Largely filmed in Canada, The Littlest Hobo was the result of a brainstorming session between Dorrell and Stuart McGowan,...
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1958
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Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the...
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1957
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In this action film, an officer is thrown off the force by his father the chief of police. The bitter ex-cop then joins a...
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Ellen
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1941
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The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be...
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as...
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Marcia
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1940
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Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the...
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Joby
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1940
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Young Buffalo Bill was one of a brief series of Roy Rogers "historical westerns" of the early 1940s. Per the title, Rogers...
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Tonia Regas
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1940
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Brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in this Western set during the Civil War. Posing as a Union officer, Don Mason,...
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Lylah Sanford
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1940
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Movie buffs are nearly unanimous in agreement: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is the best of the Sidney Toler "Charlie Chan"...
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Eve Cairo
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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Ann Rutledge
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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Lady Constance
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1939
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Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all...
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1939
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Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose...
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Mary
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1939
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of...
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Caroline Reed
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1938
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Mary Jane Clayton
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1938
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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1938
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1937
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In this actioner, an auto racer becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by avaricious gangsters trying...
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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Betty Adams
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1937
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Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th...
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Ruth Morris
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1937
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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Elsa
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1937
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1934
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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1931
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