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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1960
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1960
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A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular...
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1959
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Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a...
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Himself
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1958
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One of the least-known of the American-International "B" westerns of the 1950s, Flesh and the Spur offers the spectacle of...
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1957
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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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1956
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1954
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Gene Autry's summer release for 1953 was the 56-minute Pack Train. In this one, Autry is assigned to safely transport...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Not so much produced as stitched together, The Black Lash was ostensibly a sequel, with plenty of stock footage, to Frontier...
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Woodruff
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1952
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Yet another Roy Rogers Western whose title refers to a song, In Old Amarillo actually takes place in and around Amarillo of...
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1951
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A fast-paced entry in Republic Pictures' fine Allan "Rocky" Lane series, Fort Dodge Stampede details the search for $30,000...
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1951
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Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a...
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1951
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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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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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1950
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Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers'...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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Whip Wilson stars in the formula Monogram western Silver Raiders. Cast as Arizona ranger Larry, Wilson goes undercover to...
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1950
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Lippert Studio's first 1951 release was the compact western 3 Desperate Men. The title characters are the Denton Brothers,...
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1950
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal...
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1949
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Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western...
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1949
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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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Heavily trimmed prior to release, this entry in the Charles Starrett "Durango Kid" Western series for Columbia includes...
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1949
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In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo...
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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1948
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Produced on the cheap by Ron Ormond and his wife, June Carr, this Western was one of ten to star Lash LaRue and Al St. John,...
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1948
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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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In this western, a cowboy crooner finds himself entangled with ruthless rustlers posing as Rangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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A nasty rancher orders his men to kill his own half-brother for a piece of valuable ranch land in this low-budget PRC oater...
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1946
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Eddie Dean, PRC's low-budget answer to Gene Autry, starred in this lethargic singing western which benefited from Dean...
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1946
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Prairie Badmen is a typically threadbare entry in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series. This time around, Billy Carson...
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1946
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1946
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One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The...
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1946
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In this western, a tuneful saddletramp is appointed sheriff of Rawhide and begins rounding up three troublesome brothers. ~...
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1946
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Neath The Canadian Skies was one of a quartet of 45-minute "northerns", all produced by Golden Gate Productions and released...
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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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Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up in this "Billy Carson" Western series entry starring Larry "Buster" Crabbe...
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Wagner
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1946
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A gang which frees criminals and kills them to collect their reward is broken up by the Texas Rangers who plant one of their...
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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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1945
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The "urban" nature of the title notwithstanding, Gangster's Den is another PRC Studios B-western. Buster Crabbe and...
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1945
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In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting. ~ Sandra...
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1945
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Fighting Bill Carson, as any B-western aficionado can readily tell you, is played by Buster Crabbe. And where there's Bill...
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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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1945
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At long last, a low-budget Western that fully lives up to its title, Stagecoach Outlaws depicts exactly that, a gang of...
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1945
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A great old Western filled with Tex Ritter's songs, this one revolves around a manhunt by the Texas Rangers who are trying to...
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1945
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One of the screen's favorite tough blondes, the delightful Veda Ann Borg, stole the show in this low-budget serial produced...
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1945
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It's Buster Crabbe times two in this low-budget "Billy Carson" Western from PRC, which once again trots out that anatomical...
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1945
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One thing is certain in Frontier Outlaws. Despite evidence to the contrary, Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones...
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1944
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In this western, a courageous cowboy stops the land-grabbing conspiracy of a corrupt banker. The banker was planning to wait...
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1944
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Thrill to the adventures of Billy the Kid. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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1944
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In this western, a gang of evil cattle rustlers wreaks havoc upon a community of ranchers. Three Texas Rangers come to the...
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1944
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The Texas Rangers ride again in the PRC oater Gunsmoke Mesa. As in earlier series entries, the rangers are played by Jim...
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1944
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Being in the presence of a gun-slinger is intimidating enough, but when a "thundering" gun-slinger comes riding over the...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe essays a dual role in the PRC horse opera The Drifter. Crabbe is seen in his usual guise as dogooder Billy...
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Jack
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1944
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Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy of commercial-minded RKO....
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1944
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Serial killers are on the loose in this "Lone Rider" entry from PRC reportedly based on the exploits of a real-life 1870s...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe is back as Billy Carson, aka Billy the Kid, in the PRC western The Devil Riders. In this one, Billy and his...
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1944
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Like most of Monogram's 1943 "Range Busters" westerns, Two-Fisted Justice was directed by Robert Tansey. In this outing, the...
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1943
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Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic's "John Paul Revere" western series. Journeyman actor Eddie Dew...
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1943
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1943
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Another low-budget entry in PRC's interminable Texas Ranger series, Border Buckaroos is perhaps the only B-Western to...
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1943
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Billy the Kid, in the person of former swimming champion Larry "Buster" Crabbe, is once again falsely accused of a crime in...
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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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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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Cattlemen Robert Paige and Noah Beery Jr. run up against a shady syndicate, set up to squash the dealing between independent...
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1943
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In this "Billy the Kid" series western, Billy (Buster Crabbe) is framed by an outlaw gang. Fortunately, state governor Arnold...
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1943
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That favorite old B-Western menace Charles King is at it again in Raiders of Red Gap, the last of PRC's "Lone Rider" Westerns...
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1943
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The Range Busters do their heroic duty once again as they set out to capture those responsible for a bank robbery and murder...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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White villains once again agitate a friendly tribe of Indians in this average Columbia serial starring nonentity Robert...
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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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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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1942
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In this western, the courageous Range Busters, round up the rabble-rousing rustlers who've been rendering Rock River really...
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1942
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Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the...
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1942
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Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again...
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1942
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Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning...
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1942
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Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small...
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1942
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Jack Greenhalgh's murky photography did not enhance this low-budget "Billy the Kid" series entry, in which a falsely accused...
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1942
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In this western, two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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When the order of the Western frontier is threatened by bandits, cowboys are the only measure of justice in the area. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Also known as Billy the Kid in Law and Order, this PRC sagebrusher stars Buster Crabbe as Billy "The Kid" Carson and...
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1942
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Music, gangster melodrama, and snappy newspaper comedy is blended into the usual Western shenanigans in this unusual...
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1942
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In this western the three Range Busters go undercover, take on a gang of ruthless outlaws, and bring them to justice. ~...
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1942
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In this episode of the "Billy the Kid" series of westerns, outlaw Billy (Buster Crabbe) is mistakenly appointed Sage Valley's...
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1942
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Having done just fine at the box office with 1942's Apache Trail, MGM turned out another "pocket" western, The Omaha Trail....
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1942
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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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1941
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his buddies Johnny (Brad King) and California (Andy Clyde) take on a gang of rustlers in...
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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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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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1941
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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Trail of the Silver Spurs was Monogram's first "Range Riders" entry for 1941. As in previous episodes, the three heroes are...
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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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1941
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Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol....
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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Don "Red" Barry's first western of 1941, Wyoming Wildcat told the careworn but still potent story of a war veteran returning...
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1941
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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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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three...
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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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1940
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In emulation of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series, Monogram launched its own three-star sagebrush property, "The...
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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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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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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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1940
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The Showdown was the second 1940 entry in Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. William Boyd (who else?) stars as...
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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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1940
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Tim McCoy once again played Department of Justice agent "Lightning Bill" Carson in Code of the Cactus, and once again he...
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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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1939
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Gene Autry goes up against another "protection" racket in this tuneful series entry, which also features country & western...
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1939
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Frank Morgan stars as vaudevillian Henry Conroy, who puts show business behind him when he inherits a dilapidated Arizona...
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1939
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered...
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1938
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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1938
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When an innocent man (Kermit Maynard) is suspected of stealing cattle, he must struggle to clear his name. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
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1938
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Jim
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1937
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Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's series for Ambassador Films was evenly divided between Northwest-Mountie adventures and...
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Glenn
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of cowboy legend Ken Maynard, stars in this low-budget horse opera. The elementary story...
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Jim Langley
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the less-popular but arguably more talented brother of cowboy star Ken Maynard, heads the cast of Roaring Six...
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Buck Sinclair
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1937
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Jack Benson
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1937
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Like most of Kermit Maynard's "northerns" for Ambassador Films, Timber War is ostensibly based on a story by James Oliver...
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Jim Dolan
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1936
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Whistling Bullets was one of better Kermit Maynard westerns from the Ambassador Pictures "B"-mill. Based on a story by James...
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Larry Graham
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1936
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Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's rope-twirling skills are seen to good advantage in Song of the Trail. Maynard is cast as a...
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Jim
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1936
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An existing production still for the Kermit Maynard "northern" Phantom Patrol pretty much sums up the outcome of the plot....
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1936
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Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...
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Gale
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1936
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In this western about the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a fur trapper is robbed and killed by a local...
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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McKenna
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1935
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In this off-beat outdoor adventure, a courageous Mountie braves the elements and many dangers to deliver mail to remote...
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1935
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The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the...
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MacKenzie
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1935
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This Western stars Kermit Maynard as a man who goes to jail for a crime actually committed by his brother and his gang. Upon...
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1935
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Kermit Maynard once again dons a Mountie uniform in Ambassador Films' Red Blood of Courage. The plot gets underway when Mark...
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James Anderson
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1935
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of western favorite Ken Maynard, launched his own starring series for Ambassador Films...
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Burke
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1934
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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1933
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Silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie returned to the celluloid range after a five year absence with this low-budget Western, the...
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1932
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This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused...
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1931
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Mascot Pictures' second all-talkie sound serial, Phantom of the West starred Tom Tyler as Jim Lester, a young man attempting...
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1931
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