In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob...
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1942
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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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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The best thing about the Jack Randall Western Pioneer Days is its short-and-sweet running time, a brisk 50 minutes. Randall...
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1940
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Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil...
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1940
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In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things...
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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In his penultimate Western for low-budget company Metropolitan, Bob Steele's horse Pirate, "one of the finest Arabian...
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1940
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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At the end of his long association with Hal Roach, comedian Stan Laurel produced three singing Westerns featuring operatic...
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1939
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Brothers Terry and Joe Murphy (Dick Purcell, Charles Quigley) are the Heroes in Blue in this Monogram actioner. Actually,...
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1939
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Rolling Caravans was one of four Columbia B-westerns designed to make a star out of utility actor Jack Luden. Harry Woods, a...
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Rankin
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1938
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Radio comedian Joe Penner, of "You Naaassty Man!" fame, was very much an acquired taste in 1938, and even more so when seen...
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1938
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The locale may be South of Arizona, but the on-screen personnel in this Charles Starrett western is virtually the same as in...
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1938
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Orphan of the Pecos is one of the eight Tom Tyler westerns produced by Victory Pictures during the 1937-38 season. Victory...
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1938
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Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach...
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Tom Larkin
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1938
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Singing cowboy Smith Ballew is the nominal star of Rawhide, but the audience only had eyes for Ballew's co-star:...
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1938
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The second of six low-budget Ken Maynard Westerns produced by Max and Arthur Alexander, Six Shootin' Sheriff featured a...
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Zeke
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1938
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The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully...
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1937
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Each of Bob Allen's six westerns for Columbia had the words "Ranger" or "Range" in the title, and Law of the Ranger was no...
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Polk
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1937
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Cheapie king Sam Katzman was both producer and director of the Tom Tyler western The Lost Ranch. "Our Tom" essays his...
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1937
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In this western, a singing outlaw and a US marshal kill each other in a fight. Their demise is witnessed by an opportunistic...
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1937
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The agent for a cattlemen's association and his partner spot an old enemy in town one day. They discover that he is planning...
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1937
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Superior locations, above-average direction, better than usual lighting and competent acting were the ingredients that made...
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1937
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In between warbling Old Home Ranch and Yellow Mellow Moon (both by June Hershey and Don Swander), barytone cowboy Fred Scott...
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1937
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A courageous Texas Ranger leaves his job to mediate a violent, long-standing dispute between his family and that of his...
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1937
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1937
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Based on the notorious Black Legion which had created quite a turmoil in Michigan a few years earlier, screenwriter Edmund...
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1937
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The third of six Rex Bell Westerns produced by the Alexander brothers, Arthur and Max, The Idaho Kid was the first to be...
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Endicott
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1937
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Released to stony silence in February of 1937, this film was an atrocious musical western starring former silent screen...
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1937
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Even for a Sam Katzman production, the 1937 Tom Tyler western Brothers of the West is remarkably tacky. The steely-eyed...
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Sheriff Bob
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1937
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Tom Tyler ground out 19 starring westerns for Reliable Pictures in the mid-1930s, of which Santa Fe Bound is neither the best...
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1937
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Robert Allen isn't particularly "reckless" in this rather pedestrian Western, which had the gall to cast the non-actor in...
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1937
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The victim of an express office hold-up, a young boy (Bobby Nelson) is saved by yet another Rin Tin Tin wannabe in this...
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1936
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Ken Maynard at least tries to keep his characteristic off-the-wall ad-libs to a minimum in Fugitive Sheriff. Hoping to rid a...
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1936
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The first of nine Bill Carson Westerns produced by Sigmund Neufeld and starring the stalwart Tim McCoy, Lightnin' Bill Carson...
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1936
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Gun Smoke was the second of a brace of "B"-westerns starring the now-forgotten Buck Coburn. The plot is as standard as...
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1936
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Buck Jones, the auteur of the prairies, frequently wrote and/or directed his own westerns. Jones composed the screenplay for...
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1936
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Veteran silent screen star William Farnum earns one of his more prominent talking picture roles in this otherwise standard...
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1936
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Last of the Warrens is ever-so-slightly better than most of Bob Steele's westerns for A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures. Once...
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Sheriff
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1936
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Most of Ken Maynard's westerns were highly distinctive, if not always good. Heroes of the Range is okay but virtually...
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1936
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In his second of an unprecedented 131 Westerns for Columbia Pictures, handsome Charles Starrett donned his trademark white...
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Mattland
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1936
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Produced for around 10,000 dollars by Gower Gulch entrepreneur Arthur Alexander, this the fourth of six Rex Bell Westerns was...
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1936
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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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1936
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In this western, a cowboy finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine...
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1936
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Based on Tracks, a 1928 short story by Stephen Payne, this low-budget Western from Diversion Pictures told the ancient story...
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1936
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More a whodunit than a straight Western, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia featured a cowboy returning to his...
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1935
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The redoubtable Victor Adamson (aka Denver Dixon) got together a few hundred bucks, assigned the screenplay chores to his...
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1935
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The second of 18 Tom Tyler westerns produced by small-time company Reliable, this film starred the former silent screen...
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1935
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In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love...
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1935
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Harry Carey's western series for bottom-of-the-barrel Ajax Pictures were definitely a mixed bag, but some were pretty good,...
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1935
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"Queen of Camp" might be a more appropriate title for this unintentionally hilarious low-budget serial. It is the story of...
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1935
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Released in the wake of the spooky The Big Calibre (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the spectacle of a villain...
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King
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1935
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Though filmed on a tight budget, Universal's Trail Drive has the size and scope of a silent western epic, proof positive of...
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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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1935
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Released in the wake of the bizarre Big Calibre (1935), this below-average Bob Steele Western directed by his father Robert...
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1935
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Unlike most low-budget B-Westerns, several of Hoot Gibson's vehicles from Diversion Pictures were based on a literary source,...
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1935
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1935
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Although billed fourth, Veteran silent screen actor Franklyn Farnum is the real star of this ultra low-budget Western from...
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1935
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1935
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Louis Weiss (of Poverty Row's Weiss Bros.) produced this commonplace B-Western starring one of the lesser names of the genre,...
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1935
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One of several poverty-row films which vanished from sight during the 1935-36 movie season, Beacon Productions did its best...
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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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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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1935
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Boss Cowboy was released by Superior Pictures-a misleading corporate name if ever there was one. Buddy Roosevelt plays a...
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1935
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Based on William Colt MacDonald's Law of the Forty-Fives, this ultra low-budget Beacon Western stars...
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1935
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Rock bottom western film-making on all fronts, The Hawk starred Yancey Lane as Jay Price, a young man who learns from his...
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1935
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In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
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1935
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1935
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Star Reb Russell was an all-American football player who tried to make it as a movie cowboy. There were three things standing...
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1935
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More of a whodunit than a straight Western, this Guinn "Big Boy" Williams vehicle from low-budget Beacon Pictures at least...
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Tap Smiley
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1935
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In the fourth of 18 inexpensive Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Reliable Pictures and filmed on location in Newhall,...
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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1935
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In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking...
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1934
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The seventh of eight terrible Westerns produced by Victor Adamson's comically misnamed Superior Talking Pictures, Rawhide...
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1934
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1934
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Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and...
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1934
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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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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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1934
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1934
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In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien...
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1934
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Written (under the pseudonym of Jimmy Hawkey) and directed by Robert F. Hill, this very low-budget Western from poverty row...
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1934
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Taking a break from westerns during the 1933-34 season, Colonel Tim McCoy was starred in such Columbia "easterners" as...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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1934
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In this western, a band of avaricious men kill a rancher in order to take over his land. The dead man's nephew was slated to...
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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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1934
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The Quitters was typical of the curiously uninviting titles frequently bestowed upon the Chesterfield-Invincible productions...
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1934
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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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Three outlaws go straight in order to protect a young girl from her unscrupulous guardian in this low-budget Western, the...
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1934
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In this crime drama, a state trooper falls in love with a night club singer. The club owner is a racketeer using the...
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Dad Daley
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1934
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B-Western perennial Bob Steele made attempts at diversifying in 1933 by playing a circus acrobat in The Gallant Fool and a...
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1933
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A minor entry from small-scale Progressive Pictures, Under Secret Orders starred the rather pallid Donald Dillaway as Henry...
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1933
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The Galloping Romeo is Bob Steele, a wandering cowboy who's had incredibly bad luck with women. After several romantic...
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1933
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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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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1933
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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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Poverty Row entrepreneur Victor Adamson (hiding behind the pseudonym of Denver Dixon) once again managed to release a...
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Judge Williams
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1933
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Filmed at picturesque Lake Tahoe, NV, this ultra-low-budget dog melodrama starred one of Rin-Tin-Tin's better successors,...
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Seeker Dean
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1933
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The last of three Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Gower Gulch regular John R. Freuler, War of the Range featured the strapping...
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1933
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In this unusual Western, Buck Jones is not only branded for being a "squaw stealer" (i.e. rapist) but his prey is a woman...
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1933
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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1933
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In this western, the locals are being plagued by "Black Death" an evil outlaw who shoots victims with chemical bullets that...
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1933
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Gangsters and cowboys don't mix as a recently returned World War I veteran soon discovers in this drama. The trouble is set...
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Daniel Plummer
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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In this western, a persuasive young oil salesman persuades the residents of a small Texas town to invest in an oil well....
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Sheriff Carver
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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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1933
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Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for...
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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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1933
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1933
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A pet monkey saves the day in this otherwise unusually adult Bob Steele Western. The bantam-weight Steele plays Nick, aka...
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1933
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Ostensibly based on a story by pulp writer William Colt McDonald, this minor Western, filmed at Lone Pine, CA, starred Lane...
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1932
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1932
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Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
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1932
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In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
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1932
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Based on a story in Golden West magazine by Frederick Ryter, this rather pedestrian Monogram Western starred handsome...
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1932
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As he had so many times before, Hoot Gibson pretended to be a dimwit in this low-budget Western, his penultimate for...
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1932
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Hoot Gibson's first 1932 western was the breezy The Gay Buckaroo. The ol' Hooter plays Clint Hale, a rancher in love with...
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1932
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Future Academy Award-winner Hattie McDaniel briefly brightened the proceedings in this, one of her two B-Western appearances...
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1932
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The third of Poverty Row producer Willis Kent's eight Lane Chandler Westerns, Battling Buckaroo was filmed on-location at the...
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1932
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The second of six sound Westerns starring Jack Hoxie and produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film, like most...
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1932
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Though well past 50, Harry Carey could still play a virile and convincing cowboy hero in such inexpensive westerns as Without...
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1932
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Tim McCoy is falsely accused of killing his own father in this typical low-budget oater directed by the generally efficient...
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1932
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Released by Syndicate, a forerunner of sorts to Monogram Pictures, this Western serial stars veteran silent actor Robert...
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1932
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Having signed for eight Westerns with poverty row entrepreneur E.W. Hammons, Ken Maynard went on to deliver a series of solid...
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1932
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In this crime thriller, a suicidal writer is saved by a helpful newspaper editor who gives her a much-needed job. Later she...
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1932
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Having basically bankrolled the struggling Warner Bros., the era's most popular canine, Rin Tin Tin, signed a...
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1932
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Filmed at Red Rock Canyon, AZ, and at rental stages at the California Tiffany Studios, Tombstone Canyon was the fifth of...
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1932
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Filmed on location at Lone Pine, CA, this above average Ken Maynard oater features the veteran cowboy star in the title role,...
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1932
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A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ...
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1932
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Tim McCoy played a cavalry officer dishonorably discharged for selling weapons to the Indians in this arguably his finest...
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1932
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More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a...
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1932
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Tom Tyler is Singlehanded Sanders in this economical Monogram oater. Tyler plays a small-town blacksmith, whose reckless...
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1932
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In his third Allied Pictures release of 1932, veteran screen cowboy Hoot Gibson played his favorite role, that of a...
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Bowie Moore
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1932
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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1931
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Red Fork Range stars Wally Wales, who enjoyed a lengthy starring career in "B"-westerns before entering the character-actor...
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1931
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Though he spent the bulk of the talkie era at mighty MGM, director Richard Thorpe put in three solid years' service on...
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Col. Rickson
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1931
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Hurricane Horseman was the first entry in cowboy star Lane Chandler's brief western series for Willis Kent Productions. In...
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1931
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In his third Western for low-budget company Tiffany, Ken Maynard plays Ken Neville, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy goes on the lam after killing his cheatin' wife's lover and allowing his friend to take the fall....
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Sheriff McWade
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1931
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Considered by many the prototypical low-budget Ken Maynard oater, Range Law starred Maynard as Hap Connors, a prisoner making...
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Frisco
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1931
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One-legged Western maverick Robert J. Horner came up with yet another loser in this dead-on-arrival oater starring silent...
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1931
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Like many "Big Four" westerns of the early talkie era, The Cyclone Kid spotlights a popular cowboy star of the silent era, in...
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Harvey Comstock
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1931
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In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found...
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1931
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Buck Jones falls in love with the sister of the outlaw he has just killed in this superior B-Western from independent...
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1931
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The star of the 12-episode Mascot serial The Galloping Ghost can be only one man: legendary college football star (Red...
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1931
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Two Gun Man was one of the better entries in Ken Maynard's variable western series for Tiffany Productions. Armed with a...
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1931
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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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A remake of the silent When a Man Rides Alone (1919), this low-budget oater from the Big 4 Film Corp. stars Wally Wales as...
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1931
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An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western...
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1930
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1930
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Poverty row company Syndicate released this early sound western starring silent-screen refugee Mahlon Hamilton as a reformed...
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1930
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The second in a series of Buck Jones westerns produced by Sol Lesser for Columbia release, Shadow Ranch is the story of a...
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1930
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From Big 4 Film Corp., Breed of the West stars former silent cowboy Wally Wales, in his second talkie, as Wally Weldon, a...
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Colonel Sterner
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1930
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This western serial chronicles the adventures of a young girl whose uncle has discovered gold out West. Accompanied by her...
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1930
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Bob Steele's talkie debut was the usual story of cattlemen versus sheepmen. Steele, the son of a cattle rancher, naturally...
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1930
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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1930
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Boris Karloff's appearance as an outlaw gives this minor Tiffany western its only claim to fame. Rex Lease, a general utility...
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1930
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Phil Dunning
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1929
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The seventh serial released by Nat Levine's penny-pinching but enterprising little Mascot Pictures, King of the Congo was...
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1929
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Set during the Civil War, this rousing silent Western starred Ken Maynard in top form as a federal agent tracking down a gang...
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1929
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Prolific director Richard Thorpe helmed this average silent Western starring one of the era's lesser cowboy heroes,...
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1928
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Western star Ken Maynard earned an opportunity to showcase his superior riding skills in this exciting silent Western about...
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1928
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New York playboy Bob Custer gets into trouble with the cops when he drunkenly steals a cabdriver's coat. The judge decides to...
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1928
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Filmed in 1917 with Jack Pickford, Gene Stratton Porter's 1904 piece of Americana came back to the screens 11 years later...
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1928
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Minor cowboy star Bob Custer finds his newly purchased land overrun by outlaws and claim-grabbers in this minor silent...
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1928
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Romance, betrayal, and forgiveness at a cavalry outpost were the ingredients in this low-budget silent Western directed by...
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Colonel John Farrar
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1926
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The familiar silent-screen serial team of Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber starred in this inexpensive western potboiler which...
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1926
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Despite being a less than inspiring actor at his best, Buddy Roosevelt was asked to play identical twins -- one good, the...
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Silas Trigger
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1926
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Silent serial star Ben Wilson was the penny-pinching producer of the 1926 feature Captain's Courage. Set in the North Woods,...
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1926
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In this minor silent Western, a playful "kidnapping" goes horribly wrong when a gang of bank robbers enters the picture....
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1926
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Parsimonious Hollywood entrepreneur Lester F. Scott, Jr. produced this little western melodrama starring Buffalo Bill, Jr.,...
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1925
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Peter Daley
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1925
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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In a case of one for all and all for one, D'Artagnan-ish ranger Buck Adams (Pete Morrison) and his two colleagues, Manuel...
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1924
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Jim Downing
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1924
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Hollywood's self-described "Smiling Daredevil," Lester Cuneo starred in this very low-budget silent Western produced by Ward...
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1923
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When William Bankinton (Will Machin) is shipwrecked, his loses his memory. He is able to make his way in the wilds with the...
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1917
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