This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the...
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Tay
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1991
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1990
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The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie...
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1988
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1983
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1983
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The Old West calls to one lone individual in this western film. ~ Rovi...
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1981
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An adventuresome author in 1849 travels to California's Sutter's Fort to work in a saw mill. After gold is discovered, the...
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1981
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Designed for the regional family trade, Pony Express Rider is a fond harkback to the Saturday afternoon westerns of old....
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1976
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The record-breaking 20th season of Gunsmoke also proved to be the series' last stand--not because it had lost its huge fan...
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Festus Haggen
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1974
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Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the...
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1973
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That Gunsmoke was the longest-running dramatic series in TV history was common knowledge by the time the program entered its...
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Festus Haggen
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1973
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With the cancellation of Bonanza in December of 1972, Gunsmoke remained standing as the last of the "golden age" TV westerns...
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Festus Haggen
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1972
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Seventeen seasons and 540 episodes since it burst on the TV scene as the first truly "adult" western back in 1955, Gunsmoke...
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Festus Haggen
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1971
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Having twice "cheated the hangman" by eluding CBS' efforts to cancel the series, the venerable western Gunsmoke was still...
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Festus Haggen
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1970
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Rescued from cancellation when it was moved from Saturdays to Mondays during its thirteen season, the venerable TV western...
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Festus Haggen
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1969
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Despite stiff competition from NBC's top-rated Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the venerable CBS western Gunsmoke continued to...
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Festus Haggen
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1968
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Rescued from cancellation by an eleventh-hour decision from CBS president William Paley, Gunsmoke entered its 13th season in...
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Festus Haggen
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1967
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Beginning with its 12th season, Gunsmoke switched from black-and-white to color, one of the last major network series to do...
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Festus Haggen
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1966
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By the time Gunsmoke entered its record-breaking eleventh season in the fall of 1965, the series had past beyond the realm of...
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Festus Haggen
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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The fact that Gunsmoke is able to enter its 10th season despite ever-descending ratings is a tribute not only to the series'...
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1964
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In this curiously Brechtian drama, a government official (Lewis Martin) secretly hires Paladin to bring murder suspect Billy...
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1962
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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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1962
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One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's...
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1961
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to bring outlaw Bud McPhater (Ed Faulkner) to trial. Unfortunately, rumors persist that...
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1961
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Judson Curtis (Walter Sande) hopes to gain full control of the circus he co-owns with Jerry Franklin (Robert Clarke) by...
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1960
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1960
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Future Gunsmoke regular Ken Curtis makes a return appearance as Monk, the seedy, unkempt trail bum first introduced in the...
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1960
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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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1960
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Leaning more toward acting and special effects work in his career, this is one of the occasional films that Ray Kellogg...
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Producer, Dr. Lusk
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1960
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In The Giant Gila Monster, most of the plot is given over to a group of hot-rod enthusiasts, headed by nice-guy Chace...
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Producer
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1959
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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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1959
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Producer, Jerry Lacer
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1959
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This trite, low-budget Western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the...
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1959
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During a nocturnal ride in the prairie, Paladin (Richard Boone) stops at a campfire to ask directions from a convivial chap...
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1959
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Guest star Ken Curtis serves up a dry run for his "Festus" character on Gunsmoke as a grungy, highly eccentric Oregon cattle...
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1959
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Although it revolves around a crucial issue in the history of California, this subpar drama misses its targets somehow. The...
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1959
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Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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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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John Dale Price
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1957
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After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion....
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1957
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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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1956
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
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1955
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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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1952
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Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12 chapter cliffhanger, this...
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1951
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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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1950
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In this youthful adventure, a young boy and a wild stallion, Black Diamond, form an unbreakable bond. It is the boy's father...
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1949
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1949
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It took a lot of courage to set up a new production company devoted to "B" westerns in 1949, a year when the genre was...
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Curt Benson
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1949
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In his final starring vehicle as a singing cowboy, Ken Curtis saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the...
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1947
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The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker...
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1946
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1946
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In his penultimate musical Western for Columbia, Ken Curtis played Curt Norton, a returning G.I. planning to convert his...
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1946
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Told in flashback, Out of the Depths strives to explain why its four male protagonists are bobbing around the Pacific in a...
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Buck Clayton
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1946
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In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful...
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1946
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1945
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1945
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A civil war soldier participates in the Battle of Perryville, 1862. ~ Rovi...
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