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2003
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This made-for-TV movie, one of a series that brought back James Arness in the role of Marshall Matt Dillon from the...
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1994
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James Arness made his first appearance as Marshal Matt Dillon in eight years in the 1993 TV movie Gunsmoke: The Long Ride....
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Executive Producer, Matt Dillon
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1992
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When retired lawman Matt Dillon takes off hunting for some stolen cattle, he and his daughter discover a vigilante gang and...
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Matt Dillon
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1992
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Matt Dillon is the only one available from the series in this movie. This time he discovers that he has a daughter he never...
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Matt Dillon
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1990
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1988
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James Arness returns to the role of US marshal Matt Dillon after a twelve-year absence in the made-for-TV Gunsmoke: Return to...
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Matt Dillon
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1987
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The valor and anguish of the Alamo is resurrected in this '80s effort that features a considerably accomplished cast....
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1987
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The Macahans is a two-hour TV movie utilizing characters originally created for the 1962 Cinerama extravaganza How the West...
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Zeb Macahan
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1976
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The record-breaking 20th season of Gunsmoke also proved to be the series' last stand--not because it had lost its huge fan...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1974
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That Gunsmoke was the longest-running dramatic series in TV history was common knowledge by the time the program entered its...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1973
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With the cancellation of Bonanza in December of 1972, Gunsmoke remained standing as the last of the "golden age" TV westerns...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1972
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Seventeen seasons and 540 episodes since it burst on the TV scene as the first truly "adult" western back in 1955, Gunsmoke...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1971
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Having twice "cheated the hangman" by eluding CBS' efforts to cancel the series, the venerable western Gunsmoke was still...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1970
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Rescued from cancellation when it was moved from Saturdays to Mondays during its thirteen season, the venerable TV western...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1969
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Despite stiff competition from NBC's top-rated Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the venerable CBS western Gunsmoke continued to...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1968
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Rescued from cancellation by an eleventh-hour decision from CBS president William Paley, Gunsmoke entered its 13th season in...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1967
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Beginning with its 12th season, Gunsmoke switched from black-and-white to color, one of the last major network series to do...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1966
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By the time Gunsmoke entered its record-breaking eleventh season in the fall of 1965, the series had past beyond the realm of...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1965
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The fact that Gunsmoke is able to enter its 10th season despite ever-descending ratings is a tribute not only to the series'...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1964
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Entering its ninth season on CBS, Gunsmoke has already made history as the first TV western series to surpass 300 episodes,...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1963
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The decision to expand Gunsmoke from 30 to 60 minutes during its seventh season may have made sense insofar as offering more...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1962
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1961 was a year of transition for Gunsmoke. The radio version of the popular series, which had been running since 1952, was...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1961
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Having ridden high in the saddle as America's top-rated TV series for the past three years Gunsmoke managed to retain this...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1960
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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Gunsmoke's fifth season on CBS marked the third consecutive year that the series ranked as America's top-rated television...
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Producer, Matt Dillon
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1959
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Having ended its third season as America's top-rated TV series, Gunsmoke managed to retain that title throughout Season Four,...
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Matt Dillon
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1958
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Two years into Gunsmoke, James Arness took time out of his busy schedule to star in the medium-budget western Arizona...
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Rem Anderson
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1957
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After a shaky start opposite NBC's George Gobel Show during its first season, TV's foremost "adult" western Gunsmoke steadily...
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Matt Dillon
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1957
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Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling...
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Joel Kingdon
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1956
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Season Two of Gunsmoke introduces the series' now-legendary opening sequence, as Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) shoots it...
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1956
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Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as...
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1955
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The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on...
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Marshal Matt Dillon
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1955
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Yvonne de Carlo is at her most smokily exotic in the Republic "special" Flame of the Islands. Filmed on location in the...
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1955
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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1955
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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1954
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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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Robert Graham
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1954
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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McMullen
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1953
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Hondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least,...
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Lennie
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1953
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1953
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Lone Hand benefits immensely from the genuine Colorado locations seen throughout. Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) and his son...
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1953
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This western stars Sterling Hayden as a man who innocently tends to the needs of a mysterious stranger. When it turns out...
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George Redfield
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1952
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Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's...
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Mal Baxter
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1952
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June Allyson portrays real-life doctor Emily Dunning in this respectful biopic. Emily chooses a medical career despite...
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the...
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1952
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Rod Cameron heads the cast of the Monogram "B-plus" western Cavalry Scout. Cameron plays army scout Kirby Frye, who has been...
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Barth
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1951
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The scene is a distant Arctic research station, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the...
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1951
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A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin. A relatively...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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Veteran cinematographer-turned-director Norman Dawn calls the shots in Two Lost Worlds. Set in the Australian colony of...
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1950
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Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey...
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1950
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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1950
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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1950
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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1949
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Second-echelon leading man Don Castle (later a TV producer) stars in yet another Sol M. Wurtzel production, Roses Are Red....
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Peter Holstrom
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1947
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