Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film...
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1949
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Haunted Trails is another of the long series of Whip Wilson westerns churned out by Monogram in the late 1940s. As before,...
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1949
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was in his final year of movie stardom when Gun Runner was released by Monogram. Wakely has more...
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1949
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In one of his better later Westerns, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely comes to the aid of a reformed outlaw and his wayward son....
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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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1948
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Country and western warbler-turned-cowboy star Jimmy Wakely, normally a colorless and unexciting screen presence, is actually...
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1948
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Two communities fight to become county seat in this Jimmy Wakely music western from Monogram Pictures. When Rainbow's End,...
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1948
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In this western a cowboy and his gang must take on a band of bad-to-the-bone female outlaws. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Sheriff of Medicine Bow is one of the slower-moving Johnny Mack Brown westerns for Monogram. Once, again, Brown is teamed...
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1948
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Hired to catch a killer horse named Midnight, Jimmy Wakely and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) get themselves in trouble...
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1948
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In this tuneful western, a brave hero endeavors to save the town from the evil villains who are trying to poison its water...
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1948
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In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman...
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1948
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"Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of...
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1948
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In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government...
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1948
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty...
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1947
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After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace...
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1947
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In early 1947, Screen Guild Productions experimented with a new format: a 90-minute double feature package, consisting of two...
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1947
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The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by...
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1947
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1947
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Trailing Danger is one of Johnny Mack Brown's cookie-cutter Monogram westerns. Once again, Brown is teamed with grizzled...
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1947
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One film critic compared Monogram's eight Johnny Mack Brown westerns of 1947 to strawberries: it was up to the viewer sort...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here:...
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1947
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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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In one of his better Monogram Westerns, Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a crooked saloon owner with more than one murder on...
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1946
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was...
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1946
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Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram,...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of...
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1946
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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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Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic western series starring...
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1945
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Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from...
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1945
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The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series...
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1945
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A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada...
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1945
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Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other...
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1945
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Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack...
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1945
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Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada...
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1944
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The Sundown Riders was the first in a brief series of "experimental" westerns, designed for the then-burgeoning...
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1944
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1944
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The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in...
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1944
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns...
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1943
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The first of Tim Holt's 1943 quota of RKO westerns was Fighting Frontier. This time, Holt appears to be cast as a...
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1943
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An amoral gambler tries to beat a murder rap by adopting an orphaned newsboy in this drama. He takes in the lad to show the...
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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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A playboy imprisoned for a bank robbery he didn't commit gets involved with a convict who's determined to make a daring...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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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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Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the screen guise of the Durango...
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1941
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1941
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Wild Bill Hickok is once more impersonated by Will Bill Elliot in the Columbia western Wildcat of Tucson. This time, Hickok...
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1941
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Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in...
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1941
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Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During...
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1941
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As Wild Bill Hickok and sidekick Cannonball stalk a murderer, they encounter the killer's fiancee. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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Honest cop Bob Conlon (Bruce Bennett) is in love with Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson),who begs off from a lasting committment...
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1941
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Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in...
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1941
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Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly...
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1941
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1941
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Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his...
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1941
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That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia...
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1941
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Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe....
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1941
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Columbia Pictures' resident cowboy ace, Charles Starrett, turns into a regular prairie Robin Hood in this fine Western...
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1940
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Should a Girl Marry? never completely answers its own question, inasmuch as the story concentrates primarily on the male...
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1939
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A talented South American singer heads for New York to keep her innocent brother from being convicted of arson in this...
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1939
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According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's...
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1939
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Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star...
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1939
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Extortion was designed as a sort of trial balloon for Columbia's new contractees Scott Colton and Mary Russell. The story...
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1938
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It will do no good to look for Broderick Crawford in the cast of Highway Patrol; this is not the famed TV series of the...
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1938
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Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as...
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1938
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A concert singer goes blind after a rival throws acid in his face and leaves his New York girlfriend to return to his...
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1938
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In this prison drama, a female robber is sent to prison. She is the only one in the gang who knows the location of the loot...
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1938
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While Rita Hayworth was one of many starlets signed to one-year contracts at Columbia in 1936-37, she was one of the few who...
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1937
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1937
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In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore...
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1937
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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The exciting worlds of motorboat and auto racing provide the backdrops for this exciting drama. The story begins as an...
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1935
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"That Girl" isn't Marlo Thomas, but instead heiress Jeanne Hudson (Barbara Kent). Someone has tried to murder Jeanne with a...
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1935
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Richard Cromwell stars in Columbia's Men of the Hour as dedicated newsreel cameraman Dave Durkin. When Dave and his...
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1935
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Directed by former screenwriter Ford I. Beebe, this Tim McCoy Western from Columbia co-starred Robert Allen, a handsome...
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1935
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Jack Holt plays Jim Burke, a he-man construction foreman whose stomach is turned by his namby-pamby, violin-playing son...
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1935
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1935
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In this actioner, a race car driver is recuperating from an accident when he meets a charming waitress and decides to go...
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1935
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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1934
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A remake of the earlier The Lone Rider (1930), The Man Trailer once again starred Buck Jones as Track Ames, a fugitive from a...
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1934
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One is Guilty was an entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, all starring the ubiquitous Ralph Bellamy. A...
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1934
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At the time of its release, Fighting Code was praised as being markedly different from the general run of Buck Jones...
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1934
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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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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In the first of Columbia Pictures' "Inspector Trent" whodunits, the inspector (Ralph Bellamy) is called in to investigate the...
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1934
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon...
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1933
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Yankee Buck Jones turns into a south-of-the-border Robin Hood in this fine, if flawed, Western from Columbia Pictures....
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1933
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Columbia's Buck Jones western series was winding down when Unknown Valley was released in mid-1934. Jones plays Bob Gordon,...
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1933
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In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the...
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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1933
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This dark, brooding ancestor to Hang 'Em High features Buck Jones as a happy-go-lucky cowpoke who is duped by a gang of...
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1933
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In this western a falsely accused convict is paroled. He goes home and finds himself ostracized by his neighbors who believe...
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1932
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A highly unusual Buck Jones Western, South of the Rio Grande featured the spectacle of Jones playing a Mexican Rurales...
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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1932
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In this western, a Chicago slicker begins grabbing land and using it to scam city dwellers by selling it first to locals,...
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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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An average Buck Jones oater from Columbia Pictures, Forbidden Trail featured a girl newspaper publisher, Mary Middleton...
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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1932
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1930
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In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing team and helps them to...
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1930
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A long-lost silent melodrama, Fleetwing stars handsome Barry Norton as a young Arab whose happiness over having captured both...
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1929
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In one of his final Westerns for the Fox company, Buck Jones promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert...
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1928
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Buck Jones stars as Buck Laramie, an itinerant cowpoke who wanders into a wide-open frontier town. Heroine Ellen Wade...
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1927
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A simple but well-received silent Western, this film starred popular Buck Jones as a young rancher tracking down the rustler...
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1927
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When cowboy Buck Thomas' (Buck Jones) beloved horse Silver is "drafted" into the Cavalry during WWI, Buck loyally joins up as...
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1927
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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1926
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Proof that Anna Q. Nilsson had completely recovered from a recent injury was offered by her willingness to tackle a dual role...
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1926
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Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon star in this drama, which was actually based on a novel, The Interpreter's House, by Struthers...
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1925
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With his masculine, upstanding good looks, Milton Sills was well-cast as a cop in this drama. Jim O'Malley (Sills) is too...
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1925
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1925
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When he tears a ligament in his arm, light heavyweight champion Sandy Donlin (Milton Sills) is forced to take a break from...
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1925
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This tale of small-town gossip and self-sacrifice was one of the last productions supervised by Thomas Ince (he died under...
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1924
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Although John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, it was actually the Clyde Fitch play that served as...
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1924
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Based on a story by Max Brand (Frederick Faust), this minor Tom Mix western is really just a romantic comedy in which Tom...
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1924
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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1924
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After playing it for laughs in his past few films, cowboy star Tom Mix decided to get serious in this Western, based on a...
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1923
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The handsome but uninspired Lloyd Hughes plays a young Cajun man in this drama produced by Thomas Ince. Jeff Newland...
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1923
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Clinging to one's youth was considered a fault in the 1920s, as evidenced by this domestic drama. Even though lawyer Hugh...
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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1923
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This tale of a crook's reform takes place in the San Francisco of the early 1900s. Predictably, Lon Chaney plays a crook and...
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1923
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The Rangers use airplanes to catch the bad guys in this above-average Tom Mix Western filmed on location in Santa Cruz,...
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1923
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The stern William S. Hart was wearing out his welcome by the early 1920s, at least according to the review of his films. Hart...
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1922
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Popular Universal leading man Frank Mayo is put through his customary paces in The Altar Stairs. Mayo plays a rugged ship's...
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1922
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This light romantic comedy was based on Miles Brewster and the Super-Sex by Frank R. Adams. Young Miles Brewster Higgins...
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1922
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Manly Hobart Bosworth tackles one of his characteristic roles -- that of a brutal sea captain -- in this drama written by C....
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1922
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This patriotic melodrama was "personally supervised" by early film mogul Thomas Ince. It's a sure bet that he didn't put his...
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1922
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The great silent western hero William S. Hart was no longer in his prime when he produced (for Paramount-Artcraft) this...
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1921
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William S. Hart takes his good-bad man character out of the West for this capital-versus-labor drama. Widower Robert Evans...
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1921
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Twin brothers, separated at birth, are again found on opposite sides of the law in this typical William S. Hart western....
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1921
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1921
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Cowboy star William S. Hart takes one of his rare vacations from Westerns in this picture to play a crook-turned-cop (at...
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1920
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Veteran star William S. Hart both produced and starred in this western about a railroad-station agent who loses his job...
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1920
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A tough outlaw, "Sierra" Bill (William S. Hart), falls in love with a travelling girl violinist, Nelly (Eva Novak), and...
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1920
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William S. Hart added a bit more suspense and drama in this otherwise typical Hart western. The greatest western star of the...
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1920
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This film is quite a departure for Western star William S. Hart -- he plays a New Orleans modiste! The role, however, starts...
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1919
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In this illiam S. Hart picture, the cowboy star plays Buckskin Hamilton, a wagon-train guide. He heads east to the...
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1919
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Boss rider "Careless" Carmody (William S. Hart) is made sheriff of an Arizona frontier town by Chicago swindler Prentice...
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1919
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A lesser-known William S. Hart vehicle, The Money Corral casts two-gun Bill as a rodeo story. A Chicago banker hires Hart to...
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1919
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Cowboy hero William S. Hart tries something altogether different in this film. He plays Hairpin Harry Dutton, a burglar who...
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1919
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Cowboy star William S. Hart plays Jefferson "Riddle" Gawne, a man who really carries a grudge. When he finds his brother...
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1918
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Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands (William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight...
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Director
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1918
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Wolf Lowry (William S. Hart) owns the Bar Z Ranch. He gets worked up when he finds a squatter on his land, but after he...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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William S. Hart plays (what else?) a "good badman" in his first production for Paramount release, The Narrow Trail. While...
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Director
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1917
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Olive Thomas was an ex-Follies girl, so she was well suited to her role in this comedy-drama. Claire Curtis (Thomas), Jimmie...
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1917
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1917
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