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1995
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1994
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None of the original cast members of the long-running (1959-73) TV western series Bonanza are on hand for the 1993 TV movie...
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1994
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With its story of an old man (Jack Elam) leading eight men to a sacred mountain to dig for gold, Uninvited straddles the...
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1993
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Something stinks in tiny Norman, Texas and New York detective Kelly, who has come to attend the funeral of his...
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1992
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A vehicle for popular wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan, Suburban Commando is an inoffensive science-fiction fantasy. Hogan...
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1991
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Nearly three decades after climbing the top-ten charts with his ballad "Big Bad John", Jimmy Dean stars in a film version of...
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1990
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Two 19th Century outlaws attempt to outrun a variety of pursuers after stealing a large cache of gold in this high-energy...
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1989
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Dynamite & Gold is the videocassette title of the made-for-TV western comedy Where the Hell's That Gold? Willie Nelson plays...
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Boone
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1988
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The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie...
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1988
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Hawken (Peter Fonda) is an itinerant wanderer, currently traversing the West. Upon meeting Indian girl Serene Hadin, Hawken...
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1987
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Jack Elam enjoys a rare top-billed starring role in The Aurora Encounter. The heavily bearded Elam plays a 19th century Texas...
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Charlie
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1986
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Barry Bostwick is top-billed in the made-for-TV western Down the Long Hills, but the largest role in the film goes to...
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1986
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In this actioner, good ninjas bring an international diamond smuggler to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1986
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1984
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1983
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Set during Prohibition in a tiny Southern town filled with colorful characters, this all-star comedy follows the exploits of...
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1983
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One of the precious few westerns produced in the 1980s, Sacred Ground aspires to be a social statement. Tim McIntire plays a...
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1983
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Silent Sentence was originally released as A Knife for the Ladies. Either way, it was no cause for dancing in the streets....
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1983
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Jinxed is an apt name for this disastrous project which, sadly, turned out to be Don Siegel's final film. The film takes...
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Otto
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1982
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Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a...
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1981
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1981
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An ethnically mixed cast, and a curious political point of view, brings a little variety into a tired old formula. African...
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1980
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The presence of Paul Lynde, in a small role, reveals more about the quality and tone of this film than the three top names. A...
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1979
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1979
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The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers...
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1979
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When his father does not return from the Norse colony in Vinland (Greenland) for years and years, warrior son Thorvald (Lee...
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Death Dreamer
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1978
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This fun film is based upon the classic O. Henry tale about a bratty kid who kidnappers find to be more than they can handle,...
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1978
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Alternately titled Lacy and the Mississippi Queen and Kate and the Mississippi Queen, this made-for-TV Western stars...
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1978
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In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the...
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Rattlesnake
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1978
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Trapper Willis
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1977
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Joe Camp, the writer and director of Benji, tried his hand with another breed of animal in this comedy. A U.S. Cavalry unit...
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1976
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1976
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Designed for the regional family trade, Pony Express Rider is a fond harkback to the Saturday afternoon westerns of old....
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1976
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The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally...
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1976
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In this children's adventure, an 11-year-old Quaker youth sets across the prairies of Montana to avenge his parents' murder....
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1976
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It's still the same old story...but what a story. This umpteenth filmization of the classic Mark Twain novel stars...
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King
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1975
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1975
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The made-for-TV Shootout in a One-Dog Town is a rare foray into straight-faced adventure by "comedy western" specialist...
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1974
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This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this...
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1974
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The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949....
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1973
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A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between...
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1973
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Jarrod (Sheriff)
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1973
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Joshua Cabe (Buddy Ebsen) is a trapper in the old west. He hopes to set up his own homestead, but new government laws won't...
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1972
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It's hard to discern the filmmakers' true point of view on Hannie Caulder. On one hand, you've got the heavily somber story...
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Frank Clemens
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1971
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During the late '60s and early '70s, retired pro-football quarterback Joe Namath made a number of films. Last Rebel is one of...
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Matt Graves
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1971
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Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved...
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Thompson
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1971
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Jug May
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1971
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John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold...
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Phillips
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1970
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Jack Elam plays the title role in this Bonanza episode from December 20, 1970. Belying his nickname, Honest John is a...
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Honest John
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1970
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Hardin
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1970
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Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order...
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Kittrick
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1970
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James Garner is a nothing short of a delight in this western spoof that stands western clichés on their ears. The film takes...
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Jake
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1969
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One of the better and more diverting of ABC's first full season of made-for-television movies, The Over-the-Hill Gang was a...
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1969
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Carroll O'Connor was two years away from Archie Bunker when he signed for the minor Disney effort Ride a Northbound Horse....
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1969
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In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western...
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1968
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Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a...
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Norman
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1968
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Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams...
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1968
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In this western, a town sheriff contends with his reputation as the "fastest gun in the West." When a young gunslinger calls...
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Ernest Scarnes
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1967
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The rest of the Ponderosa men are astonished when Hoss Cartwright shows up reeking of cologne and dressed to the nines. It is...
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Buford Buckelew
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1967
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Preacher Weatherby
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1967
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A small town is terrorized by a grizzly bear in this uninspired western. Jim Cole {Clint Walker} must defend his inherited...
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1966
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Andrew V. McLaglen directs the Western drama The Rare Breed, based on the real-life introduction of English Hereford cattle...
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Deke Simons
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1966
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It looks like curtains for Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) when he manages to offend the notorious outlaw Sam Urp (played by...
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1965
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In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most...
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1963
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Astrologer Samuel H. Keel (Richard Boone) has predicted that someone named Seth Carter is destined to win a $500,000 lottery....
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1962
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Drug kingpin Louie Madikoff (Harold J. Stone) ends up half a million dollars in the red when several of his dope shipments...
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1962
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1961
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Originally titled "Nobody Here but Us Martians," this darkly comic Twilight Zone episode was a rewrite of (and vast...
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Avery
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1961
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1961
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Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) would love to nail mobster Brian O'Malley (David Brian) on tax-evasion and interstate-smuggling...
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1961
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Forced to shoot and kill tresspasser Jeb Hoad, Joe Cartwright is set upon by Jeb's wildcat daughter Willow (Anita Sands)....
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1961
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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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Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) dispatches his team to Calum City, a mob-controlled town 30 miles south of Chicago (and obviously...
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1960
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TV star Brett Halsey is the lead in The Girl in Lover's Lane. While drifting through a small town, Bix (Halsey) becomes...
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1960
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1960
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A well-dressed older man drives a car along the winding mountain road adjacent to the Grand Canyon. Another man lies in wait...
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1959
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Benjamin Coey (Mort Mills) insists that he is innocent of the murder of a man named Bryson, but the fact that he has molested...
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1959
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Cesare Danova and Jack Elam guest star in this episode of the popular The Rifleman television series. The town of North Fork...
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1958
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The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners...
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1958
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Based on a novel by Gil Brewer, Lure of the Swamp top-bills Marshall Thompson as a Florida swamp guide. Thompson is hired by...
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1957
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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1957
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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1957
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Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...
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1957
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Dragoon Wells Massacre is a topnotch western from the Allied Artists factory. Barry Sullivan stars as wanted killer Link...
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1957
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1956
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Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I....
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1956
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Thunder over Arizona was the second Republic feature to be lensed in the shortlived Naturama widescreen process. Running a...
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1956
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"The Silent Partner" is, along with John Ford's "Rookie of the Year", perhaps the best-known episode of the TV anthology...
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1955
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In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured...
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1955
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Bearing very little relation to the 1937 Paramount musical of the same name, Artists and Models is a lavish, girl-filled...
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1955
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By 1955, the original Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, had long since retired, and RKO Pictures tried several replacements....
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Burger
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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1955
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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This fourth film version of the warhorse Edward Knoblock theatrical piece Kismet was based on the Broadway musical version of...
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1955
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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by...
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1955
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1955
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Debra Paget displays as much epidermis as the 1954 censors would allow in the escapist adventure Princess of the Nile....
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1954
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1954
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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Yost
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the...
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1954
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Audie Murphy may have had top billing in Ride Clear of Diablo, but the film is bushwhacked and stolen by co-star Dan Duryea....
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1954
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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Technically a "B" western, Gun Belt is a notch or two above the norm. George Montgomery stars as former outlaw Billy Ringo,...
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1953
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Director Don Siegel keeps the events in Count the Hours moving so quickly that no one has time to ponder the film's huge...
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1953
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Ann Sheridan landed the leading role in Benedict Bogeaus Productions/RKO Radio's Appointment in Honduras as part of a legal...
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Castro
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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1953
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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1952
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Lure of the Wilderness is a remake of 1941's Swamp Water, with Walter Brennan repeating his role as a half-crazed fugitive...
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1952
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1952
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Lon McCallister stars in the Columbia "B-plus" western Montana Territory. McCallister plays deputy John Malvin, whose loyalty...
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1952
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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1952
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Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Richard Walton Tully's war-horse theatrical drama Bird of Paradise was filmed twice in Hollywood. This second version stars...
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The Trader
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1951
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A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot in this comedy. His recently paroled father, and his...
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1951
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The year is 1942. Ensign Chuck Palmer (Tyrone Power) is stranded in the Japanese-occupied Philippines after his ship is...
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The Speaker
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1950
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When there is a sudden outbreak of mysterious murders in the Texas Big Bend country, a young drifter new to the area, played...
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1950
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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Filmed in a two-tone process called Cinecolor, The Sundowners is a compact little western making good use of an old Hollywood...
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1950
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One Way Street stars James Mason in a variation of his Odd Man Out role. Mason plays Doc Matson, a gangland physician who has...
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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1950
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This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in...
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1949
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As directed by Ande Lamb, this vintage oater finds an upstanding southerner, 'Texas' Jim Lambert ('Texas' Jim Lewis),...
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1947
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