This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son...
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1990
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There's not much doubt this film's a direct descendant of Schwarzenegger's Terminator classic, though it's certainly a...
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1989
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Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as...
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1988
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The sequel to Saturday the 14th, this horror-comedy traces the adventures of nice-guy teen Eddie Baxter (Jason Presson) as he...
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1988
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Sometimes kids like to do things to gross out or shock their parents. This is only natural, but many companies exploit this...
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1987
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Rick (Larry Manetti) is arrested for the murder of a hit man who had been hired to kill the missing Ice Pick (Elisha Cook...
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1987
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In this conclusion of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) attempts to escape from a chain gang in order to be reunited...
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1987
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A cheesy rubber-suit monster flick from Wisconsin -- where they should know a thing or two about cheese. When a lazy local...
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Dr. John Warren
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1984
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Ralph Bakshi's last stab at epic fantasy takes place shortly after the Ice Age. The evil queen Juliana (voice of...
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1983
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Husband, father, rapist. All three succinctly describe the character portrayed by David Soul in the made-for-TV Rage. Though...
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1980
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1979
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Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) picks up a fast $10,000 by renting the Hazzard County Jail to mob kingpin Big Jack Bender (Paul...
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1979
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A slick sports promoter (Ray Walston) convinces Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) that he has genuine talent as a wrestler. It...
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1979
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In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single "TV movie"), glamorous socialite Kendall Warren...
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1979
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In the opening episode of The Rockford Files' fifth season, Jim Rockford (James Garner) wants to know why his dad Rocky (Noah...
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1978
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In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour TV movie), Jim (James Garner) is frustrated...
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1978
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In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "TV movie"), Jim (James Garner) tries to save...
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1978
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A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star, but finds that along the way, her single-minded...
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1976
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About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books...
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1976
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The initials in the episode's title stand for "Grand Theft Auto", and that particular crime is what occupies the time of...
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Screenwriter
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1975
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A young Mark Harmon appears as Gus Corbin, a rookie cop with whom veteran mobile officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is...
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Screenwriter
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1975
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The made-for-TV Barbary Coast is a tongue-in-cheek western in the Maverick tradition, produced by a former writer-director of...
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1974
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Adam-12 moved from a Wednesday to a Tuesday-night timeslot with this episode, in which an out-of-uniform Jim Reed (Kent...
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1974
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Laurence Luckinbill is cast as novice diamond smuggler James Danzer, who while eluding the FBI searches high and low for a...
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1974
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Former B-western leading man Donald Barry guest stars as Charlie Bishop, an ex-convict who has ended up on skid row. Relaying...
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Screenwriter
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1974
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Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody...
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1973
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Several good actors are laid low by the tawdriness of Bonnie's Kids. The title characters, played by Tiffany Bolling and...
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1973
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Israeli-born actor Nehemiah Persoff guests in this episode as Angelo Covelli, an immigrant Italian tailor. Signor Covelli has...
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Screenwriter
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1972
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During a particularly oppressive heat wave, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) answer several...
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1972
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The premiere episode of Streets of San Francisco follows veteran SFPD detective lieutenant Mike Stone (Karl Malden) in his...
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1972
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Comedian Shelley Berman) guest stars as a crooked Hollywood agent who is running a scam with a sexy starlet (Katie O'Price)....
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1971
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Veteran movie heavy (and prolific screenwriter) Leo Gordon guest stars as Jennings Thornton, a wealthy "police buff" who...
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1971
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As the Ottoman Empire collapses throughout Turkey in 1922, a number of adventurers from all over the world sign on to protect...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In the town of Smithville, Joe Cartwright's life is saved by Tracy Blaine (Robert Drivas), who then manages to sweet-talk his...
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1968
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Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) is the straight-shooting marshall of Gloryhole, Montana. Wealthy rancher Rep Marlowe...
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1968
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Big bad bikers butt heads with a small-town sheriff in this bargain-basement sleaze-fest. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1967
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U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine...
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1967
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the...
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1967
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Arthur Hiller directed this exciting World War II drama starring Rock Hudson as Major Donald Craig of the British North...
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1966
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Christopher Wren's classic adventure story is brought to the screen for the third time in this version, which featured...
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1966
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A small town is terrorized by a grizzly bear in this uninspired western. Jim Cole {Clint Walker} must defend his inherited...
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1966
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A veteran sea captain (Lino Ventura) is blamed for the disappearance of a ship when the vessel is hijacked by gunrunners....
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Morrison
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1965
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The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000...
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1965
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Held in thrall by a gang of rustlers, the local cattleman's association hires a professional gunman named Simmons (Robert...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1965
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An aspiring senator finds himself in deep trouble when he tangles with a sultry teenage girl gone bad in this campy drama....
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1964
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Ezra Weeden
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1963
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A decidedly pre-All in the Family Carroll O'Connor stars as freight line owner Tom Slayden. Using underhanded and...
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Screenwriter
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1963
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In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier...
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Screenwriter
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1963
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In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is...
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1963
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Andy learns to his chagrin that ex-convict Luke Comstock (Leo Gordon) is coming back to Mayberry. Inasmuch as Andy was...
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Luke Comstock
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1963
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George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory,...
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1963
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One of a seemingly endless production of Tarzan movies -- still going strong decades later-- this tale by director and...
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Bryce
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1962
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Will Kuluva guest-stars as General Diaz, a self-styled Mexican patriot who raids gold shipments in order to finance his...
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1962
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Roger Corman's stripped-down remake of Universal's 1939 period classic elevates that film's supporting player Vincent Price...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1962
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In this war drama set during the Korean War, a grizzled GI must undertake a potentially suicidal mission. He decides not to...
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Dockman
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1962
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Jack Kelly plays a dual role in this episode, as frontier gambler Bart Maverick and his exact lookalike, vicious outlaw Red...
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1961
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1961
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Whenever the betwiching Roxane Berard guest-stars on Maverick, there's bound to be some elegant larceny, with at least one...
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Screenwriter
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1961
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The Intruder was not only Roger Corman's most daring and unusual film, but a unique movie in the history of cinema, as one of...
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1961
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Riding into a dusty Arkansas town, Paladin is greeted with the spectacle of a man chained in the street. The hapless prisoner...
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1961
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En route to Monterey, Paladin (Richard Boone) is detained by a group of men who let him pass only when satisfied that he has...
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1960
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In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Bart (Jack Kelly) witnesses the murder (or more accurately, the execution) of a wine...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Behind his respectable veneer as owner of the posh Jockey Club, Dink Conway (David Brian) is actually in charge of all...
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1960
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1960
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1960
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Weakly etched characters are one of the problems in this simple story of three thieves on the run. Wayne (John Hudson), Jan...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Beau (Roger Moore) finds himself in the middle of some deadly intrigue (not to mention a bitter family feud) when he wins...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Nehemiah Persoff, who appeared in the premiere Untouchables episode as mob accountant Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, returns to...
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1960
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This goofy but entertaining horror cheapie from producer-director Roger Corman and company involves the efforts of a...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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This hysterical drive-in favorite pits a community of swamp-dwelling yokels against the silliest-looking monsters since the...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Ben Cartwright finds out that Mark Burdette (Barry Sullivan) and Early Thorne (Leo Gordon) have been illegally slaughtering...
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1959
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Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man's...
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1959
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This trite, low-budget Western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Wealthy widow Matilda Benson (Kathryn Givney) rules over her children like a dowager empress, threatening to cut them out of...
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1959
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Diane Brewster makes her first appearance as Samantha Crawford, a larcenous lass who proves to be quite a handful for Bret...
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1959
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This episode is essentially a showcase for singer Peggy King, who receives a rare "guest star" billing in the opening credits...
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1959
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Set in the Kansas territory during the middle of the 19th century, this is a visually evocative but conventional western. The...
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1959
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Deranged killer Bert Talman (Leo Gordon) escapes from prison and murders four people in the town of Yucca Bend. Curious as to...
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1959
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A wandering cowboy endeavors to save a wagon train from an Apache attack in this western that is based upon a Louis L'Amour...
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1958
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Widow Grace Wheeler (Joan Weldon) tells Bart (Jack Kelly) and his friend Big Mike (Leo Gordon) about a gold mine in Mexico....
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1958
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The oft-told tale of controversial Southern-sympathizing outlaw Quantrill is recounted again in this low-budget western....
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William Quantrill
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1958
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This odd drama features Jack Nicholson, then only 21-years old, in his first feature film. He plays a young delinquent who...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1958
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In this violent drama, a young juvenile delinquent gets into more trouble when he gets involved with a gang that steals auto...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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1958
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In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the...
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1958
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Audie Murphy heads the cast of the better-than-usual oater Ride a Crooked Trail. It all begins when gunslinger Joe Maybe...
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1958
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In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John...
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1958
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Of the many TV miniseries produced by Walt Disney for his various weekly anthologies of the '50s and '60s, only Tales of...
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1958
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Screenwriter, Hank Danner
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1957
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1957
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Created by Roy Huggins and debuting September 22, 1957 on ABC, the weekly, hour-long Maverick started out as a relatively...
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1957
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The premiere episode of Maverick opens with a characteristic grace-note from director Budd Boetticher, in which Bret Maverick...
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1957
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Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up...
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1957
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1957
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Paladin (Richard Boone) intervenes when he witnesses a gang of toughs harrassing Joseph Whitehouse (Anthony Caruso), a...
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1957
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Hank Miller
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1957
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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John Dillinger
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1957
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Another of director Allan Dwan's underrated but well-crafted westerns of the 1950s, The Restless Breed stars Scott Brady as a...
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1957
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Based on a novel by Gil Brewer, Lure of the Swamp top-bills Marshall Thompson as a Florida swamp guide. Thompson is hired by...
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1957
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Hank Miller
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1956
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1956
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The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak,...
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1956
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Strong acting and direction overcomes the more cliched aspects of Red Sundown. It all begins when gunslinger Alec Longmire...
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1956
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Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) welcomes his old friend Hack Prine (Leo Gordon) to Dodge City. What Dillon doesn't know is...
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1956
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1956
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Though the film's title may suggest otherwise, Seventh Cavalry takes place after Custer's Last Stand. Randolph Scott stars...
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1956
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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1956
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When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack)...
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1956
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1955
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In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but...
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1955
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The Man with the Gun in this well-paced western is played by Robert Mitchum. A notorious gunslinger, Mitchum has been hired...
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1955
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In Seven Angry Men, Raymond Massey stars as controversial 19th-century abolitionist John Brown, a role he'd previously...
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White
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1955
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The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary,...
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1955
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American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature...
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1954
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Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third...
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1954
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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The best film of Don Siegel's career to date, this surprisingly intelligent B-picture describes the dramatic arc of an...
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Carnie
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1954
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1954
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Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold...
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1954
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Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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1953
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Originally shot in 3-D, Gun Fury opens with wealthy rancher Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) and his fiancée Jennifer Ballard (Donna...
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1953
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In late 1944, an American guerilla unit led by Capt. Matt Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) learns that a Japanese plane carrying...
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Sgt. Hank Janowicz
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1953
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Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in...
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1953
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Hondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least,...
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1953
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