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1995
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Universal's three Flash Gordon serials have, over the years, been edited down to feature-length form. In 1991, these various...
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Flash Gordon
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1991
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A tribute to Hollywood's Tarzan as played by Johnny Weismuller, Gordon Scott and Ron Ely as well as all the of the...
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1990
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Golden TV Memories of the '50s pays homage to the unforgettable age of live television. Volume three showcases a series of...
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1987
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Never released theatrically, this undistinguished monster film is set in the Florida swamps where an unusual meteor shower...
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1984
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In this comedy a producer of "B" movies makes a film featuring a has-been cowboy star in the hopes that he can bring back...
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1982
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This early waterlogged effort from now-notorious exploitation king Fred Olen Ray (released directly to video) is an...
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1980
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In this sports drama, a swim coach must work overtime to turn his wimpy swim team into champions. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1979
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1965
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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1965
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One of the busiest directors of westerns at this time, Edward L. Cahn helms this uninspired saddle saga about love and...
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1960
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A veritable honor roll of famed western heroes and villains appears in the fanciful oater Badman's Country. It all begins...
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Wyatt Earp
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1958
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In this western, a circuit rider endeavors to warn the cavalry after he sees masked men cruelly abusing an Indian band. En...
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1957
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1957
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Gun Brothers is a rehash of the "Cain and Abel" motif that has been popular amongst screenwriters since time immemorial....
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Chad
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1956
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Capt. Gallant
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1956
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Combined here are select episodes from two popular '50s TV serials which often appeared on Saturday mornings across the U.S....
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1955
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Capt. Gallant
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1955
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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This featurized abridgement of Universal's 12-episode serial Buck Rogers stars Buster Crabbe as Dick Calkins' famed...
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Colonel Buck Rogers
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1953
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In this convoluted adventure serial, a U.S. Air force captain begins searching for some stolen microfilm that contains vital...
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1952
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Number three in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series was the misleadingly titled Captive Girl. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Jim,...
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Barton
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1950
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Buster Crabbe stars in this Columbia serial about a modern-day "Flying Dutchman" ghost ship. Costarring are Tristram Coffin,...
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Jeff Drake
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1950
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Caged Fury was the last of three Pine-Thomas productions tradeshown in Los Angeles within the same February week in 1948. The...
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1948
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This western follows Billy the Kid on another shoot-em-up adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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Magua
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1947
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In the first of his three serials for Columbia Pictures, Larry "Buster" Crabbe starred as Captain Silver who, with his crew,...
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Captain Silver
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1947
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe was billed "King of the Wild West" in this the final entry in PRC's ultra low-budget "Billy Carson"...
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1946
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In this western, Billy Carson must help out his bumbling side kick after he involves himself in a land scam. ~ Sandra...
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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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Billy Carson
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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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Billy Carson
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1946
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Officially released one month before PRC's "Billy the Kid" entry Prairie Badmen, Ghost of Hidden Valley, another...
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Billy Carson
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1946
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This adventure, set upon the mighty Mississippi, features two former Tarzans. One of them is a river-boat captain who was...
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Mike Kalavich
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1946
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Sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) finds himself in deep trouble with the law in this above-average entry in PRC's Billy...
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Billy Carson
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1946
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An otherwise typically cheesy Billy "the Kid" Carson B-Western series entry from Poverty Row studio PRC, His Brother's Ghost...
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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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Billy Carson
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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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The most thrilling aspect of the PRC oater Lightning Raiders is the film's title. Though Buster Crabbe earns top billing as...
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Billy Carson
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1945
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John -- "Our Old Pals," as they were billed -- get in trouble with a murderous Charles King...
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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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Billy Carson
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1945
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Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) discovers that he may be an heir to a ranch in this ho-hum entry in PRC's Billy Carson Western...
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Billy Carson
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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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Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (or "Our Old Pals", as they were invariably billed) star in the PRC western Blazing Frontier....
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Billy the Kid
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1944
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This PRC "Billy the Kid" western once more teams Buster Crabbe, as Billy Carson, with Al St.John, as perennial sidekick Fuzzy...
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Billy Carson
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1944
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In this drama, a truck driver will do almost anything to keep his son in a prestigious military academy. To pay the tuition,...
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Gary
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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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Larry "Buster" Crabbe, as Billy Carson, and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) decide to turn in their spurs and instead...
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1944
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In this campy jungle adventure, an embezzler's daughter is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Hurt and afraid, the woman is...
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Ray Gorman
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1944
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In this western, Billy the Kid must convince Fuzzy not to leave the trail. Fuzzy tries anyway and buys a small-town...
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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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Billy Carson
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1944
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Rustler's Hideout is more of the same from PRC's resident cowboy stars Buster Crabbe and Al St. John. Cast once again as...
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Billy Carson
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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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Billy Carson
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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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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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Billy Carson,Drifter Davis
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1944
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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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Billy Carson
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1944
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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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1943
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Cattle Stampede was the 200th production of that legendary B-picture mill, PRC Studios. Buster Crabbe plays Billy the Kid...
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Billy the Kid
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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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Billy the Kid
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1943
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In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid...
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Billy the Kid
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1943
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There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this...
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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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Billy the Kid
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1942
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In this western, Billy the Kid confronts an evil con artist who has been trying to gull two children out of their inherited...
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1942
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One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of...
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Mike Rawlins
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1942
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Larry "Buster" Crabbe's "Billy the Kid" is once again unfairly accused of a crime and on the run with friends Fuzzy Q. Jones...
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1942
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Burlesque stripper-turned-thespian Ann Corio plays yet another white girl brought up in the jungle after her missionary...
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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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Billy the Kid,Kansas Ed
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1942
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Billy
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1942
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Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and...
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Billy the Kid
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1942
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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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Buster Crabbe is Billy Carson and Al St. John is Fuzzy Q. Jones in this formula PRC western. Riding into a wide-open town,...
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Billy the Kid
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Buster Crabbe is a doctor, accompanying a shipment of fever serum to a remote jungle village. The ship is torpedoed by a...
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1941
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Buster Crabbe makes his first appearance as frontier do-gooder Billy Carson in PRC's Billy the Kid Wanted. The film also...
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Billy the Kid
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1940
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All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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In this entry in the "Flash Gordon" sci-fi series, the ever wicked Ming causes the dreaded space plague "The Purple Death,"...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough...
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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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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Dave Haines
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1939
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After starring in two successful serials as All-American Boy in Outer Space Flash Gordon, Larry "Buster" Crabbe found himself...
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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1939
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Based on the character created by sci-fi writer, Phil Nolan, this feature has the space-age hero facing a number of...
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1939
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Universal Pictures' second Flash Gordon serial was even more opulent than its first, offering better special effects, more...
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Flash Gordon
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1938
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Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role....
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Red Barry
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1938
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You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash...
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays...
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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1938
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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Flash Gordon
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1938
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A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide...
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1937
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Nevada
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1937
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In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive...
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Steve Clayson
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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Andrew Sleete
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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Eddie
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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1937
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Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket"...
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Moya
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1936
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Laramie Nelson
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1936
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Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis,...
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Slinger Dunn
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1936
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In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his...
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Flash Gordon
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1936
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1936
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Jake
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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Ossie Merrill
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1936
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In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil...
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1936
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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Flash Gordon
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1936
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Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in...
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Talbott
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1936
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Nevada
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1936
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Hector Wilmot
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1935
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Big Ben
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1935
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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Don Jackson
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1934
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From low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp., this robust action-melodrama starred Larry "Buster" Crabbe as an oil prospector whose...
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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Bill
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1934
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Buster Crabbe plays one of his more offbeat roles in Mayfair's Badge of Honor. Crabbe is cast as Bob Gordon, a spoiled...
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Bob Gordon
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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1934
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W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is...
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Bob Murchison
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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Bill Hayden
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1933
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If MGM could cast an Olympic champion it its Tarzan series, so could Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures. Thus it was that...
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Tarzan
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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Kaspa, the Lion Man
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1933
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This musical romance is set upon a college campus and centers on a coquettish coed who promises her dates more than she cares...
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Bob North
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1933
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Man of the Forest is based on a Zane Grey story, previously filmed in 1921 and 1926. The title character is two-fisted...
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1933
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Bill Hatch
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1933
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1932
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