In a reversal of the situation in the sixth-season episode "Encore," in which a gangster was persuaded that he had gone back...
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1972
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Fugitive criminal Dree Foster (Robert Drivas) leads the FBI on a not-so-merry chase beginning in Philadelphia and ending in...
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1972
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Superbeast was released on a double bill with Daughters of Satan. Both were filmed in the Philippines. In Superbeast an...
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1972
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Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created...
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1971
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Also known as A Dangerous Friend, this real-life-based drama tells of a young man with a penchant for sex and violence. In...
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1971
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The men of Adam-12 have quite a full case load in this episode. One of the challenges facing mobile officers Reed (Kent...
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1970
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Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are duly impressed when a young civilian, Lauro Perez (A...
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1970
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Bill Bixby sheds his "lovable sitcom hero" persona in the role of smooth-talking psychopath Tom Dayton. Seven years after...
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1970
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Vacationing at a mountain cabin, Ironside (Raymond Burr) ends up trapped in a blizzard with an old friend named Harry Peters...
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1970
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Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local...
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1970
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Sally Field had her first significant dramatic role in this "generation gap" TV movie. After a year's time in the world of...
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1970
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This jungle adventure is comprised of two episodes from the 1966-69 TV show. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local...
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1967
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In this WW II drama, a unit of Marines have 96 hours to make it through the dense Philippine jungle and locate a...
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Cpl. Alvin Ross
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1966
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Hans Conried guest stars as Major Bonacelli, a pacifistic Italian POW commandant. Assigned to study under Stalag 17's Col....
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1966
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1966
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The chase is on in New Mexico for five dangerous escaped convicts, led by Earl Clayton (Charles Bronson). The deranged...
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1966
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A mineral deficiency called "gold starvation" temporarily gives Martin (Ray Walston) the Midas touch--that is, everything he...
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1965
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The US Army chooses a supposedly abandoned island as the testing site for "Operation Powder Keg." Naturally, the island...
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Maj. Adams
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1965
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With the help of some Martian noodle soup, Martin (Ray Walston) subliminally teaches thrift to the overly generous Mrs. Brown...
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1965
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Martin (Ray Walston) gets mighty jealous when he sees Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) dallying with Mrs. Brown (Pamela...
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1965
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In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just...
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1965
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In this western a cowboy rides out for vengeance against the outlaws who brutally murdered his sister. But before he can...
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1965
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason (Chuck Connors) recalls an incident in his past, involving a young and...
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1965
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Alarms start flashing all the way from California to Washington when Station 3, a top-secret, ultra-high-security research...
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1965
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Granny is flattered when a cab driver named Richard Burten (the inimitable Mel Blanc) offers to give her a ride to the...
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1964
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In his efforts to help museum curator Wilbur Canfield (Cecil Kellaway)--and incidentally, to expand the cultural horizons of...
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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Scheming Frances Walden (Constance Ford) hopes to use the "gossip grapevine" in the small farming town of Palmetto to break...
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1963
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In this routine western set in 1864 in Montana, U.S. Marshal Jim McDowell (James Philbrook) is trying to safely get a...
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1962
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In this rollicking takeoff of the TV western series Bonanza, Jim Backus guest stars as wealthy rancher Joe Wheelwright, the...
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1961
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Sue Ling (Lisa Lu), a Chinese slave girl purchased by the infamous General Tsung (Richard Loo), is kidnapped and held for...
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1961
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Audie Murphy plays a gunslinger put in charge of a posse. His quarry is a four-man bandit gang that has robbed the local...
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1961
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This episode draws upon the considerable talents of several TV-western stalwarts, including George Kennedy, Harry Carey Jr.,...
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1960
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Directed by old Superman-hand Lee Sholem, Louisiana Hussy is one of the better "swamp trash" B flicks of the 1960s....
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1960
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This is a well-wrought action-thriller with enough menacing violence to keep a shock value high, but not enough to overcome...
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1960
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With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer...
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1959
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Wayde Preston took a break from his starring duties on the Warner Bros. western series Colt. 45 for a guest stint in this...
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1959
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A transient finds the corpse of a murdered policeman and decides to steal his clothing and his identity to find the killers...
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1959
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Tarzan's Fight for Life was the last "Tarzan" entry to be produced by Sol Lesser, whose association with the series dated...
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1958
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In this western, a convict escapes from prison to search for the considerable loot he and his gang had stolen off a stage...
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1958
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This odd drama features Jack Nicholson, then only 21-years old, in his first feature film. He plays a young delinquent who...
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Porter
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1958
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The Toughest Gun in Tombstone, at least according to this film, as Arizona ranger Matt Sloane (George Montgomery). Working...
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1958
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The Springdale, NE, bank is held up and robbed by a well organized gang. One of the members is Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of...
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1958
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Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie...
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1957
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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1957
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In this western set in the Mexican controlled part of California, a villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner...
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1957
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A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph...
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1957
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Pill poppin' truckers provide the focus of this anti-drug drama. Much of the story centers upon an investigator for the US...
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1957
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Original slated for release through United Artists, the Wisberg-Yarborough production Women of Pitcairn Island was ultimately...
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1957
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Marshal Brennan (Douglas Fowley) lies dying at the outset of this compact western. Fleeing from a posse, an unnamed...
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1957
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Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a...
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1956
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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1956
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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Ron Haskell
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1956
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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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1956
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1956
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This Lone Ranger western is comprised of three episodes from the TV series. He and Tonto look into a haunted canyon. They...
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1956
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Three episodes of the Lone Ranger and Tonto series sees the pair searching for outlaws, locating missing road agents and...
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1956
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Columbia's The Werewolf is not nearly as generic as its title would suggest: in fact, it is one of the better films of its...
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Clovey
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1956
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Like most Sam Katzman efforts of the late 1950s, Miami Expose laid claim to being "torn from today's headlines." Lensed on...
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1956
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1956
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In this melodrama, an American soldier finds himself by two private eyes hired by the wealthy German father of the man he...
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Jancoweizc
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1955
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1955
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1955
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The Feds investigate a counterfeit ring operating out of a traveling circus in this 12-part Republic crime serial. ~...
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1955
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It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and...
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1955
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This jungle adventure is the final entry in the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. This time Bomba (played by 24-year-old Johnny...
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1955
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Self-style western star John Carpenter is the "auteur" of the low-budget hayburner Outlaw Treasure. Carpenter not only stars...
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1955
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A gangster is killed by a big man who pays no attention to bullets, and who leaves glowing fingerprints. Police scientist...
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1955
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At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to...
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1954
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A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor)...
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1954
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A feature version of a twelve chapter Republic Pictures, this drama starred Harry Lauter as Tom Rogers, an enterprising South...
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Tom Rogers
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1954
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Dragonfly Squadron is set in 1950 in the months before the beginning of the Korean War. John Hodiak stars as Major Mathew...
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1954
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The Fortyniners stars Wild Bill Elliot as California-based federal agent Sam Nelson. While others pan for gold, Sam searches...
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1954
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Famed German filmmaker E. A. Dupont, who in his peak years was responsible for such classics as Variety, merely goes through...
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Parker
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1954
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The syndicated TV sci-fi series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1953) was dual-purposed. Though running 39 episodes, the series...
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1954
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Yankee Pasha has the potential for silliness, but is commendably played straight by most of the participants (exceptions...
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1954
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Director Leslie Selander invests the Allied Artists "special" Fighter Attack with the same energy that he'd previously...
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1953
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Fritz Lang directed this gritty drama of gangland murder and police corruption, which was considered quite violent in its...
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1953
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Gene Autry's summer release for 1953 was the 56-minute Pack Train. In this one, Autry is assigned to safely transport...
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1953
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This pedestrian chapterplay added William Henry -- renamed Bill Henry for the occasion -- to the long list of lesser known...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass...
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Russ Mason
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1953
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In this western, a brave cowgirl tries to steal the ill-gotten gains of an outlaw gang. The sheriff is hot on her heels. ~...
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1953
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Prince of Pirates is fairly elaborate for a Sam Katzman production, though its low budget does betray itself in the closing...
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1953
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Monogram's Sea Tiger stars John Archer as discredited sea captain Ben McGrun, on the outs for supposedly collaborating with...
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Jon Edmun
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1952
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Franz
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1952
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Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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1952
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The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series...
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Dave Kilrain
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1952
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Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the...
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1952
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In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female...
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1952
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Rex Allen, aka "The Arizona Cowboy," again stars as himself in Republic's Silver City Bonanza. Allen and his sidekick Gabe...
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1951
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Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of...
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1951
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Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on...
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1951
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An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the...
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1951
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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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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Tom Mallory
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1951
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Republic singing cowboy Rex Allen is once again teamed with bucolic Buddy Ebsen in Thunder in God's Country. This...
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1951
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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1951
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Gene Autry stars in the 1951 sagebrusher Whirlwind. In this outing, Autry plays a frontier postal inspector known for his...
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Wade Trimble
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1951
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Byington, a retired teacher, sells her apartment complex to ex-gangsters who begin kicking out the tenants. Byington tries to...
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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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All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps...
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1951
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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Experiment Alcatraz stars John Howard as a doctor who develops a serum to cure radioactive poisoning. He tests it on several...
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1950
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1950
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Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and...
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1950
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Singing cowboy Monte Hale was relying more on action than songs by the time he starred in Republic's Prince of the Plains....
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1949
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One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with....
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1949
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Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title...
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1949
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Ex-navy pilot Slattery (Richard Widmark) works for a dope-smuggling ring. When he's not in the air, Slattery is making time...
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1949
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Eight-year-old Beau Bridges essayed his first leading role in Zamba. Bridges plays a young boy who, with his mother...
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1949
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Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World...
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1949
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In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own...
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1949
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Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon...
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1949
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The rubber-stamp quality of Allan "Rocky" Lane's Republic westerns continued to manifest itself in Bandit King of Texas....
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1949
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1949
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In Frontier Investigator, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays the title character, spending the bulk of the picture searching for the...
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1949
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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In this war drama, set in New Guinea circa 1943, a squadron of fliers, stationed near Port Moresby must keep the Japanese at...
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1948
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This "B" effort from the 20th Century-Fox stable stars John Emery and Tamara Geva as John Newberry and Maria Ivar, a pair of...
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1948
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Warren Douglas plays an average Joe who bears a striking resemblance to a famous gangster. A group of rival hoods beat up the...
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1948
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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