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1942
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Columbia's Ellery Queen series called it quits with the timely 1942 entry Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen. The eponymous enemy...
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1942
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This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing husband, a banker. As he...
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1942
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In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get...
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1941
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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1941
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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1940
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Good-ol' sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a...
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1940
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Silent-screen leading lady Dolores Costello adds a touch of class to the threadbare Jack Holt vehicle Whispering Enemies....
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1939
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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In this western, a U.S. marshal impersonates an outlaw and rides to Texas to find the looters who have been raiding supply...
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1939
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Following up his movie portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Elliot stars as famed trailblazer John "Frontier" Freeman in...
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1939
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In this actioner, a hardened cowboy decides to stop studying law and become a Texas state trooper instead. At the governor's...
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1939
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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1939
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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1939
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One thing was always certain in Columbia's Jack Luden westerns: the supporting cast would include Hal Taliaferro, or...
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama, a man is appointed warden at a boys reformatory on the condition that he can keep unwanted...
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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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1938
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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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1938
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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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1938
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In this western, a looter finds an abandoned, empty mine and begins claiming that he has found the mother lode. Soon,...
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1938
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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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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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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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1937
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Ranger Courage was part of Columbia's short-lived western series starring utility actor Bob Allen. Allen plays the ranger of...
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1937
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Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various...
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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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In this outdoor drama, a plucky young woman inherits her father's logging business and decides to try running it, even...
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1937
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In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them...
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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1937
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Inheriting the props, costumes and much of the stock footage from Columbia's previous Ken Maynard series, Bob Allen rides...
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1937
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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1937
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Columbia general purpose actor Bob Allen was briefly transformed into a cowboy for the studio's "B" unit in the mid-1930s....
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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 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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Ken Maynard goes the Zorro route in this lethargic Western produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia. Ailing rancher Cal Pierson...
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1936
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Ken Maynard saves Geneva Mitchell from a runaway coach in the opening of this so-so Columbia western. The victim of a stage...
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1936
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The opening sequence of this Ken Maynard Western is spectacular: Attempting to save heroine Beth Marion from the ubiquitous...
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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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Still hanging on in 1935 despite several financial setbacks, brave little Majestic Pictures continued turning out such...
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1935
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When a playboy becomes entangled in the affairs of gamblers he eventually locates an underwater treasure. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this western, a wagon train is destroyed and all but two children, a brother and sister, are slaughtered. The sister is...
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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After a burst of creativity in 1933 and 1934, independent Majestic Pictures had settled into the usual "B"-picture rut by...
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1935
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Ken Maynard's western series for Columbia was a mixed bag indeed, with Western Courage neither the best nor worst of the...
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1935
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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1935
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In his penultimate Western, former silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie plays The Sonora Kid, an outlaw who, to spare an old blind...
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1933
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Former silent screen cowboy star Jack Hoxie played a Pony Express rider in this, the fourth of six low-budget oaters produced...
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1933
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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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The third in a series of six Jack Hoxie Westerns produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film featured the former...
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1932
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Silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie returned to the celluloid range after a five year absence with this low-budget Western, the...
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1932
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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1931
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