Jim Walker Rory Calhoun is a hero who fights Indians and crooks who plan a series of stagecoach robberies in this routine...
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1966
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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1965
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In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the...
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1965
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While enmeshed in a vicious proxy war with business rival Warner Griffith (played by former western star Johnny Mack Brown),...
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1958
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To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass...
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1953
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Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny...
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Johnny
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown...
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1952
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As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man...
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Johnny
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady,...
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1951
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Tall (and a bit heavy) in the saddle, Johnny Mack Brown stars in Blazing Bullets. Too long in tooth to pass a romantic lead,...
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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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Though ready for release in 1951, Whistling Hills ended up as western star Johnny Mack Brown's first entry for 1952. This...
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Johnny
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1951
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As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent...
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Johnny
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1951
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Johnny Mack Brown closed out his 1951 manifest of "B"-westerns with Montana Desperado. The story concerns a fierce struggle...
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Dave Borden
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1951
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1951
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Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time,...
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Johnny
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1951
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the rubber-stamp western Over the Border. Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his...
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Johnny Mack
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown follows his tried-and-true western formula in Law of the Panhandle. This time, U.S. Marshal Brown backs up...
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Johnny Mack
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1950
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Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer...
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Keown
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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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Johnny
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1950
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the Monogram oater Outlaw Gold. The plot is motivated by revenge: sentenced to five years in...
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Dave Willis
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1950
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1949
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Johnny Mack Brown's first starring western for 1950 is cut from the same cloth as his 1949 releases. Brown's principal...
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Johnny
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1949
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Johnny
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1949
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By the time Law of the West came out in 1949, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown westerns were beginning to all look alike. Here as...
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Johnny Mack
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1949
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Sheriff Ball
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1949
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Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series galloped ever onward in Hidden Danger. This time, Johnny and his saddle pal Banty...
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Johnny
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1949
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Johnny
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1949
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1948
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"Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of...
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Johnny
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1948
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Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a...
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1948
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1948
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In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman...
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1948
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A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government...
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1948
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In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Sheriff of Medicine Bow is one of the slower-moving Johnny Mack Brown westerns for Monogram. Once, again, Brown is teamed...
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1948
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Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where...
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Johnny
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1948
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1947
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After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace...
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Johnny
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1947
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One film critic compared Monogram's eight Johnny Mack Brown westerns of 1947 to strawberries: it was up to the viewer sort...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by...
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Johnny Hudson
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1947
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Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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Trailing Danger is one of Johnny Mack Brown's cookie-cutter Monogram westerns. Once again, Brown is teamed with grizzled...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty...
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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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Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram,...
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1946
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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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Nevada
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1946
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In one of his better Monogram Westerns, Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a crooked saloon owner with more than one murder on...
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1946
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Monogram added a bit of music to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown oater, courtesy of former star Smith Ballew, who...
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1946
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Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran...
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Steve Garner
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton once again play undercover U.S. marshals Nevada McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins. This time,...
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1945
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Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack...
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Nevada
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1945
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Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from...
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1945
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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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John Poore
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1945
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A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada...
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Nevada
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1945
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The trail provides great adventure for a cowboy in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1945
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Though it wasn't the first of the batch, The Stranger from Pecos would have been an excellent starting point for Johnny Mack...
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Nevada
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1945
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Nevada
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1944
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Nevada
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1944
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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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Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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Tex
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1944
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Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada...
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Nevada
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1944
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Nevada
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1944
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1944
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Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is...
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Buck Brandon
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1943
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In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land...
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Rocky Morgan
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1943
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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Wade Benson
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1943
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In his first of 20 "Nevada McKenzie" Westerns for Monogram Pictures, brawny Johnny Mack Brown plays the title role, a drifter...
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1943
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The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at...
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Blaze Barker
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Dusty Gardner, spokesmen for a group of hard-working cattlemen. As Gardner and his compatriots...
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Dusty Gardner
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1943
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Though the film's title is The Texas Kid, the film's star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cowboy named Nevada. The titular "kid",...
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Nevada
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1943
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U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns...
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Nevada Jack McKenzie
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western...
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1943
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It should be obvious to fans of husky, muscle-bound cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown that he does not play the title role in...
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Neal Wallace
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1942
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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"Silver Jim" Donovan
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1942
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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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Bill
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1942
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Stagecoach Buckaroo was Johnny Mack Brown's final Universal western of the 1941-42 season. A gang of holdup men has been...
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Steve
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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Alabam
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1942
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It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented...
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Steve Collins
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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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Jim Mallory
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1942
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Arizona Cyclone is usually cited as the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series, if only because of the...
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Tom
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a...
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Steve
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1941
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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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Brand
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown from Alabama stretches his acting range to play the Man From Montana. The old "divide and conquer" western...
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Bob Dawson
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1941
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Cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown launched his third season at Universal with the above-average entry The Masked Rider. Moseying...
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Larry
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1941
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In this western, a town finds itself under the tyrannical control of a shady sheriff. He is usurped by an honest outside...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil...
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Buck Halliday,Gil Brady
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1940
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Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of...
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Leo Jameson
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1940
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In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that...
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Bill Ralston
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1940
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Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett,...
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Chip Bennett
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1940
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In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things...
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Jim Reardon
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1940
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West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush...
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Jim Bannister
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1940
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Inspired no doubt by the success of Republic Pictures' singing cowboys, Universal dragged Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders...
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Cal Sheridan
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1940
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Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures....
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Steve
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1940
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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Jeff McLeod
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1939
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With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal....
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1939
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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A partial remake of Universal's Heroes of the West (1932), this 15 chapter serial was based on pulp writer Peter B. Kyne's...
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1938
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in this middling western entry. The former high-school football hero plays a Texas Ranger, who early...
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Jeff
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1937
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Kentucky
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1937
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Boothill Brigade stars Johnny Mack Brown as frontier do-gooder Lon Cardigan. Villainous land-grabber John Porter...
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Lon Cardigan
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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Tom Fillmore
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1937
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In this western, a tough hombre begins stalking his brother's killer. He shows up during a range war and because he is a...
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Dude Ramsey
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1937
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Acting upon the belief that he accidentally murdered his best pal, a gunman swears never to draw his weapon again. ~ Jason...
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1937
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Jeff
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1937
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No, we don't get to see Johnny Mack Brown's mother in labor in A Lawman is Born. Brown is "born" as a star packer when he's...
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Tom Mitchell
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1937
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1937
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Bar Z Bad Men is a slick 1930s oater showcasing Johnny Mack Brown. Per the title, Brown signs on as ranchhand at the Bar Z....
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1937
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This above-average Johnny Mack Brown Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures features the bizarre spectacle of...
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The Dog Town Kid
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1936
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Directed by former film editor S. Roy Luby, this above-average mystery-western starred Johnny Mack Brown as Billy Donovan, a...
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Billy Donovan
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1936
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An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in...
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1936
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1936
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Produced by low-budget company Supreme Pictures (which weren't), this middling B-western was saved somewhat by its personable...
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Dan Doran
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1936
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Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father in this...
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1936
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1935
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Rustlers of Red Dog is a serial that was screened in 12 installments. The Western adventure features many of the genre's...
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1935
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In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of...
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Johnny Hume
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1935
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In his second Western for Poverty Row producer A.W. Hackel, former football star Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of both his...
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Johnny Wellington
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1935
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1935
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Invincible Studios' Cross Streets is something of a watershed film, providing leading roles for fading silent stars...
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Adam Blythe
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1934
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Brooks Claybourne
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1934
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Steve Wayne
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1934
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Never mind the "limited" title: There are plenty of honeymooners on the ocean liner which serves as the setting for this...
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1934
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1934
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Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
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Duke
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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Cooper
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1933
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Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to...
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Jim Wilson
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1933
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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Alan Barry
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1933
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In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild...
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1933
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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Kirby Tornell
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1932
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in Flames as a cocksure young firefighter named Charlie. After rescuing a cat from a burning...
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Charlie
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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Wally Clark
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1932
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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Hank Rogers
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1931
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1931
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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Berk Jarvis
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1931
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Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s....
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Bill Talbot
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1931
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with...
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Paul Whalen
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1930
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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Billy Bonney
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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Larry
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1930
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1929
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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Tommy Hewlett
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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Barry Holmes
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1929
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That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named...
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Dan
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1929
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Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already...
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Michael Jeffery
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1929
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The 1928 Fox comedy-drama Square Crooks was based on James P. Judge's stage play of the same name (back then, "square" meant...
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1928
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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David Furness
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1928
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1928
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Madge Bellamy stars as Nancy Woods, the secretary to a successful divorce lawyer. Soured on matrimony by the examples set in...
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Stockney Webb
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1928
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Flower-shop clerk Madge Norton (Madge Bellamy) loses her job because she won't fool around with her boss. Figuring that the...
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Bradley Lane
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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Steve Crandall
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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Ben Black
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1928
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Directed by Cabanne, himself a graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy, this is a schmaltzy propaganda film aggrandizing the male...
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1928
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1927
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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1927
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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Bob Dixon
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1927
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One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
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1927
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