Set near the end of the bloody Indo-Chinese War in which the Vietnamese struggled to shuck off the yoke of French...
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1965
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One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of...
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1960
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A valuable Matisse is stolen from an art museum and replaced by a forgery. Museum curator June Sinclair (Mala Powers) and her...
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1960
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A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular...
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1959
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In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison....
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1956
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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1954
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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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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1950
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From Lippert Studios, the same company responsible for I Shot Jesse James, comes I Shot Billy the Kid. Those who know their...
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1950
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1948
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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1947
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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1943
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This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious...
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1942
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Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of...
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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1941
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1941
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The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles...
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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1941
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Jack Randall, a truly minor singing cowboy, stars in this low-budget oater from Metropolitan Pictures. Jack Rowan (Randall)...
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1940
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Despite the ridicule of the rest of the East Side Kids, Mugs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) aspires to be a jockey. He gets his chance...
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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No sooner had the second of Monogram's "Range Riders" westerns hit the screens than the third entry, West of Pinto Basin, was...
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1940
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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The fifth of eight Metropolitan Bob Steele B-Westerns, The Pal From Texas featured the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to...
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1939
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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1939
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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The Three Mesquiteers ride again in the economical Republic sagebrusher Purple Vigilantes. The Mesquiteers in question are...
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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Davy Crockett
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1937
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Robert Allen isn't particularly "reckless" in this rather pedestrian Western, which had the gall to cast the non-actor in...
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Chet
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore...
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1937
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Movie trends always come in cycles: in 1937, motorboat melodramas were briefly the rage. In Columbia's Motor Madness,...
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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Directed by William Berke (under the pseudonym of "Lester Williams"), Gun Grit was the last of four above-average B-Western...
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1936
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Columbia Pictures' newest cowboy hero, Charles Starrett, played just that in this fanciful Western which teamed him for the...
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1936
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This interesting low-budget Western was advertized as "A lightning trigger action drama of the glorious west .. packed with...
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1936
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A punch drunk prize-fighter, Wildcat Saunders (Jack Perrin) travels to a western ranch for a little rest and relaxation with...
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1936
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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1936
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The second of former silent screen star Jack Perrin's "Blue Ribbon" Westerns, Hair-Trigger Casey deftly straddled the fence...
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1936
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In his penultimate Western for poverty row company Reliable Pictures, Jack Perrin starred as Texas Jack Carroll, a newcomer...
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1935
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Silent screen Western star Jack Perrin plays a somewhat naive cowboy hired to innocently front the nefarious schemes of a...
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1935
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The final of six Jack Perrin Westerns produced by poverty row company Reliable Pictures, this film featured Perrin as an...
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1935
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1934
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Showmen's Productions, a miniscule poverty-row firm, issued its one-and-only release The Big Race in 1934. Heading the cast...
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1934
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A potentially good idea -- mixing Western hi-jinks with horror film elements -- was wasted on this impoverished 20 minute...
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1934
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1934
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Three outlaws go straight in order to protect a young girl from her unscrupulous guardian in this low-budget Western, the...
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1934
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A pretty Mexican dancer, Tina Menard, is actually the lead character in this low-budget Western ostensibly starring...
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1934
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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Filmed at picturesque Lake Tahoe, NV, this ultra-low-budget dog melodrama starred one of Rin-Tin-Tin's better successors,...
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Sgt. Kincaid
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1933
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The first in a series of seven "Bud'n Ben" Western "featurettes," this 31 minutes oater introduced Ben Corbett and...
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1933
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Future producer Wallace MacDonald earned a starring role in this low-budget western based on an original story by veteran...
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1932
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Filmed on location at Lone Pine, CA, this above average Ken Maynard oater features the veteran cowboy star in the title role,...
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Curly
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1932
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A Texas Ranger (Rex Lease) searches for the killer of his sister in this cheap and often incomprehensible Western produced by...
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1932
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Having signed for eight Westerns with poverty row entrepreneur E.W. Hammons, Ken Maynard went on to deliver a series of solid...
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1932
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Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie...
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1932
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1932
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Brawny western hero Jack Perrin certainly deserved better vehicles than such dreck as The Kid From Arizona. Perrin plays a...
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1931
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One-legged Western maverick Robert J. Horner came up with yet another loser in this dead-on-arrival oater starring silent...
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1931
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Yet another little indiscretion from Gower Gulch producer Robert J. Horner, this no-budget Western starred former silent...
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1931
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Produced by Trem Carr, this enjoyable B-Western featured the strapping Tom Tyler, a cowboy performer who historically worked...
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1931
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Wild West Whoopee was produced and directed by the redoubtable Robert J. Horner, whose early-talkie westerns ranged from...
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1931
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1930
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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Jack Saunders
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1930
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Saucer-eyed silent-screen cowboy Jack Perrin and his magnificent horse, Starlight, star in this ramshackle early sound...
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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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Sheriff Johnson
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1930
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Silent-screen hero Jack Perrin and his handsome mount Starlight headlined this low-budget oater from shoestring company Big 4...
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1930
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Also-ran silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin starred in this minor western from the Universal assembly line. Perrin is cast as a...
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Parson Jed Campbell
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1929
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1929
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The surly but magnificent Rex the Wonder Horse was top-billed in Universal's Hoofbeats of Vengeance. As had been the case in...
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Sgt. Jack Gordon
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1929
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Jack Merritt
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1929
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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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Larry Withers
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1929
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Based on Zane Grey's Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern...
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1928
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1928
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Although not quite the epic its title suggested, this 10 chapter Western serial from genre specialist Mascot was certainly...
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1928
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Two Outlaws was apparently a follow-up to the low-budget but high-grossing western Guardians of the West. Once again, human...
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1928
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Aided by his handsome mount Starlight and faithful pooch Rex, cowboy Perrin seeks revenge for the murder of his sister, a...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Per its title, Fire and Steel is set in a busy steel plant in an industrial town. Steelworker hero Jack Perrin is in love...
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1927
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This silent gangster film plays like a B-Western and was actually made by specialists of that genre. There is even a...
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Tom Kennedy
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1926
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Produced by George Blaisdell for W. Ray Johnston's low-budget Rayart Productions (the forerunner of Monogram Pictures, this...
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1926
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A cowboy, his horse and a clever pooch play the key roles in this average western from low-budget western factory Rayart....
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Don Brandon
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1926
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Perhaps the best known film produced by the little poverty row company Goodwill, this is a typical 1920s haunted house...
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1926
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One of the silent screen's better also-ran cowboys, Jack Perrin starred in this entertaining oater about a drifter who...
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Jack Wiley
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1925
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Although Jack Perrin had been in films for over a decade and had been playing leading roles since 1919, indie film company...
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Wes Channing
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1925
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A millionaire's son once again toughens up on a western ranch in this low-budget silent western produced by veteran director...
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1925
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Billed as a "melodrama of the Tennessee hills," this low-budget Aywon release read like a Western and did indeed star cowboy...
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1924
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This otherwise fairly average silent western contains a sequence as racist in its own seemingly innocuous way as anything...
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Dan Dawson
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1924
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French actress Andree Lafayette made this American film after her success in Trilby. It was a domestic drama which was...
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Jack Wainwright
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1924
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Producer-director Harry Webb was the culprit of this minor silent western that definitely broke no new ground. Saucer-eyed...
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Jack Burroughs
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1924
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This extremely rare silent Western was produced by A.B. Maescher and features Jack Perrin as Tom Taylor, a mining engineer...
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Tom Taylor
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1923
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Before her nasally voice was exposed, making her a more appropriate choice as a working class girl, Marie Prevost achieved...
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1922
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This pleasant little programmer features minor Universal star Gladys Walton. Walton is Maisie O'Day, who lives in New York...
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Tom Gilroy
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1922
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Minor Universal star Gladys Walton plays an especially pitiful character in this subpar programmer. Mamie Judd (Walton) is a...
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Herman Jenks
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1922
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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Lt. Paul Mack
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1921
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A seafaring action melodrama based on a 1905 novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Partners of the Tide starred future cowboy hero...
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1921
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Based on The White Peacock Feathers by Du Vernet Rabell, this minor melodrama from the assembly line at Universal starred...
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Gordon Tolbut
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1921
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Jonathan Meek (Jack Perrin) is the new minister in the straight-laced New England hamlet of Pleasanton. The circus has come...
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1920
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After going to school in America Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) returns to her Fiji home to take care of the rubber...
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1920
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1919
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