The Swing era conjures up images of sophisticated ladies, debonair gentlemen, and the big bands who entertained them with a...
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1987
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In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a...
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Director
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1954
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Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an...
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1953
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Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff...
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1953
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Considered by many the weakest of Wayne Morris' latter-day B-Westerns, The Marksman features the no longer svelte star as a...
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1953
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After a number of overproduced, overlong western "specials," Wild Bill Elliot went back to basics with a series of...
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1953
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The Waco depicted in this film is a wide-open Texas frontier town, in desperate need of a strong authority figure to clean...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny...
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1952
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1952
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Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the...
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1952
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Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for...
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1952
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The West is scared by an infamous gunslinger in this western film. ~ Rovi...
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1952
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Cowboy hero Wild Bill Elliot (whose trademark was wearing his six-shooters backwards in his holsters) stars in this oater....
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1952
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Though Ben Johnson would have to wait until the 1970s before full stardom was bestowed upon him, 1952's Wild Stallion proved...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never...
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1952
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Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time,...
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1951
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Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of...
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1951
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After several elaborate Republic western vehicles, William Elliot returns to the clean-cut minimalism of his "Wild Bill...
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1951
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Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at the Iverson Movie Ranch...
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1951
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The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller (I. Stanford Jolley), a greedy express agent and...
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1951
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1951
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As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent...
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1951
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A stage line is once again threatened by a greedy rival in this ultra low-budget western from small-scale Monogram Pictures....
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1951
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady,...
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1951
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The postwar hot-rod craze spawned a whole new movie subgenre. This Monogram entry, titled simply Hot Rod, stars Jimmy Lydon...
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1950
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The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid...
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1950
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Jim Bannon's final "Red Ryder" western was the Cinecolor effort Cowboy and the Prizefighter. Aiding and abetting the...
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1950
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Johnny Mack Brown follows his tried-and-true western formula in Law of the Panhandle. This time, U.S. Marshal Brown backs up...
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1950
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Though Eagle Lion's "Red Ryder" westerns were not as well received as the earlier entries from Republic, they still managed...
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1950
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Superman and Dick Tracy star in Jungle Goddess--or rather, the actors who played Superman and Dick Tracy, George Reeves and...
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Director
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1949
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Filmed in "glorious" Cinecolor by Eagle-Lion, this was the first of four "Red Ryder" westerns starring Jim Bannon in the...
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1949
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Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little...
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1949
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In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already...
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1947
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1947
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British character actor Lionel Atwill, in his final performance, appeared as a power-mad Englishman attempting to rule the...
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1946
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In this below-average western serial, a Texas ranger goes undercover as "The Scarlet Horseman," a legendary figure for the...
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1946
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1946
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Veteran action specialists Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins co-directed this below-average Universal serial featuring brunette...
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1945
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Based on the '30s comic-strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black-and-white adventure serial from Universal. This 1945...
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1945
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1945
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A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in this 13 chapter Universal...
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1944
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In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless...
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1944
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This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode...
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1944
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Directed by Lewis Collins and Ray Taylor, Raiders of Ghost City is a 13-chapter serial account revolving around the highly...
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1944
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Perennial second lead Una Merkel and radio dialect comedian Parkyakarkus team up in the Monogram musical fantasy Sweethearts...
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1944
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In this western, a group of avaricious businessman try to coerce settlers from their valuable land until a brave cowboy...
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1944
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In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante....
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1944
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A new invention, known as the Paratron and vitally important for America's war effort, becomes the focal point in yet another...
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1944
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Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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As the water from the underground is pushing the spikes upwards toward the trapped Smilin' Jack (Tom Brown), Axis spy...
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1943
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The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The...
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Director
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1943
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Four enterprising air cadets are suspected of a series of murders actually committed by The Black Hangman, a mysterious Nazi...
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1943
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1943
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In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land...
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1943
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Surviving the crash from the bridge with little more than scratches, Jack (Tom Brown), Tommy (Edgar Barrier), and Captain...
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Director
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1943
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Despite having shot Smilin' Jack (Tom Brown) at point-blank range in the conclusion of chapter 11, the opening of chapter 12...
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Director
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1943
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Although Smilin' Jack (Tom Brown) and his Chinese friends appeared to have crashed their vehicle in chapter three of the...
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Director
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1943
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In the opener of the 13-chapter Universal serial, Smilin' Jack (Tom Brown), an American aviator in the service of China, and...
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1943
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1943
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Using Wu Tan's advice on how to endure pain, Jack (Tom Brown) makes it across the pit of hot coals unscathed and is assigned...
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Director
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1943
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Rescued by the Hong Kong police from his water grave inside the wooden box, Smilin' Jack (Tom Brown) learns that all the...
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Director
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1943
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Although they appeared to have been blown up along with the Japanese ship in the eighth chapter of the Universal serial...
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Director
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1943
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Although he appeared to have been shot by Japanese agent Yoshudo (Jack Gardner) in chapter two of Universal's Adventures of...
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1943
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1942
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The Dead End Kids take on a sinister gang of Japanese terrorists in this 12-chapter followup to the 1940 Universal serial...
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Director
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1942
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It should be obvious to fans of husky, muscle-bound cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown that he does not play the title role in...
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Director
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1942
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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Director
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1941
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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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Director
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1941
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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Director
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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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Director
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1940
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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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Director
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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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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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1939
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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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Director
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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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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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Director
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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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When this politically charged crime drama came out in 1938, many viewers saw that the themes therein echoed those of the...
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1938
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1938
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Jack Holt does his usual Jack Holt thing in the Columbia quickie Flight into Nowhere. Holt is cast as airline pilot Jim Horne...
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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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Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly...
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1938
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Twenty-four-year-old Noah Beery Jr. heads the cast of Universal's The Mighty Treve. Beery, however, does not play the title...
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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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Director
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1937
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In this romance, a new man comes to a logging camp and learns of a conspiracy with a competitor. Unbeknownst to the other...
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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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Director
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1937
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Scott Colton, a good-looking young fellow whom Universal was grooming for stardom (unsuccessfully as it turned out) heads the...
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Director
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1937
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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Director
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1936
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In its first few years of existence, Republic Pictures evinced an eagerness to tackle any sort of offbeat subject. The...
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1936
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Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's...
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1936
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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1936
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Make a Million stars Charles Starrett in one of his last non-western roles, as idealistic college professor Jones. Because of...
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1935
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In this mystery, an international news correspondent is fatally shot with three bullets. Now three men stand accused of the...
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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Edward Eggleston's best-selling novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster was brought to the screen in 1935 by Monogram Pictures, which...
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1935
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An above-average cast makes up for the lack of production values in this, the second of 32 Bob Steele Westerns produced by...
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1934
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1934
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This bottom-barrel quickie is elevated by its cast, comprised chiefly of old silent-film favorites. Ralph Graves stars as...
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Director
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1934
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Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin'...
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1934
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In his first western, former football star Reb Russell plays Clint Mason, a young parolee returning to Bonanza City intent on...
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1934
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1933
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A cowboy (Jack Hoxie) and his partners are known as "trouble busters," men who look for adventure and help out people in...
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Director
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1933
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Monogram's Skyway stars Ray Walker in his usual role as a brash troublemaker who can't hold down a job. This time he's a...
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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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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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Filmed on-location at Lone Pine, CA, with interiors made at Hollywood's Talisman Studio, this low-budget Western was the...
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1932
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Befitting its title, the old-fashioned meller Law of the Tongs is set in wicked old Chinatown. This time, the criminal...
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1931
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Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by...
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1930
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1929
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