In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into...
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Director
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1968
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Writer/producer/director Oliver Drake made so many poverty-row pictures over a 40 year period that one suspects he wasn't a...
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Director
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1967
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In this B-picture western,Anthony Dexter, plays Billy the Kid, the outlaw of the title and a victim of society. The parson of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Dragoon Wells Massacre is a topnotch western from the Allied Artists factory. Barry Sullivan stars as wanted killer Link...
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Screen Story
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1957
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Criminal Arnold Woodman (Herburt Vigran) and his two confederates planet 20,000 dollars in stolen money on Inspector...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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Self-style western star John Carpenter is the "auteur" of the low-budget hayburner Outlaw Treasure. Carpenter not only stars...
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Director
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1955
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In his second-to-last Monogram Western, country & western singer Jimmy Wakely does hardly any singing at all as he and...
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Director
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1949
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Produced and directed by the veteran Oliver Drake and filmed at his ranch near Pearblossom, CA, this minor musical Western...
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Director
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1949
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A late entry in Monogram's Jimmy Wakely musical Western series, Brand of Fear features a nice performance by Gail Davis,...
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Director
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1949
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"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Director
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1949
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Monogram's four-year-old Jimmy Wakely western series began to wind down with Courtin' Trouble. As was customary, Jimmy does...
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Songwriter
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1949
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Ostensibly a Jimmy Wakely musical Western -- the singer's final starring vehicle -- The Lawless Code is really a showcase for...
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Director
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1949
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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His Pony Express job having come to an end due to the new telegraph, rider Sunset Carson joins telegraph operator Martha...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1948
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Produced in 1947 by Oliver Drake and Walt Mattox's Yucca Pictures Corp., the extremely low-budget Battling Marshal starred...
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Director
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Filmed back-to-back with three other Sunset Carson vehicles in 1947, this Yucca Pictures Western starred the former Republic...
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Director
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1948
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Filmed in 16 mm Kodachrome and produced by Gower Gulch company Yucca Pictures Corp., this no-budget Western featured former...
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Director
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1948
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Dog Ginger is a big part of her human family in this melodrama. ~ Rovi...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1947
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Produced in Kernville, California, this typical Jimmy Wakely singing Western from Monogram had the former radio troubadour...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Despite his unprepossessing screen personality, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was starred in a series of Monogram westerns, one...
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Director, Producer
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1946
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All-American singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely went below the border in this musical Western from the assembly line at Monogram,...
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Director
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1946
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In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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Director, Producer
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1946
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With a catchy title song co-written by the film's star and director, this Jimmy Wakely music Western got off to a lilting...
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Director, Producer
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1946
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An otherwise ordinary Monogram western songfest, this movie opens with a grizzly double homicide. Star Jimmy Wakely and...
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Director, Producer
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1945
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An above-average entry in the Jimmy Wakely singing cowboy series, this movie features a suspenseful murder mystery set on a...
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Director
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1945
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Director
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1945
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In this western, a young man infiltrates a vicious gang of bank robbers in order to capture his father's killer. ~ Sandra...
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Producer
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1945
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As was often the case, singing-cowboy star Jimmy Wakely wrote the title song to The Lonesome Trail, in which he also warbled...
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Director, Producer
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1945
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Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic western series starring...
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Producer
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1945
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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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Producer
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1944
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Screen Story
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1944
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U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ Rovi...
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Producer
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1944
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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Producer
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1944
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In this western, the good-guys keep the bad-guys from taking over the water-rights of a group of trail drivers in the Santa...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1944
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Trail of Terror is a PRC Studios western starring Dave O'Brien (here billed as Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Jim Newell. Texas...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1944
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The second of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" thrillers, Weird Woman stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Norman Reed, a college professor...
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Producer
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1944
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Songwriter
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1944
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A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to...
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Producer
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1943
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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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Producer
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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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Producer
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is...
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Producer
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1943
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A would-be Western epic soundly defeated by an almost nonexistent budget, West of Texas was the third of 22 "Texas Rangers"...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1943
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Another low-budget entry in PRC's interminable Texas Ranger series, Border Buckaroos is perhaps the only B-Western to...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Dusty Gardner, spokesmen for a group of hard-working cattlemen. As Gardner and his compatriots...
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Producer, Songwriter
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1943
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When cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown left Universal for Monogram, he also left one last western, Arizona Trail, unfilmed. Thus...
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Producer
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1943
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The Fighting Valley is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" westerns, with Dave O'Brien, Jim Newell and Guy Wilkerson as the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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Today I Hang has more going for it than most PRC Productions (including no fewer than two directors!), but in the end is laid...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1942
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In this western, a frontier detective disguised as an entertainer performs for the leader of an outlaw gang. At the same...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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In this, one of the last episodes of the Lone Rider series, the hero must prove himself innocent after his charged with the...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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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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Producer
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1942
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Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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Producer
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1942
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Hard Guy (British title: Professional Bride) stars singer Mary Healy (later of "Peter Lind Hayes and?" fame) as Julie, a...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Tim Holt plays a rancher named Drummond who runs up against a gang of crooked frontier land agents. When Drummond complains...
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Screen Story
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1941
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The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Part of the "Range Buster" series of westerns, this film follows the adventures of a couple of former criminals...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Guess what happens in the PRC western The Lone Rider Ambushed? Yes, he does get ambushed, but that's not all. Posing as his...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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The Pals of the Pecos are our old pals The Three Mesquiteers, portrayed herein by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke),...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the...
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Screen Story
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1941
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Trailing Double Trouble was the second entry in Monogram's "Range Busters" series. Ray Corrigan, John King and Max Terhune...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Don "Red" Barry may be the star of The Tulsa Kid, but the film's acting honors are won with nary a struggle by that shameless...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Controversy over ancient Spanish land grants takes center stage in this exciting George O'Brien Western from RKO. Presented...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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This formula western stars George O'Brien as a member of the Arizona Rangers, a quasi-vigilante society aimed at ridding the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The Three Mesquiteers ride again in the economical Republic sagebrusher Purple Vigilantes. The Mesquiteers in question are...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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1938's The Painted Desert borrows the title and precious little else from the 1931 western of the same name. Hero...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this western, a federal marshal is jumped and robbed while en route to Gunsight. He immediately follows the bandit, a...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Hit the Saddle has enjoyed more latter-day attention than most of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western films thanks to the...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Gene Autry is the star (but not the title character) of Oh, Susanna!, a Republic musical western. What plot there is consists...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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An early entry in Republic Pictures' popular "Three Mesqueteers" western series, Wild Horse Rodeo features Robert Livingston...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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One of the timelier Three Mesquiteers westerns, Gunsmoke Ranch was inspired by the Ohio and Mississippi river floodings of...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Heart of the Rockies launched Republic's second season of popular "Three Mesquiteers" westerns. Returning to the fold are...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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A superior Gene Autry Western in every way, Boots and Saddles features child prodigy Ra Hould (aka Ronald Sinclair) as...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this 20th-century western, hero Gene Autry uses his old-fashioned horse and six-shooter to foil the plans of cattle...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The Three Mesquiteers take on a group of frontier fascists in the zippy series entry Roarin' Lead. This being Season One of...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A typical Gene Autry everything-but-the-kitchen-sink musical Western, The Old Corral featured the spectacle of Autry getting...
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Songwriter
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1936
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In this western, Gene Autry plays a cowboy with a heart as big as Texas who heads for the city to try to raise money so that...
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Songwriter
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1936
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Ghost Town Gold was the second entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. Ray "Crash" Corrigan and...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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Screen Story
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1935
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Given a title like Sagebrush Troubadour, it virtually went without saying that the star of this 1935 western was singing...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Ann Rutherford, who would later rise to fame in the Andy Hardy series at M-G-M and in a number of musical roles, made one of...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Another of cowboy hero Bill Cody's low-grade horse operas for Spectrum Pictures, Cyclone Ranger casts the white-Stetsoned...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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The fifth of eight low-budget Westerns starring Lane Chandler, this Willis Kent production was apparently filmed at...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Written and directed by the prolific Oliver Drake, this low-budget Western starred Lane Chandler as a Texas Ranger battling a...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1934
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In this romantic western, a daring masked outlaw steals the gold from a crooked mining company and uses the loot to pay the...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1933
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The last of three Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Gower Gulch regular John R. Freuler, War of the Range featured the strapping...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1933
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This ultra-cheap murder mystery stars Jack Mulhall as Devlin, a dapper police detective with a quick wit and a way with the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie returned to the celluloid range after a five year absence with this low-budget Western, the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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The third in a series of six Jack Hoxie Westerns produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film featured the former...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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William Farnum toplines this drama, as a character known only as The Drifter. Employed as an itinerant lumberjack, he lands...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Filmed on-location at Lone Pine, CA, and thus looking a lot better than the average cheapie Western, Cheyenne Cyclone was the...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1932
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The third of Poverty Row producer Willis Kent's eight Lane Chandler Westerns, Battling Buckaroo was filmed on-location at the...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1931
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Hurricane Horseman was the first entry in cowboy star Lane Chandler's brief western series for Willis Kent Productions. In...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this western, an enraged cowboy seeks to avenge the murder of his father. He eventually confronts the guilty outlaw gang...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down...
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Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1930
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Tom Mix's penultimate silent western, this film was executive produced by Joseph P. Kennedy (the father of the president),...
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Screen Story
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1929
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FBO's little red-headed cowboy hero Buzz Barton and grizzled Frank Rice once again rights the wrongs of the West in this...
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Screen Story
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1929
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Colonel Tim McCoy, M-G-M's only series Western star, played a Pony Express rider in this well-produced but otherwise average...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Rejected as husband material by a snobbish rancher (Ethlyne Clair), cowboy Tom O'Brien (Tom Tyler) nevertheless comes to the...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this Red Hepner series entry, FBO's plucky boy rider Buzz Barton, as Red, saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins...
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Screen Story
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1929
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Productive western writer Oliver Drake wrote this average silent oater about a boy hero, who saves a wagon train from an...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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In this one of his many well-made but routine FBO Westerns, Tom Tyler played a federal agent impersonating "The Raven" (Harry...
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Screen Story
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1928
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Duke Carlton (Tom Tyler), a former ranch-hand-turned-touring-company-actor, finds himself stranded when his manager takes off...
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Screen Story
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1928
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Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele stars in this minor Western from action melodrama factory Film Booking Office (later...
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Editor, Screenwriter
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1928
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FBO's handsome New York-born cowboy Tom Tyler plays a pacifist lawman who only uses his fists and a dangerous-looking whip to...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro (Dorothy Kitchen) is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez (former...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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The chemistry between cowboy hero Tom Tyler and juvenile sidekick Frankie Darro saved this otherwise commonplace FBO Western...
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Continuity, Screen Story
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1928
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Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele starred in his pleasant oater about a cowboy searching for his mysteriously vanished...
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Continuity, Screen Story
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1927
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Thoroughly geared for the small fry, this pleasant silent western starred the strapping Tom Tyler, freckled boy actor...
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Screen Story
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1927
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