Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Just before achieving TV stardom as The Sheriff of Cochise, John Bromfield headed the cast of Frontier Gambler. Coleen Gray...
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1956
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Dale Robertson stars as the Son of Sinbad in this tongue-in-cheek Arabian Nights romp. Hoping to rescue Bagdad from the...
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1955
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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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The Metropolis underworld is informed of a remarkable plastic surgeon (John Crawford) who is able to transform the faces of...
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1953
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1953
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In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude...
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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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Tim Holt's first western release for 1952 was Trail Guide. Tim (Holt) and his perennial saddle pal Chito Rafferty...
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1952
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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1951
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This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern...
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1951
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A series of prospector murders near an abandoned mine are investigated by a lawman in this exciting western. ~ Rovi...
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1951
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Kilborn
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1950
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Don Barry stars as Texas Ranger Bob Standish, sworn to avenge his brother's death in Border Rangers. To achieve his goal,...
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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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The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up...
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1950
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1950
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In this suspenseful espionage actioner, the US radar defense system is about to be breached by enemy saboteurs and now only...
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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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Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who...
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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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Lash LaRue essays a dual role in the 1949 western Outlaw Country. LaRue plays himself (or at least his screen self) and an...
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1949
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1949
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Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film...
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1949
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The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold,...
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1948
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1948
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Based on a popular comic strip, this 15 episode Columbia chapterplay produced by legendary cheapskate Sam Katzman (aka...
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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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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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1947
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Whip-wielding westerner Lash LaRue closes out his 1947 schedule with Cheyenne Takes Over. Once again teamed with comical...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here:...
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1947
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of...
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Spike
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1946
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In most of his Columbia westerns, Charles Starrett simply was the Durango Kid, a mysterious masked do-gooder who pretends to...
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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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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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A would-be nightclub entertainer finds her life jeopardized after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder while...
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1946
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Like Captain Midnight before him, Hop Harrigan came to the serial screens courtesy of Columbia Pictures; and, also like the...
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1946
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Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other...
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1945
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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1945
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1945
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That veteran reprobate Roy Barcroft plays yet another outlaw in The Cherokee Flash, a perfectly acceptable B-Western from...
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1945
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Based on the popular comic strip by Dale Messick, this Sam Katzman-produced Columbia serial starred the beautiful and...
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1945
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In this western, a wagonmaster stops a greedy newspaper editor from buying up an entire territory. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1945
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In this western, a courageous cowboy stops the land-grabbing conspiracy of a corrupt banker. The banker was planning to wait...
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1944
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Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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Popular latter-day serial queen Linda Stirling starred in the title role in this well-made 12 chapter serial produced by...
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1944
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Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female...
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1944
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In this western, Billy the Kid must convince Fuzzy not to leave the trail. Fuzzy tries anyway and buys a small-town...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe is back as Billy Carson, aka Billy the Kid, in the PRC western The Devil Riders. In this one, Billy and his...
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Jim Higgins
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1944
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An above-average entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series, the enigmatically titled Mystery Man opens with...
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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William Boyd once again dons the disguise of a fop in this average entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" western...
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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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This PRC "Billy the Kid" western once more teams Buster Crabbe, as Billy Carson, with Al St.John, as perennial sidekick Fuzzy...
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1944
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Rustler's Hideout is more of the same from PRC's resident cowboy stars Buster Crabbe and Al St. John. Cast once again as...
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Harry Stanton
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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The Fighting Valley is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" westerns, with Dave O'Brien, Jim Newell and Guy Wilkerson as the...
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1943
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A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of...
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1943
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This diverting cinematic time capsule pits the hard-ridin' Range Busters against a Nazi spy ring. The Busters are played on...
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1943
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In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid...
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1943
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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1943
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1943
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The Range Busters bust the range once more in Monogram's Land of Hunted Men. This time around, the star trio consists of...
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1943
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1942
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Morgan
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1942
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When the order of the Western frontier is threatened by bandits, cowboys are the only measure of justice in the area. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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In this western, two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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Jack Greenhalgh's murky photography did not enhance this low-budget "Billy the Kid" series entry, in which a falsely accused...
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1942
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Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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Also known as Billy the Kid in Law and Order, this PRC sagebrusher stars Buster Crabbe as Billy "The Kid" Carson and...
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1942
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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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1942
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Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning...
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1942
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In this western, Billy the Kid confronts an evil con artist who has been trying to gull two children out of their inherited...
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1942
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In this episode of the "Billy the Kid" series of westerns, outlaw Billy (Buster Crabbe) is mistakenly appointed Sage Valley's...
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1942
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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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1941
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Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders"...
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1941
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The paying customers got two Donald Barrys for the price of one in this typically well-mounted Republic Western directed with...
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1941
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Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding...
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1941
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Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the...
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1941
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Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western,...
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1941
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In his sixth of nine Monogram releases of 1940, Tex Ritter played a U.S. Marshal coming to the aid of a beleaguered...
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1940
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Monogram's answer to Republic's Gene Autry, Tex Ritter was never successful in his choice of sidekicks. In Pals of the Silver...
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1940
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Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush...
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1940
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Sherman Scott is credited as director of Billy the Kid's Gun Justice, but you can't fool us: Scott is none other than the...
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1940
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1940
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Frontier Crusader was Tim McCoy's first western vehicle for the newly-formed Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). The star...
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1940
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Every time that sinister Oriental megalomaniac Dr. Fu Manchu is ready to kill, sounds of strange drums can be heard coming...
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1940
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Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as...
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1940
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Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series hopscotched all over the calendar, with some entries taking place in the...
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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The second entry PRC's "Billy the Kid" series was 1940's Billy the Kid in Texas. The titular Kid is played by Bob Steele, who...
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1940
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The war between cattle ranchers and sheepmen once again took center stage in this low-budget Western starring former opera...
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1939
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) once again embarks on a mild romance with a mature woman in this average Western filmed at...
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1939
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Forever switching its time-frame from past to present, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series returned to a contemporary...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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The first of four Fred Scott singing Westerns produced by C.C. Burr, Code of the Fearless was like all thirteen Scott...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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At the end of his long association with Hal Roach, comedian Stan Laurel produced three singing Westerns featuring operatic...
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1939
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1939
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In 1824, Benito Juarez (Carlton Young), the president of the new Mexican Republic, worries that vitally important gold...
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1939
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Though it probably isn't saying much, Flaming Lead is the best of Ken Maynard's starring vehicles for low-budget Colony...
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1939
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Having eschewed music interludes in his previous Western effort, Gun Packer, Jack Randall returned to warbling a tune or two...
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1938
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In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete...
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Bart
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1938
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Directed competently by the veteran William Nigh, this ultra low-budget Western from diminutive Crescent Pictures Corp....
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1938
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In his second music Western for Monogram, Tex Ritter had the dubious honor of being accompanied by hillbilly acts Louise...
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1938
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Old-timer Hobart Bosworth heads the cast of the independently produced Wolves of the Sea. Bosworth is cast as Captain Wolf...
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1938
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When an innocent man (Kermit Maynard) is suspected of stealing cattle, he must struggle to clear his name. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
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1938
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In this crime drama, an innocent wife has no idea that her husband makes his living by hijacking trucks. When she finds out...
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1938
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Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who...
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1938
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Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as...
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1938
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Phantom Ranger was the last of a quartet of Tim McCoy westerns produced by Maurice Conn for Monogram release. The star is...
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Bud
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1938
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The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's...
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1938
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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Featuring the husband-and-wife team of Jack Randall and Louise Stanley, this lukewarm Monogram Western eschewed the musical...
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1938
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One of the timelier Three Mesquiteers westerns, Gunsmoke Ranch was inspired by the Ohio and Mississippi river floodings of...
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1937
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Scarlotti
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1937
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Reed
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1937
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A disgruntled ranger quits his job after a crooked state's attorney manages to get a case of murder thrown out of court in...
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Kemper
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1937
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Each of Bob Allen's six westerns for Columbia had the words "Ranger" or "Range" in the title, and Law of the Ranger was no...
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Nash
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1937
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Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by...
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1937
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Russell Gleason, the personable and talented son of actors James and Lucille Gleason, is afforded a rare starring role in the...
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1937
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A courageous Texas Ranger leaves his job to mediate a violent, long-standing dispute between his family and that of his...
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Martin
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1937
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The Three Mesquiteers are back for more action in this well-photographed Republic western. This time, heroes Stoney Brooke...
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the less-popular but arguably more talented brother of cowboy star Ken Maynard, heads the cast of Roaring Six...
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Mileaway
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1937
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Another good entry in Warner Bros' Dick Foran western series, Blazing Sixes casts Foran as Red, an undercover federal agent....
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Jim Hess
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1937
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The third of four Fred Scott Westerns produced by C.C. Burr for Spectrum Pictures, Two Gun Troubadour was rather grim for...
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Bill Barton
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1937
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In this western, a citified writer of pulp westerns decides to head into the West to experience it first hand....
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1937
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1937
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In this war film, set in 1817, an American Army captain searches throughout Spanish-ruled Florida for his brother who has...
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1937
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1937
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To those well versed in the Bob Steelewesterns of the 1930s, it's hardly surprising to reveal that the plot of Arizona...
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1937
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Nick
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1937
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A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam...
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1937
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Hopalong Cassidy's young sidekick, Johnny Nelson, is falsely accused of robbing the Bar 20 in this the fourth installment of...
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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1936
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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1936
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The first of nine Bill Carson Westerns produced by Sigmund Neufeld and starring the stalwart Tim McCoy, Lightnin' Bill Carson...
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1936
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1936
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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1936
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In yet another unusual Western from short-lived Puritan Pictures, Tim McCoy is a Wild West performer in a Manhattan...
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Single-Shot Smith
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1936
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In the second of producer Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, Deputy Sheriff Cassidy (William Boyd) promises El Toro...
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1936
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Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...
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1936
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Filmed in two weeks at Red Rock Canyon and Lone Pine, California, Hop-Along Cassidy was the opener of one of the best -- and...
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1935
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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1933
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1927
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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1926
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