Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed....
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1975
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A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life...
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1973
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This sequel to the rampaging-rodent chiller Willard stars Lee H. Montgomery as young Danny Garrison, a neglected kid who...
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1972
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Captain Turner (Rock Hudson) is the American paratrooper who employs Italian children to blow up a strategic dam controlled...
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1970
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1968
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The Long Ride Home is the British title for the Columbia Civil War western A Time for Killing. The stars are Glenn Ford, a...
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1967
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Columbia Pictures tried to create a tongue-in-cheek American James Bond with this, the first of five motion pictures based on...
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1966
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1964
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In this adventure saga, animal trapper Harry Stanton (Robert Mitchum) is commissioned to bring back an exotic jungle cat by a...
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1963
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This musical boxing drama finds Walter (Elvis Presley) as a recently discharged soldier looking forwork in New York's...
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1962
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This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology...
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1961
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Shortly after Soviet tanks crush the 1956 Hungarian uprising, adventurer for hire Mike Reynolds (Richard Widmark) goes to...
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1961
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This is a well-wrought action-thriller with enough menacing violence to keep a shock value high, but not enough to overcome...
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1960
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This standard wartime drama is divided into three chronological segments and is based on the experiences of the real Guy...
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1960
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The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV...
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1959
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The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett,...
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1958
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The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has...
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1957
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In this film noir, five college students laughingly devise a perfect plan for robbing a casino in Reno. At first they do it...
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1955
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Tight Spot is based on Leonard Kantor's novel Dead Pigeon, which in turn was obviously inspired by Virginia Hill's appearance...
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1955
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Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot...
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1955
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Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from...
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1955
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1954
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Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world championship. He's now forced to...
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1953
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1952
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Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery...
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1952
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After Columbia's 1951 biopic Valentino laid an egg, leading man Anthony Dexter was persona non grata at the studio. Still,...
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1952
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1952
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Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of...
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1951
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia...
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1951
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Iroquois Trail (British title: The Tomahawk Trail) could be classified as a western, but for the fact that the story is set...
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1950
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In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a...
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1949
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A frequent cable-TV attraction since lapsing into public domain in 1976, The Big Cat is an excellent outdoor drama,...
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1949
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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In this children's move, a teenager and his loyal dog wander the wild West. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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In this off-beat western, a middle-aged rancher endeavors to realize his dreams of starting up a horse ranch in Texas. His...
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1948
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Stagecoach driver Bishop needs to capture the infamous bandit known as "The Monk" for his hooded attire. If Bishop can't...
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1948
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The popular wartime catchphrase "Kilroy Was Here" was affixed to this minor campus comedy. Jackie Cooper plays peripatetic...
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1947
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A sharecropper's son grows up to be the governor of Louisiana in this rags-to-riches bio-pic that tells the story of...
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1947
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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1947
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The Shadow (Richmond) investigates the murder of an art dealer with his only clue being a stolen jade statuette. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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In this musical, a struggling young singer falls in love with a nightclub owner whose father mistakes her for someone else...
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1946
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Although Bowery Bombshell was the third entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series, it was released second in several regions....
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1946
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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1945
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There Goes Kelly is a followup of sorts to Monogram's 1943 comedy Here Comes Kelly, with Jackie Moran taking over for Eddie...
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1945
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Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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1945
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Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and...
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1944
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