This cinematic biography of movie legend John Wayne features a wealth of clips from his most iconic performances, tracing...
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2012
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Frequent Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Entertainment Tonight contributor Rona Barrett serves as the subject of...
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2008
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2006
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Join host Leonard Maltin as he explores the early life of John Wayne (born as Marion Michael Morrison) as a college football...
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1993
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This tribute to John Wayne features some of the greatest action scenes from various films. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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1990
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This is a tribute to the movie-making industry, with many film clips of, and much commentary about, several decades of...
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1988
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1987
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1987
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This program includes a parade of jingles and authentic advertisements for cigarettes - all from the carefree days when...
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1987
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This documentary concerns the legion of B-westerns made from the end of the silent era to the present, including stock...
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1984
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This documentary video covers the life and films of John Wayne. ~ Rovi...
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1984
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Enjoy this collection of western painting by Olaf Weighorst in this video profiling the painter's life. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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The Communist threat and its zenith in Vietnam is the focus of this video hosted by John Wayne with interviews of Lowell...
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Narrator
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1976
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About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books...
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John Bernard Books
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1976
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The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial...
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1976
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John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn...
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Rooster Cogburn
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1975
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This offbeat John Wayne vehicle casts the Duke as Detective Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American detective at large in London....
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Jim Brannigan
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1975
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Undoubtedly having second thoughts after turning down Dirty Harry, John Wayne showed up in 1974 in his own "maverick cop"...
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McQ
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1974
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The action never stops in this western, which has a surprise ending. Ann-Margret stars as Mrs. Lowe, a widow who wishes to...
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Lane
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1973
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John Wayne plays a lawman who has to deal with the problems of fatherhood in a big way in Cahill: United States Marshall....
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J.D. Cahill
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1973
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of John Ford. Included are excerpts from:...
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1973
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After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to...
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Host
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1973
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In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a...
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Wil Anderson
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1972
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The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The...
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1972
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This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young...
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1971
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Jacob McCandles
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1971
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John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold...
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Cord McNally
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1970
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Originally aired on NBC under the title Swing Out, Sweet Land, this 1970 television special features movie legend John Wayne...
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Host/Narrator
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1970
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1970
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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John Chisum
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1970
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In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him...
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Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
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1969
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This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by...
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Col. John Henry Thomas
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1969
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The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in...
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Director, Producer, Col. Mike Kirby
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1968
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Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires....
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Chance Buckman
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1968
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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder...
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Taw Jackson
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1967
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Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The...
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Cole Thornton
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1967
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Released theatrically in Europe, Hondo and the Apaches was stitched together from the first two episodes of the Hondo TV...
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Producer
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1967
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A tribe of Indians, led by the financially savvy Chief Running Wolf (Stanley Waxman), has laid claim to a huge chunk of the...
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1967
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John Wayne, who'd made two unforgettable guest appearances on I Love Lucy, is back in the saddle for this hilarious Lucy Show...
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Himself
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1966
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Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American...
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1966
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Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to...
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John Elder
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1965
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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Capt. Rockwell Torrey
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1965
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Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
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Matt Masters
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1964
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George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory,...
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George Washington McLintock
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1963
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John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the...
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Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan
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1963
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
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1962
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Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks...
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Sean Mercer
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
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1962
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1962
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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Tom Doniphon
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1962
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Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character...
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Capt. Jake Cutter
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1961
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John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim...
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Director, Producer, Col. David Crockett
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1960
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Those familiar only with Johnny Horton's song hit North to Alaska might not be aware that the song came equipped with a...
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Sam McCord
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1960
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Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General...
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Col. John Marlowe
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1959
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Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff...
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Sheriff John T. Chance
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1959
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Joe January
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1958
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John Wayne's only collaboration with director John Huston turned out to be a major career misstep for both men. Barbarian and...
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Townsend Harris
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1958
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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Col. Shannon
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1957
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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Frank W. "Spig" Wead
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1957
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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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Producer
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1957
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I Married a Woman was tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel....
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Himself
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1956
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The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle...
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Producer
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1956
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Temujin
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1956
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If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle...
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Ethan Edwards
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1956
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John Wayne teaches those dirty Commies yet another lesson in Blood Alley. Wayne plays a veteran seaman who comes to the aid...
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Director, Producer, Capt. Tom Wilder
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1955
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1955
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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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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Capt. Karl Erlich
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1955
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In the conclusion of a two-part story set in Hollywood, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) has managed to mollify the management of Grauman's...
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Himself
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1955
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Mike Cronin
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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Producer, Dan Roman
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1954
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In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of...
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Producer
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1954
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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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Producer, Hondo Lane
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1953
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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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Producer, Capt. Dooley
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1953
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Producer
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1953
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"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but...
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Steve Aloysius Williams
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1953
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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Sean Thornton
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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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Producer, Big Jim McLain
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1952
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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Cmdr. "Duke" Gifford
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1951
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star...
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Maj. Dan Kirby
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1951
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Director Budd Boetticher's love of bullfighting comes to the fore in this film drama, directed and co-written by Boetticher...
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Producer
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1950
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See the segments which make movies action classics in this compilation ~ Rovi...
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1950
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen...
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Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
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1950
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," this film stars John Wayne as Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days...
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Capt. Nathan Brittles
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1949
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From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne),...
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Sgt. John M. Stryker
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1949
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Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long...
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Producer, John Breen
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1949
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John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a...
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Tom Dunson
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1948
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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Capt. Ralls
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1948
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men...
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Robert Marmaduke Hightower
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1948
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Capt. Kirby York
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1948
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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Johnny Munroe
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1947
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One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced....
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Producer, Quirt Evans
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1947
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Technically a reedit of the 1933 serial The Three Musketeers, this 1946 feature stars The Duke himself, John Wayne, as Tom,...
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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Rusty Thomas
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1946
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Duke Fergus
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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Col. Joe Madden
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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Lt. J.G. "Rusty" Ryan
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1945
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In this western, a Montana cattle rancher travels to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast and ends up falling in love...
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1945
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John Devlin
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1945
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The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom...
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Wedge Donovan
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1944
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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Dan Somers
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1943
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Duke Hudkins
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1943
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Capt. Jack Stuart
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1942
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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Roy Glennister
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1942
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Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham
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1942
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The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire...
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Jim Gordon
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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Tom Craig
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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Pat Talbot
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1942
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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Young Matt Matthews
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1941
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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John Reynolds
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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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Rocklin
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1941
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Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion...
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Lynn Hollister
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1941
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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Jack Morgan
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1941
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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Ole Olsen
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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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Bob Setton
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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Lt. Dan Brent
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1940
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The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and...
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John Phillips
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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The Ringo Kid
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1939
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The Three Mesqueteers attempt to prevent wholesale slaughter in this fine Republic Western starring John Wayne,...
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Stony Brooke
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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Jim Smith
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1939
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This "Three Mesquiteers" western is based upon the exploits of one James Addison Reavis, a clever 19th century con artist who...
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Stony Brooke
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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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Stony Brooke
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1939
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Forever keeping apace of current headlines, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series came up with the 1939 entry Wyoming Outlaw....
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Stony Brooke
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1939
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The villains in the "Three Mesquiteers" entry Red River Range are bunch of progressive cattle thieves. This being 1939, the...
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Stony Brooke
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1938
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Stony Brooke
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1938
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Stony Brook (aka Ezeckial Saunders)
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1938
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Stony Brooke
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1938
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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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Dare Rudd
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1937
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This action drama features John Wayne in an early, non western role. He plays a trucker who owns half of a small but...
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Biff Smith
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1937
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Another entry from John Wayne's non-western series at Universal, Conflict casts Wayne as Pat, a bare-knuckle boxer in...
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Pat
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1937
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Signed for a series of B pictures by Universal in 1936, John Wayne alternated between westerns and modern-day adventure...
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Johnny Hanson
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1937
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Seasoned newsreel cameraman Bob Adams (John Wayne) is assigned to cover the rebellion in the fictional Arab country of...
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Bob Adams
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1937
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In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter...
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Duke Slade
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1937
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The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his...
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John Ashley
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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Bob Randall
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1936
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Former pony express riders John Blair (John Wayne) and Larry Adams (Lane Chandler) don't buy the Brooklyn Bridge in this...
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John Blair
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1936
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John Wayne stars in this Western as a law student seeking revenge on the ruthless land baron who killed his parents; after he...
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John Clayborn
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1936
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Republic's The Lawless Nineties reteams the studio's up-and-coming cowboy star John Wayne with 19-year-old ingenue...
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John Tipton
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1936
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Though released by Republic, The Oregon Trail was actually filmed by the Lone Star unit at Monogram. John Wayne stars in a...
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1936
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John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired...
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John Dawson
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1935
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Westward Ho begins as hero John Wyatt (John Wayne) vows to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of cattle rustlers....
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John Wyatt
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1935
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Earl Dwire supplies a deliciously ripe performance as a half-breed outlaw in this early John Wayne Western from Monogram....
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John Tobin
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1935
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John Wayne's easy-going charm truly began to manifest itself in this, one of his later "Lone Star" Westerns for Monogram....
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John Scott
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1935
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An average entry in the otherwise above-average Monogram/"Lone Star" Western series starring John Wayne, this film is...
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John Mason
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1935
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A young John Wayne is charged with building a road into the title valley in this routine Western from Monogram. The building...
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John Martin
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1935
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Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting...
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John Wyatt
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1935
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With a 45-minute running time, or thereabouts, Texas Terror was John Wayne's shortest Lone Star/Monogram Western and far from...
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John Higgins
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1935
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In this, his fourth Western for Republic Pictures, John Wayne plays John Middleton, a would-be rodeo rider forsaking his...
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John Middleton
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1935
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After helping prevent a bank robbery, young drifter John Weston (John Wayne) is assigned by Marshal Higgins (George "Gabby"...
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1934
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Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...
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1934
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Ted Hayden
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1934
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John Wayne attempts to locate Shirley Jean Rickert's wayward father in this low-budget Western from his days with Monogram....
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Chris Morrell
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1934
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In perhaps the most haunting opening of any B-Western, Randy Rides Alone has John Wayne enter a deserted saloon filled with...
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1934
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John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for...
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John Carruthers
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1934
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The third entry in John Wayne's superior Lone Star series for producer Paul Malvern, The Lucky Texan features Wayne as Jerry...
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Jerry Mason
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1934
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Definitely the most expensive-looking of John Wayne's "Lone Star" westerns, The Star Packer casts "the Duke" as U.S. marshal...
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U.S. Marshall John Travers
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1934
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A very young John Wayne is atypically cast as a randy playboy in His Private Secretary. Much to the dismay of his businessman...
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Dick Wallace
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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1933
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Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the...
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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1933
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In the first of his 16 Westerns for Monogram, John Wayne plays Singin' Sandy Saunders, a drifter who witnesses what he at...
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Singin' Sandy Saunders
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1933
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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1933
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The Man From Monterey was the last of John Wayne's "B"-westerns for Warner Bros. The Duke plays U.S. army captain John...
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Capt. John Holmes
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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Jimmy McCoy
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1933
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So unknown was John Wayne in 1934 that the Variety review of the "B"-western Sagebrush Trail fails to list Wayne in the cast!...
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John Brant
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1933
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In this western, John Wayne plays a bronc buster who flees to Mexico after he is falsely accused of rigging a stagecoach...
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1933
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Directed by Tenny Wright, The Telegraph Trail features John Wayne as John Trent, a calvary scout who has been sent to put a...
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John Trent
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1933
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In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for...
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1932
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One of The Duke's earlier efforts, this John Wayne vehicle sees our hero using his wits against not only gold hunters, but...
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1932
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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John Steele
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1932
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Ride Him, Cowboy was the first entry in John Wayne's "B"-western series for Warner Bros. Wayne plays John Drury, a handsome...
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John Drury
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1932
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A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising...
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1932
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Larry Baker
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1932
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Penned by prolific pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Western may have been the forerunner of...
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1932
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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Buzz Kinney
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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1931
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Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that...
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Gordon Wales
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1931
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No relation to the 1935 Mascot programmer of the same name, Girls Demand Excitement offers an early starring appearance by...
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Peter Brooks
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1931
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Buck Jones is supported by a very young John Wayne in this fine Western from his early years at Columbia Pictures. They play...
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Clint Turner
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1931
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A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
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Dusty
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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Lt. Bob Denton
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1931
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Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama...
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1930
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John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
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1930
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A pre-Dagwood Arthur Lake plays a hapless hayseed who becomes a popular crooner in this fluffy musical comedy that begins...
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1930
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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Breck Coleman
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1930
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler....
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1929
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In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing...
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Pete Donahue
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1929
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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1929
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This college musical chronicles the travails of a college football star who wants to quit playing. To stop him, the...
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1929
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Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter...
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1929
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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1928
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Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based...
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1928
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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1928
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Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit...
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1928
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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1927
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The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of...
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1927
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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1926
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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Silent screen Western star Tom Mix portrays a detective investigating a series of train robberies in this fast-paced,...
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1926
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