Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character...
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1961
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In the ninth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) accepts a...
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1960
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John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim...
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1960
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In this western, a US marshal escorts five female killers across Texas to prison. Along the way, they are ambushed by...
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1960
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1960
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Rory Calhoun is the star of this minor oater, playing a roving gunman for hire. His latest mission is to track down a...
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1957
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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1956
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The dramatic weight of Man From Del Rio rests securely on the broad shoulders of star Anthony Quinn. Cast as an indigent...
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1956
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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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Peaceful
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1954
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Newcomer Kelly Ryan plays Kate, The Outlaw's Daughter, in this medium-scale western. Led astray by outlaw leader Jess...
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1954
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In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks...
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1954
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1952
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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1951
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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1951
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Rocky Mountain was planned as a big budget western, but Warner Bros. pared down both its budget and its length to...
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Pap Dennison
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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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Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody....
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Saddle Grease
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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Red
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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1949
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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In this drama, a desperate bank clerk, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, attempts to save himself by embezzling...
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Butch
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1947
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The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure. ~...
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1947
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In his final starring vehicle as a singing cowboy, Ken Curtis saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the...
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1947
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1946
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The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker...
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1946
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Breaking with tradition, and despite its up to the minute country & western soundtrack, this Ken Curtis musical Western is...
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1946
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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Hank
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1946
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In this comedy drama a war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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In this western, a rancher turns his property into a dude ranch for soldiers after he is drafted. Featured upon this ranch...
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1944
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Jim Lacy (Robert Mitchum), Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), and Dusty (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) are three cowpokes working...
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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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Teddy Bear
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1944
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In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor,"...
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1944
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Belle Of The Yukon is standard backstage musical fare, featuring Randolph Scott as a reformed con man who has fled north from...
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1944
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"Fixit"
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1943
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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1943
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There's practically no western action in Hands Across the Border, but there's music aplenty. Roy Rogers stars as a wandering...
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Teddy Bear
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1943
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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1942
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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Luke Manning
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1942
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Billed as "The Girl who Stopped a Thousand Shows" and "The Poor Man's Garbo," burlesque dancer Margie Hart made her feature...
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1942
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former...
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1941
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Republic Pictures obviously hoped to build vaudevillian Eddie Foy Jr. into a major screen comedian, as witness such efforts...
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Gunther Potts
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1941
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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Radio humorist Bob Burns plays the title role in Alias the Deacon. Based on a stage play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clements...
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1940
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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1940
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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1940
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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Jake
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert....
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Billy Sweet
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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Sad-eyed Ann Dvorak plays Jo, the "café hostess" of the title. Poor put-upon Jo doesn't know it, but she's being used by her...
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T-Bone
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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Moose McCarthy
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1939
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One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against...
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Mate
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1939
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Samson Smith
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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The Marines are Here exhumes the old bromide about the reckless young sprout who learns how to be an all-around good fellow...
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Sgt. Gibbons
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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The cornpone comedy of the Weaver Brothers & Elviry permeates this ramshackle Republic musical. The plot gets under way when...
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1938
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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1938
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In this comedy, designed to exploit the then current national craze for picture puzzles, an alcoholic advertising exec...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Jack LaRue goes through his usual unsavory paces in the not-bad cheapie I Demand Payment. The film is one of several...
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1938
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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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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Slug Cassidy
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1938
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Slim
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1938
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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Duke
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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1937
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1937
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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Cupid
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1937
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1937
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Not only is "she" no lady, but heroine Jerry (Ann Dvorak) doesn't even have a ladylike name. Jerry is an insurance...
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Jeff
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1937
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In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore...
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1937
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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When New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine instructed his men that the best way to handle criminals was to "muss...
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1936
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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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1936
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In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler...
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1936
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The last of five inexpensive Westerns produced by small-scale Beacon Pictures, Gun Play starred brawny Guinn "Big Boy"...
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1936
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The Commodore (Fred Stone), an average man in an average small town, is incensed that killers and thieves are able to use...
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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More of a whodunit than a straight Western, this Guinn "Big Boy" Williams vehicle from low-budget Beacon Pictures at least...
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Tom Duncan
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1935
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This drama presents a dim view of life in a small town populated by back-stabbing, narrow-minded, hypocritical and...
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1935
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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1935
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Based on William Colt MacDonald's Law of the Forty-Fives, this ultra low-budget Beacon Western stars...
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Tucson Smith
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1935
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Guinn "Big Boy" Williams had only himself to blame for this hackneyed Western, which he based on his own "original" story. A...
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Screen Story, Bob Wilson
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1935
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William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by...
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Lullaby Joslin
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1935
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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1935
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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1935
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In this comedy, a woman lives with her recently impoverished family who would do anything to regain their former wealth and...
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Edgar Prouty
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1935
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In this drama, a department store clerk is falsely accused of stealing and attempted murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1934
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1934
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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1934
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Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery...
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1934
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The second of four Westerns starring Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and released by low-budget Beacon Pictures, this film has...
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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1934
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The first of five Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Westerns produced by low-budget Beacon Pictures, Thunder Over Texas remains one of...
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1934
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many...
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1934
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Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting...
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1934
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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1933
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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Man of the Forest is based on a Zane Grey story, previously filmed in 1921 and 1926. The title character is two-fisted...
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1933
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Set in New York's Greenwich Village (specifically, on Bleecker Street), William Seiter's Rafter Romance is a cute romantic...
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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This brisk Monogram melodrama includes all the requisite entertainment elements: Talented cast, solid story, a plenitude of...
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Sandy Higgins
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1933
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This second filming of Zane Grey's novel (first brought to the screen by Paramount in 1924 with Bebe Daniels as the female...
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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1932
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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Steve Bromm
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1932
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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The butt of many a practical joke at the office where he works as a clerk, Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) is nonetheless determined...
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1932
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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1932
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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1932
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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1931
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Dick Berney
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1931
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A largely forgotten comedy-chiller in the tradition of The Cat and the Canary, The Phantom, from Poverty Row company Artclass...
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Dick Mallory
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1931
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1930
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1930
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In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the...
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Al "Tiny" Courtlay
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1930
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1930
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Produced by Fox Studios, The Big Fight was ultimately released by a lesser firm, Sono-Art. Lola Lane stars as manicurist...
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1930
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In this drama, a lonely woman leads an isolated life on a ramshackle with her widowed mother who firmly believes her...
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1929
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This college musical chronicles the travails of a college football star who wants to quit playing. To stop him, the...
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Honey Smith
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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Sgt. Wilmer
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1929
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1928
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A largely silent musical, My Man is primarily a showcase for the enormously popular Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice who...
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Joe Halsey
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1928
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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Al/Ham
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1928
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1928
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1928
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French Louie
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1928
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One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
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1927
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William Fairbanks couldn't hope to convince audiences that he was in the same league as his namesame Douglas Fairbanks. Even...
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1927
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Jobyna Ralston and Margaret Livingston play actresses touring with a "Topsy & Eva" act. In Chicago, they meet and flirt with...
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Cuth Stewart
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1927
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George Ade's barnstorming stage comedy The College Widow (which at one time boasted baseball great Ty Cobb as its leading...
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1927
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Chorus girl Barbara Bedford is left broke and stranded by a crooked producer in Backstage. Her good-hearted stage manager pal...
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1927
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1927
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that actress Lilyan Tashman preferred the company of women to men. Who better, then, to...
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1927
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After a lengthy apprenticeship in bits and secondary roles, Gary Cooper was promoted to stardom in the Zane Grey western...
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1927
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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1926
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This film is one of three action thrillers featuring Wolfheart, a low-budget Rin-Tin-Tin imitator, and dumb jock...
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1925
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Jim Lawson
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1925
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1924
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1924
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This is one of 19 westerns produced and directed by former cameraman Charles R. Seeling and starring the burly,...
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1923
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Freshie stars Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Charles Taylor, a lumbering cowboy who yearns for a college education. Managing to...
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1922
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Produced, directed and photographed by Charles R. Seeling, Rounding Up the Law remains one of the very few extant Westerns...
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1922
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1921
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Billy Fargo
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1921
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Because he was unable to give voice to his earthy wit, Will Rogers' on-film appeal was a bit limited during the silent era....
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The Foreman
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1921
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This video double feature consists of early silent short subjects starring those two old Ziegfeld Follies colleagues,...
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1921
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Screenwriter
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1921
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In this romantic comedy, a school teacher moves from his home in the country to a small town. He attends a party and becomes...
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1919
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This simple comedy drama was adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post, but the film itself doesn't seem to have...
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1919
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