The visual similarity of many Hollywood western sets is far from accidental: a bulk of them (thousands of features, plus...
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1960
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One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the...
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1958
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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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1957
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Rory Calhoun both starred in and put up the money for the Columbia oater The Domino Kid. As the title character, Calhoun's...
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1957
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1955
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Killer Ape is one of the most violent entries in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. In this outing, Jim (Johnny Weissmuller)...
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1953
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Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist in the jungle who stumbles across a couple of comedians (intended to resemble Dean Martin...
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1952
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Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers'...
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1950
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Eight-year-old Beau Bridges essayed his first leading role in Zamba. Bridges plays a young boy who, with his mother...
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1949
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"An All-Star Cast" (well, that's what the credits say) helps bring a confusing tale of shenanigans in the jungle to the...
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1947
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Alan Curtis plays a hired Union agent who's been dispatched to capture a Confederate gal who's the leader of some ravaging...
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1946
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Columbia Pictures, as usual, cast a lesser-known player -- in this case the handsome but rather stolid Robert Lowery -- in...
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1945
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In this western the wild and wooley Range Busters are again out for justice. This time they are after a shady businessman...
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1943
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A romantic triangle between two best friends and a beautiful woman provides the basis of this romantic comedy. The girl in...
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1943
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This diverting cinematic time capsule pits the hard-ridin' Range Busters against a Nazi spy ring. The Busters are played on...
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1943
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The Range Busters bust the range once more in Monogram's Land of Hunted Men. This time around, the star trio consists of...
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1943
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Crash
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1943
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In this western the three Range Busters go undercover, take on a gang of ruthless outlaws, and bring them to justice. ~...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Thunder River Feud is the latest adventure of "The Range Busters," aka Ray "Crash" Corrigan, John "Dusty" King and Max...
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1942
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In this western, the courageous Range Busters, round up the rabble-rousing rustlers who've been rendering Rock River really...
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1942
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1942
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The Range Busters returned to bust a few more ranges in Tonto Basin Outlaws. As ever, the three protagonists are played by...
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Crash
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1941
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Wrangler's Roost is another of Monogram's "Range Busters" epics, said Busters portrayed herein by Ray "Crash" Corrigan, John...
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1941
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Like the first entry in the "Range Busters" series, the 1941-42 season opener Saddle Mountain Roundup was as much a whodunit...
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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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1941
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Crash
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1941
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The Range Busters are at it again in Monogram's Underground Rustlers. Set in California gold country during the financial...
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1941
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Trail of the Silver Spurs was Monogram's first "Range Riders" entry for 1941. As in previous episodes, the three heroes are...
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Crash
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1941
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Apparently hoping to break out of the series' formula rut, the producers of the "Range Riders" western Tumbledown Ranch in...
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Crash
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1941
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In emulation of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series, Monogram launched its own three-star sagebrush property, "The...
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1940
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1940
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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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Crash
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1940
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Rhino Video put out this compilation tape of trailers and film clips from the golden age of serials (the 1930s and 1940s),...
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1940
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1940
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No sooner had the second of Monogram's "Range Riders" westerns hit the screens than the third entry, West of Pinto Basin, was...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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This "Three Mesquiteers" western is based upon the exploits of one James Addison Reavis, a clever 19th century con artist who...
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1939
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The Three Mesqueteers attempt to prevent wholesale slaughter in this fine Republic Western starring John Wayne,...
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1939
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1939
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Forever keeping apace of current headlines, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series came up with the 1939 entry Wyoming Outlaw....
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Tucson Smith
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1939
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Forever switching its time-frame from past to present, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series returned to a contemporary...
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Tucson Smith
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1939
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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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Tucson Smith
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Tucson Smith
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1938
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1938
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Riders of Black Hills is the second of 13 consecutive "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by George Sherman. The...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Tucson Smith
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1938
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In this episode of the western series, the Mesquitters try to stop a ring of silk thieves while dealing with a shady...
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1938
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In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to...
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1938
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This program B western features our three heroes attempting to straighten things out after they accidentally cause the death...
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1938
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With the departure of John Wayne to more prestigious films, Robert Livingston returned to the role of Stony Brooke in...
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1938
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1938
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The villains in the "Three Mesquiteers" entry Red River Range are bunch of progressive cattle thieves. This being 1939, the...
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1938
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1938
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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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Tucson Smith
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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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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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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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Tucson Smith
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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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Tucson Smith
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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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Tucson Smith
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1937
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Tucson Smith
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1937
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A travelling circus provides the background for this "Three Mesquiteers" western. One of the circus owners is a...
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Tucson Smith
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1937
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The Three Mesquiteers are back for more action in this well-photographed Republic western. This time, heroes Stoney Brooke...
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Tucson Smith
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1937
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1937
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Clark Stuart
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1937
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This service comedy from the Republic Studio mills was perhaps the most aggressively titled of the "Marine Corps" film cycle...
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1937
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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1936
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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1936
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The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit...
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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1936
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In their first serial effort, newcomers Republic Pictures went with the tried and true: beloved animal trainer Clyde Beatty,...
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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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Tucson Smith
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1936
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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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1935
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids...
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1935
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1935
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