Columbia's "Durango Kid" series was winding down to a close by the time Junction City went before the cameras in 1952....
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1952
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This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under...
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1951
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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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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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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Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always made it seem as if it was...
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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1948
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John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a...
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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1947
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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1946
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Also released in a feature version -- retitled FBI 99 -- this 12 chapter Republic Pictures serial benefitted from fine...
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1945
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Otto Preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a follow-up to his surprise hit Laura. Kicked off a bus...
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1945
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Most cowboy leading men have only a single leading lady: in Utah, Roy Rogers is literally surrounded by delectable females,...
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1945
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Popular latter-day serial queen Linda Stirling starred in the title role in this well-made 12 chapter serial produced by...
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1944
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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1944
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The Yellow Rose of Texas is, at least in the case of this Roy Rogers vehicle, both the title of a song and the name of a...
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1944
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This "Red Ryder" entry stars Gordon "Wild Bill" Elliot as Ryder. The heroine (Linda Stirling) is having troubles with the...
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1944
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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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 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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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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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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1943
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Though it bears the same title as an earlier Gene Autry western, Roy Rogers' The Man from Music Mountain isn't a remake....
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1943
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This western features a flying cowboy. He is a rancher who became a pilot. As a pilot he staunchly defends the newly formed...
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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Roy Rogers heads the cast of Song of Texas as a rodeo star named Roy Rogers. Quitting the rodeo operated by larcenous Jim...
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1943
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Sons of the Pioneers is a showcase for?the Sons of the Pioneers, who are reteamed with ex-"Son" Roy Rogers in this budget...
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1942
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Roy Rogers saves the day for the ranchers of Cherokee City in this fast-paced comedy-Western directed and produced by Joseph...
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1942
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It's hard to dislike the Roy Rogers musical western Romance on the Range, but it's equally hard to get too enthusiastic about...
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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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1942
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Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteeers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the...
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1942
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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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The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any...
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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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1941
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1941
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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1941
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Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star...
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1941
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In this western, Rogers and his sidekick Gabby get into all kinds of trouble when they ride into Tombstone and find...
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1941
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In this entertaining western, Roy Rogers rides to the rescue of ranchers threatened by a drought. With his rousing songs, he...
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1941
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Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding...
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1941
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A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Tim Holt and sidekicks Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn join an outlaw gang in this RKO Western filmed on-location at Victorville,...
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1941
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Charles Starrett plays the title role in Stranger from Texas, but he's no stranger to the cliches inherent in the film's...
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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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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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Brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in this Western set during the Civil War. Posing as a Union officer, Don Mason,...
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1940
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Two-Fisted Rangers was the first of a handful of Charles Starrett westerns to be lifted from the routine by the camera...
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1940
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1940
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The major difference between Bullets for Rustlers and the previous entries in Charles Starrett's western series is that...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series...
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1940
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Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity...
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1940
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Don "Red" Barry, the "Wyoming Outlaw" and "Tulsa Kid" in other Republic westerns, does not play any one of the title...
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1940
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In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and...
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1939
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No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western...
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1939
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Roy Rogers is forced to chase down his own kid brother in this exemplary Republic Pictures oater produced and directed by...
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1939
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In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader whose price...
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1939
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Following up his movie portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Elliot stars as famed trailblazer John "Frontier" Freeman in...
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Kit
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1939
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In this western, a brave hero stops a range war from erupting between homesteaders who are encroaching upon ranchers' land....
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Jed
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1939
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The FBI goes up against a female gang leader in this ultra-low-budget thriller directed by Raymond K. Johnson. Grant Withers...
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1939
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Former outlaw Charles Starrett goes straight and becomes a sheriff. In this capacity, he tries to bring his old partners in...
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1939
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The Tex Ritter Monogram Westerns had a change of directors with Riders of the Frontier, Spencer Gordon Bennet having replaced...
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Buck
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1939
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Seldom was the identity of a "mystery" villain so obvious than in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Overland With Kit Carson....
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1939
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Directed by Universal hack George WaGGner (yes, he insisted on being billed this strange way), Guilty Trails was the fifth of...
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Sundown
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1938
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Black Bandit stars Bob Baker, a singing cowboy whom Universal hoped would prove a worthy competitor to Republic's Gene Autry....
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Weepy
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1938
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Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who...
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Bob Stuart
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1938
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Singing cowboy Bob Baker dispenses plenty of Prairie Justice in this 58-minute western. When his father is bushwacked and...
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Alfalfa
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1938
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Charles Starrett heads the cast; Sam Nelson directs; and the supporting players inlude Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Ed Cobb,...
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1938
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In this western, a looter finds an abandoned, empty mine and begins claiming that he has found the mother lode. Soon,...
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Dan
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1938
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Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach...
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Milt Dodds
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1938
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The locale may be South of Arizona, but the on-screen personnel in this Charles Starrett western is virtually the same as in...
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1938
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One thing was always certain in Columbia's Jack Luden westerns: the supporting cast would include Hal Taliaferro, or...
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Smokey
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1938
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Rex Bell was always an agreeable cowboy hero, even when stuck in such bottom-barrel oaters as Law and Lead. On this occasion,...
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1937
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Each of Bob Allen's six westerns for Columbia had the words "Ranger" or "Range" in the title, and Law of the Ranger was no...
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Wally
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1937
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1937
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State...
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1937
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Heart of the Rockies launched Republic's second season of popular "Three Mesquiteers" westerns. Returning to the fold are...
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1937
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A courageous Texas Ranger leaves his job to mediate a violent, long-standing dispute between his family and that of his...
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Brock
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1937
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Inheriting the props, costumes and much of the stock footage from Columbia's previous Ken Maynard series, Bob Allen rides...
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1937
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1937
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A disgruntled ranger quits his job after a crooked state's attorney manages to get a case of murder thrown out of court in...
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1937
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In this western, a cowboy rides into Mesa and finds that he bears remarkable resemblance to a dead man. Actually he is the...
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Neal King
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1937
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Columbia general purpose actor Bob Allen was briefly transformed into a cowboy for the studio's "B" unit in the mid-1930s....
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Chuckler
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1936
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Directed under the pseudonym "Raymond Samuels" by Harry S. Webb, this cheap Western starred former silent screen cowboy...
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1936
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Most of Ken Maynard's westerns were highly distinctive, if not always good. Heroes of the Range is okay but virtually...
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1936
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In this western, a cowboy finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine...
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1936
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Arguably the best of Hoot Gibson's six Westerns for small-scale producer Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, Lucky Terror...
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1936
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Based on Tracks, a 1928 short story by Stephen Payne, this low-budget Western from Diversion Pictures told the ancient story...
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1936
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Ken Maynard saves Geneva Mitchell from a runaway coach in the opening of this so-so Columbia western. The victim of a stage...
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1936
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The opening sequence of this Ken Maynard Western is spectacular: Attempting to save heroine Beth Marion from the ubiquitous...
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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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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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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Louis Weiss (of Poverty Row's Weiss Bros.) produced this commonplace B-Western starring one of the lesser names of the genre,...
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1935
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Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by...
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1935
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Though filmed on a tight budget, Universal's Trail Drive has the size and scope of a silent western epic, proof positive of...
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1935
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This B-grade western from director Robert Emmett Tansey stars Bobby Nelson, Jimmy Aubrey and William Desmond, in its tale of...
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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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1935
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The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer...
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1934
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The first of seven Western featurettes produced by low-budget entrepreneur William Pizor and starring silent screen cowboy...
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1934
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To say that Smoking Guns is one of Ken Maynard's strangest Westerns is understating the case. The film wastes no time getting...
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1934
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In this western, a miner heads back East and ends up traveling with a wagon train. He carries with him a map of his recently...
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1934
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Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and...
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1934
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1934
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In this western, a persuasive young oil salesman persuades the residents of a small Texas town to invest in an oil well....
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1933
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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1933
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So unknown was John Wayne in 1934 that the Variety review of the "B"-western Sagebrush Trail fails to list Wayne in the cast!...
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1933
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The third in a series of six Jack Hoxie Westerns produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film featured the former...
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1932
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In this western adventure set in the Sonora Desert upon the border between Mexico and the US, a marshal is summoned to stop...
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1931
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Red Fork Range stars Wally Wales, who enjoyed a lengthy starring career in "B"-westerns before entering the character-actor...
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1931
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Nothing in Riders of the Cactus is as entertaining as that title, which invokes all sorts of painful imagery. Hero...
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1931
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Penny-pinching producer John R. Freuler's thoroughly misnamed Big Four Corp. released this early sound western about a ranch...
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1930
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1930
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One of Hollywood's few women producers, Flora E. Douglas, produced this minor western starring former silent screen cowboy...
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1930
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Produced and directed by veteran silent-screen cowboy Leo Maloney, Overland Bound was the first all-talking independently...
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1929
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