Lifelong parasite Rachel Gordon (Phyllis Hill) will be cut off without a cent by her rich Uncle Abner (Richard Hale) unless...
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1964
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Although he no longer works for the insurance company that had hired him to track down the stolen Jokarta Diamond, shady...
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1964
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Recovering alcoholic William Sherwood (Peter Breck) falls off the wagon when he sees his wife Ruth (Janet Dey)--who was...
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1964
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Declared legally dead, Trevor Harris (David McLean) suddenly appears out of nowhere to be at the bedside of his dying wife....
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1963
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Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an...
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1963
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Way back in 1942, the ex-husband of Angela Fernaldi left her baby at an orphanage. Twenty years have passed, and now Angela...
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1962
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Schoolteacher and maritime historian Philip Andrews (Jeremy Slate) incurs the wratch of shipping-company owner Ben Farraday...
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1962
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John Fox Jr.'s popular 1906 novel has been filmed several times, and converted into a number of theatrical presentations. The...
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1961
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Flamboyant mob chief Eddie Candell (Ron Randell), who was framed for murder by jealous associate Andy Damon (Anthony Caruso),...
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1961
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Playboy Loring Lamont (Tony Travis) lures his father's secretary Arlene Ferris (Andra Martin) to his beach house, with...
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1961
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It looks like suicide when hasbeen concert pianist David Carpenter (Gregory Morton) plunges off a cliff. Then the suspicion...
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1960
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In big trouble after delivering some "hot" money, Lucy Stevens (Connie Hines) fakes her own suicide by driving her empty car...
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1960
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High-fashion diva Flavia Halliday (Marie Windsor) humiliates her husband Charles (John Conte) on network television by flatly...
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1960
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Winning a high-stakes poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) finds himself the owner of the Lucky Lady Saloon in Santa Leora. But when...
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1960
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Jo Ann Blanchard (Patricia Hardy) seeks the help of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) in reclaimed her ranch and her prize stallion,...
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1959
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A man claiming to be Australian Bishop Arthur Mallory (Vaughn Taylor) arranges a reunion between orphanage alumnus Carol...
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1959
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Perennial loser Larry Benton (Wynn Pearce) is convinced that he has killed a guy named Mike during a poker-game argument....
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1959
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Much to her astonishment, Eva Martell (played by Maggie Mahoney, the mother of Oscar-winning actress Sally Field) is paid...
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1959
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Determined to win Claire Allison (Mala Powers) for himself, no-good Martin Selkirk (Dennis Patrick) has Claire's boyfriend...
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1959
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Four terrifying stories from The Veil television series are introduced by Boris Karloff with titles "Summer Heat," "Vision of...
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1958
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Harriet Bain (Virginia Vincent) is accused of murdering J.J. Stanley (James Bell), the man who had embezzled a huge sum of...
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1958
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The greedy relatives of wealthy Daniel Reed (Edgar Stehli) want to have him committed to a mental institution, using as...
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1958
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A recent plague has decimated virtually all the crops in a farming community. The only rancher whose crops were spared is Max...
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1958
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Like many American International films of its era, How to Make a Monster was sold to distributors on the basis of its title...
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1958
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In Richard Cunha's Giant from the Unknown, scientists come upon a petrified lizard in the California Mountains. The lizard...
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Prof. Cleveland
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1958
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Accused of murdering her Uncle Martin (Alexander Price), Nadine Marshall (Christine White) makes a detailed confession of the...
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1958
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1958
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Although the trial of young Theodore Balfour (Tyler MacDuff), who was accused of killing his father Lawrence (Bruce Bennett),...
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1958
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Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry....
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1958
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Another example of a fairly interesting Japanese monster film rendered nearly incomprehensible by ham-fisted editing and...
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1958
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1958
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Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation...
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1958
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Philip Larkin (Terry Becker) is murdered, and his stepfather Joseph Harrison (John Hoyt) is charged with the crime. A key...
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1958
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There's no shortage of suspects when vitriolic society columnist Mary K. Davis (Marian Seldes) is murdered. Even so, the...
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1958
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3DFrontier Gun3D is another of the moderately interesting low-budget westerns turned out by 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films...
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1958
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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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1958
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A alien satellite enters close orbit around the Earth and releases a projectile that takes over the body and mind of Dr....
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Dr. Albert R. Stern
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1957
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Convicted murderer Clete Overton (Ed Kemmer) escapes from jail on the eve of his hanging. Bart tries to prove Cleve's...
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1957
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The plot of The Brain from Planet Arous has something to do with a huge floating brain which takes over the body of nuclear...
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1957
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Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar...
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1957
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Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War....
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Calder
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1957
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Scientist Mitch McAfee (Jeff Morrow) cannot convince anyone that an enormous bird, evidently here from outer space, has...
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Lt. Gen. Edward Lewis
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1957
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Quickie king Sam Katzman's Zombies of Mora Tau is a game attempt to imitate what Roger Corman was doing so well over at...
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Jonathan Eggert
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1957
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In order to get rid of her husband Bruce's mistress Roxy Howard (Greta Thyssen), Sybil Granger hires Perry (Raymond Burr) to...
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1957
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Produced by Bert I. Gordon, The Beginning of the End is a menacing onslaught of giant-sized grasshoppers. Department of...
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Lt. Gen. Arthur Hanson
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1957
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This wide-screen Republic western is yet another retelling of the James Brothers saga--albeit one with a few unexpected...
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1957
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Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a...
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Gen. Hanley
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1956
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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1956
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Fury at Gunsight Pass is a brief, to-the-point "budget" western, well cast and excitingly staged. David Brian stars as bank...
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1956
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1956
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In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when...
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1956
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Not to be confused with the popular David Zuckor comedy from the late '80s that starred Leslie Nielson, 1956's Naked Gun...
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1956
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Walk the Proud Land is the true story of Indian agent John Philip Clum, as set down on paper by Clum's son. The film begins...
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1956
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In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison....
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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Carolyn Grant (Marie Windsor), a Monterey gallery owner, is playing the field and seems to have one too many men on her...
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1955
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Edgar Buchanan enjoys a rare top-billed assignment in Lippert's The Silver Star. The film's leading man, however, is one...
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1955
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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1955
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Reviled in his lifetime as a lunatic insurrectionist, Chief Crazy Horse has in recent years emerged as a Native American...
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1955
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Six convicts plan a prison break and are successful, though their ringleader (William Bendix) is injured in the attempt. He...
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
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1955
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1954
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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1954
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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1954
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Grey Eagle
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1954
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Mitzi Gaynor was contractually awarded with top billing in 20th Century-Fox's Three Young Texans, but the film's true star is...
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1954
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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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Sheriff Jackson
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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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In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks...
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1954
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1954
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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Filmed on location in Utah, The Outlaw Stallion top-bills Phil Carey and Dorothy Patrick, but the star of the proceedings is...
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1954
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1954
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Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the...
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1954
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Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years...
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1953
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RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona...
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1953
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Bob Danvers, an arrogant, irresponsible rodeo star, retaliates for losing his wife by having an affair with a pretty fan in...
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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1953
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Fort Vengeance starts out as a western and ends up as a "northern." Trouble-making brothers Dick (James Craig) and Carey...
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1953
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Dan Duryea essays a rare sympathetic role in the Columbia programmer Sky Commandos. At first glance, however, Duryea seems to...
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1953
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Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash,...
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1952
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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1952
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Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of...
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1952
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Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort...
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Arthur Pickett
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1952
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Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences....
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1952
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When Vincent Edwards attained TV stardom as "Ben Casey" in 1961, his detractors took great delight in citing Edwards' earlier...
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1952
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It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception....
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1952
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1952
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A husband-and-wife scientist team (Peter Graves, Andrea King) are experimenting with a "hydrogen tube" invention (which he...
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1952
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Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western Along the Great Divide. Feeling responsible for...
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1951
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When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The...
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Hugh Wagner
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1951
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Flight to Mars is the second American film of the postwar era (after the previous year's Rocketship X-M) to depict a manned...
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1951
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The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and...
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1951
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Bomba the Jungle Boy--aka Johnny Sheffield--makes his fifth screen appearance in Monogram's Lion Hunters. Bomba's task this...
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Forbes
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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1950
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Glenn Ford and Rhonda Fleming star in The Redhead and the Cowboy, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out who plays what....
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Sheriff
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1950
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A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime...
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1950
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This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the investigation of dope smugglers on the Mexican border. Americans...
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1950
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In the tradition of 20th Century Fox's semi-documentary "Now it can be told" films, Monogram Picture's "A" division Allied...
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Eugene Deane
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1950
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A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak,...
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1950
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Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer...
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1950
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This second-echelon Humphrey Bogart vehicle casts Bogie as a bomber pilot who becomes a free-lance flyboy after the war....
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1950
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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Ex-navy pilot Slattery (Richard Widmark) works for a dope-smuggling ring. When he's not in the air, Slattery is making time...
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as revolutionary-minded Tony Fenner. A member of an...
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1949
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Deanna Durbin's career was clearly on the downswing when she starred in For the Love of Mary. Durbin plays a switchboard...
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1948
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In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a...
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Mr. Higby
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1948
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1948
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) has begun seeing a psychiatrist to treat her overwhelming guilt. It seems that Marise was...
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Martin
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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1947
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Dean Griswold
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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Mr. Phillips
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1947
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MGM's "Maisie" series came to an end with this undistinguished entry. Eschewing show business for the time being, perennially...
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1947
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MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The...
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1947
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source...
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1946
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Frank Morgan plays a turn-of-the-century shipbuilder who dies of a sudden heart attack. Morgan is summoned to Heaven by the...
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1946
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Fowles
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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1946
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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The Hidden Eye was the second of two MGM films featuring mystery writer Baynard Kendrick's blind detective Duncan McLain. As...
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1945
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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1944
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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1944
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MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing...
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1944
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Inspired by the success of his favorite comedian Red Skelton, Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a...
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female...
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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1944
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation....
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1943
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In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate...
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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Like most of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne"detective series, Time to Kill was based on a source other than Brett...
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1942
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Having done just fine at the box office with 1942's Apache Trail, MGM turned out another "pocket" western, The Omaha Trail....
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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In one of his best early Westerns, Tim Holt avenges the accidental shooting of his father by robbing the Cedar Fork bank, who...
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Red
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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1941
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Not quite a B western but certainly no "A", Road Agent is kept alive by the boisterous byplay of stars Dick Foran,...
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1941
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One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur...
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1941
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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1941
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first...
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1941
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Producer Harry Sherman once again brought the "Hopalong Cassidy" unit to picturesque Lone Pine, CA, and the result was yet...
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Ace Gibson
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1941
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The cast and crew of Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" Westerns returned once again to Lone Pine's famous Alabama Hills for this...
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Joe Weller
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1941
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Stephen Westcott
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1941
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The Showdown was the second 1940 entry in Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. William Boyd (who else?) stars as...
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Baron Rendor
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1940
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Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling into the 1940s with Knights of the Range. Taking a break from the studio's...
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Gamecock
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1940
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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1940
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1940
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The three men of the title in this superior B-Western are Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), Lucky Jenkins (Russell Hayden),...
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Morgan
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1940
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Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in...
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Nat Hayworth
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1940
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After several overlong "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Rustler's Valley brings things back under control with a short-and-sweet...
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1937
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Superior locations, above-average direction, better than usual lighting and competent acting were the ingredients that made...
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1937
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Hills of Old Wyoming was the 10th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" series, and at 79 minutes one of the longest of the batch...
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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1937
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The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William Boyd as the...
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1936
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Trail Dust was the eighth entry in the 66-film "Hopalong Cassidy" series. William Boyd, of course, is Hoppy, while his...
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1936
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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