Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never...
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1952
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Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays...
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1952
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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This serial is set during the American Civil War and is based on the Jules Verne story. A Union Army captain is captured by...
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1951
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a...
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the Monogram oater Outlaw Gold. The plot is motivated by revenge: sentenced to five years in...
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1950
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1949
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Johnny Mack Brown's first starring western for 1950 is cut from the same cloth as his 1949 releases. Brown's principal...
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1949
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The legendary Knights of the Round Table came to the screen in 1949 courtesy of penny-pinching serial producer Sam Katzman. A...
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1949
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Yet another comic strip character -- Whitney Ellsworth's Congo Bill -- reached the screens in serial form courtesy of...
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1948
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In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town....
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Boss Decker
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1948
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Daredevils in the Clouds was one of Republic's several attempts to transform former cowboy star Robert Livingston into a...
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1948
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In the first of his three serials for Columbia Pictures, Larry "Buster" Crabbe starred as Captain Silver who, with his crew,...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Band singer Freddie Stewart stars in the pure-'40s frivolity Vacation Days. It's a high-school musical romance, with some of...
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1947
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1947
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When scientific mastermind Jack Armstrong is kidnapped by a devious fiend determined to discover the secrets of atom-powered...
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1947
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Based on an adventure feature in Action Comics, this 15 chapter serial starred the erstwhile Dick Tracy, Ralph Byrd, as the...
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1947
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Adhering to the long tradition of casting non-action leads in their serials, Republic Pictures hired former 20th Century-Fox...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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Looking for all the world like Robin Hood, Robert Shaw starred in this typically threadbare Sam Katzman serial as David...
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1946
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In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good...
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1945
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Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date....
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1945
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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1944
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The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in...
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1944
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The world's nosiest telephone operator is at it again in this murder mystery. This time Kitty overhears the plans for three...
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1944
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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1943
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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1943
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Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running...
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1943
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Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most...
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1943
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A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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1943
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It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented...
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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1942
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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A fine, action-packed entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" Western series, West of Cimarron featured...
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1941
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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1941
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This "Three Mesquiteers" western is based upon the exploits of one James Addison Reavis, a clever 19th century con artist who...
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's...
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1938
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