In the tradition of several of the Gene Autry vehicles of the 1930s, Roy Rogers' Helldorado is built around a real-life...
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1946
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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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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In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new...
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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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A tuneful Roy Rogers Western, Along the Navajo Trail finds Dale Evans' Lazy A Ranch under siege from nasty J. Richard Bentley...
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1945
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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1944
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The Falcon in Mexico wastes no time getting started: within the first ten minutes, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway),...
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1944
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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Cattlemen Robert Paige and Noah Beery Jr. run up against a shady syndicate, set up to squash the dealing between independent...
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1943
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In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A shady newspaper...
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1943
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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1942
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In this western, Roy plays both the villain and the hero. As the bad-guy, he heads a ring of rustlers. The trouble begins...
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1942
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Secrets of the Wasteland is a lesser "Hopalong Cassidy" western, with talk taking precedence over action. This time, Hoppy...
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1941
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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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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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1941
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1940
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Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the...
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1940
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When an evil land grabbers forces settlers out of their homes, the courageous Three Mesquiteers ride up to stop him. Rootin'...
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1940
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In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures...
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1940
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Young Buffalo Bill was one of a brief series of Roy Rogers "historical westerns" of the early 1940s. Per the title, Rogers...
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1940
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Hidden Gold was the 29th installment in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. It perhaps goes without saying that "Hoppy"...
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1940
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The United States Air Force dropping bombs on decent, taxpaying ranchers is perhaps not your standard B-Western theme but...
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1939
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South of the Border, a western directered by George Sherman, features two United States government agents (Gene Autry) and...
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1939
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The action content of Republic's Gene Autry musical westerns was considerably enhanced by veteran director B. Reeves "Breezy"...
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1939
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Gene Autry goes up against a crooked oil company in this delightful music Western restored in 2001 by Gene Autry...
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1939
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As in all his early westerns, Roy Rogers battles true Old West outlaws in the fine In Old Caliente. He is, as usual, Roy...
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1939
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Despite its tantalizing title, Wall Street Cowboy must rank as one of the lesser Roy Rogers films. The story is set in motion...
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1939
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Roy Rogers got himself a new sidekick in the disheveled, toothless person of George "Gabby" Hayes in this fine Republic...
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1939
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In this western, Roy Rogers rides out to stop angry Confederate terrorists from harassing Missouri residents because they...
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1939
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Too many of Gene Autry's Republic western sacrificed action in favor of music. A notable exception to this syndrome is Blue...
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1939
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1938
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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1938
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This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers,...
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1938
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1937
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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1936
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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1936
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In the opening chapter of the Mascot serial The Phantom Empire, a stagecoach is held up for its content -- musical...
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1935
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Seconds before his automobile crashes over a cliff, Gene Autry is saved by Frankie (Frankie Darro), Betsy (Betsy Ross King)...
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1935
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Gene Autry manages to extricate himself from his latest peril, Douglas Fairbanks style, and fights his way to the surface and...
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1935
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Although the Thunder Riders sever his rope, Gene Autry manages to grab hold of a tree limb, climb to safety and return to...
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) manage to parachute to safety. Meanwhile, 25,000 feet below the...
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1935
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In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids...
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1935
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Gene Autry is saved in the nick of time by Frankie Frankie Darro, who smartly pulls him off the conveyor belt. Murania is now...
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1935
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Gene Autry, Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) all escape the tunnel explosion courtesy of the Junior...
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1935
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In the final chapter of The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry is saved by Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore), who...
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1935
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On Queen Tika's orders, a lifeless Gene Autry) is brought to Murania's Radium Reviving Room, the queen (Dorothy Christy)...
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) survive the airplane crash no worse for wear but are quickly picked...
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1935
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Despite the deadly radium beam, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) manages to pull the lever that opens the surface entrance to...
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1935
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Saved from electrocution by the sudden appearance of a trap door operated by the traitorous Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman), Gene...
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1935
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1934
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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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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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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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1930
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