Steve Forrest, in his last starring role before moving permanently to series television with S.W.A.T., plays James Devlin, a...
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1974
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Once more, Lorne Greene essays the dual role of Ben Cartwright and Ben's lookalike, confidence trickster Bradley Meredith....
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1972
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Fugitive Confederate officer Cody Ransom (Jon Cypher) is finally willing to surrender to the Union forces-but only if the...
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1972
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Lorne Greene plays a dual role, as Ponderosa patriarch Ben Cartwright and Ben's con-man lookalike Bradley Meredith. The fun...
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1971
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To silence the taunts of his young friends, Jamie tries to prove that he's a "real Cartwright" by showing up at school with...
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1971
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In her fourth Bonanza appearance, Mariette Hartley is cast as Lola, a temperamental touring actress. When Lola is forced to...
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1971
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Neville Brand guest-stars as Pepper Shannon, a stage robber whose career has been blown up to "heroic" proportions by the...
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1970
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When Bonanza debuted in 1959, its first episode was "A Rose for Lotta", guest-starring Yvonne DeCarlo as real-life musical...
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1970
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Ben and his fellow cattlemen find themselves at the mercy of Chicago meat packer Emmett J. Whitney (Walter Barnes). Having...
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1970
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Bonanza's twelfth season commenced on September 13, 1970 with the episode titled "The Night Virginia City Died." Several...
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Sheriff Coffee
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1970
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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1970
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Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after...
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1970
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Making her second Bonanza appearance, Mercedes McCambridge is cast as wealthy widow Matilda Curtis, who helps Ben Cartwright...
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1970
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When Will Griner (Walter Barnes) is acquitted of murder, the angry townsfolk, convinced that the trial was rigged in Will's...
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1969
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While Sheriff Coffee testifies at a trial in San Francisco, Hoss Cartwright serves as temporary sheriff of Virginia City....
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1969
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Passing themselves off as wealthy business owners, brother-and-sister swindlers Tobias and April Horn (Robert Hogan, Marj...
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1969
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During a murder trial, Ben Cartwright is trapped in the basement of the courthouse by a mine cave-in. Also entombed with Ben...
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Sheriff Coffee
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1969
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The mellifluous Richard Haydn is cast as Malcolm the Magificent, a seedy travelling magician. To fool the yokels, Malcolm...
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1969
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Joan Van Ark made an early TV starring appearance in this January 5, 1969 episode of Bonanza. The actress is cast as Laurie...
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1969
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This episode of Bonanza is a showcase for Victor Sen Yung as Hop Sing, the Cartwrights' loyal Chinese manservant. When Hop...
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1968
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Beaudry (John Vernon), an old army buddy of Ben Cartwright, is just a man who wants to have fun. Unfortunately, his idea of...
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1968
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Ben and Hoss Cartwright, together with ranchhand Candy, join a posse to capture Cully Maco (Bruce Dern), an ex-convict wanted...
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1968
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On July 28, 1968, the producers of Bonanza surprised the series' fans by interrupting their summer-rerun schedule with the...
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1968
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In the town of Smithville, Joe Cartwright's life is saved by Tracy Blaine (Robert Drivas), who then manages to sweet-talk his...
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1968
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Joe Cartwright is kidnaped by a band of impoverished Mexicans, who hope to save their rundown village by collecting a $25,000...
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Sheriff Coffee
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1967
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Bonanza's final eighth-season offering, "The Greedy Ones" first aired on May 14, 1967. Rumors are flying that old prospector...
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1967
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The rest of the Ponderosa men are astonished when Hoss Cartwright shows up reeking of cologne and dressed to the nines. It is...
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1967
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Thoroughly immersed in the mystery novel {^Inspector Foot of Scotland Yard}, Joe Cartwright begins to fancy himself an ace...
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1967
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Henry Darrow guest-stars as Amigo, a role originally written for Sammy Davis Jr.). Persecuted all his life merely because of...
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1967
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Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles...
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1966
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When two strangers, Sonny (Dick Peabody) and Jesse (Walter Burke), help Ben Cartwright get his wagon out of the mud, Ben...
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1966
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The title characters in this episode of Bonanza are the Lowell sisters: Ara (Vera Miles, Gabrielle (Lyn Edgington, Lorraine...
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1966
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Bonanza closed out its seventh season on May 15, 1966 with the comic episode "A Dollar's Worth of Trouble." Gypsy palm reader...
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1966
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Hoss Cartwright saves Old Charlie (John McIntire, the town's premiere spinner of tall and outlandish tales, from a...
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1966
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The wife of vicious outlaw Jess Miller (Michael Witney), long-suffering Allie (Janet De Gore takes refuge at the Ponderosa,...
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1966
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Thanks to Jeannie's magic, Tony (Larry Hagman) temporarily becomes a champion-level golfer. This appeals to General Peterson...
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1966
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The focus in this classic Green Acres episode is on that porcine superstar, Arnold the Pig. The complications begin piling up...
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1966
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Bruce Yarnell pays a return visit to Bonanza as the Cartwright's cousin Muley Jones. Still the proud possessor of an...
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1965
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Season Six of Bonanza was brought to a close on May 23, 1965, with another of the series' many "redeption" yarns. In...
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1965
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Singer Hoyt Axton made his dramatic debut in this episode of Bonanza, which first aired April 4, 1965. Axton is cast as...
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1965
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Virginia City is held in a grip of terror by the vicious family of condemned killer Harry Lassiter (Jack Chaplain....
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1965
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Gilbert Roland guest-stars as poor but proud horse rangher Jim Acton. Hoping to get back on his financial feet, Acton is...
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1965
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Virginia City is visited by one Thomas Crippen (Ashley Cowan), an Englishman who has travelled all over the world in search...
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1965
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A group of flamboyant Italian acrobats pay a visit to the Ponderosa. Despite his long friendship with Guido Borelli (Cesar...
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1965
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Bonanza entered its seventh season, minus Pernell Roberts but still as popular as ever, with the September 12, 1965 episode...
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1965
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Poor Ben Cartwright is unable to get any peace and quiet on the Ponderosa, thanks to his uncommonly noisy offspring and their...
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1965
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When her husband Booth (Steve Cochran) is murdered, Hallie Shannon (Joan Freeman) is convinced that her former sweetheart Joe...
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1965
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In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want...
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1964
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In anticipation of a raid by the deadly Wagner outlaw gang, the townsfolk of Virginia City want to replace their ageing...
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Sheriff Coffee
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1964
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Accused of murder, Hoss Cartwright puts his life in the hands of celebrated lawyer Whitney Parker (James Gregory)....
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1964
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The focus is on new series regular Will Cartwright (Guy Williams) in the Peter Packer-scripted Bonanza episode "The Roper."...
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1964
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Publicly humiliated by town tough Al Mooney (Ron Foster), young Johnny Chapman (Guy Stockwell) asks his friend Joe Cartwright...
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1964
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"Old Sheba" is a scraggly circus elephant, which the Cartwrights receive as payment for Hoss' one-night stand as a big-top...
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1964
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A widower for many years, Ben Cartwright finally decides to take another bride, the lovely Katherine Saunders (Teresa...
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1964
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Charles Bronson guest-stars as Harry Star, a halfbreed who is regularly subjected to the bigotry of the townsfolk. Feeling...
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1964
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The title character in this Bonanza episode is a middle-aged Frenchman (John Dehner) who claims to be legendary...
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1964
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Suffering from a advanced case of "spring fever," Hoss Cartwright is nonetheless assigned to pick up a prisoner in the town...
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1964
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John Anderson is cast as fiercely proud rainmaker Tulsa Weems, who is averse to charging money for his services, doing so...
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1963
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While sitting in a barber's chair, Carlos Rodriguez (Alex Montoya) is killed by impatient customer Duke Miller (Perry Lopez....
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1963
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John Flickenger (Benny Baker) takes no chances in planning the robbery of the trucking company where his sister Sylvia...
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1963
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Robert Taylor closed out his MGM contract with the 1963 western Cattle King. Taylor plays a Wyoming rancher at odds with...
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1963
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While tracking down a gang of poachers, Ben Cartwright is shot and left for dead. Convinced that Ben is dead, his...
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1963
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In this classic-and hilarious-Bonanza episode, Hoss Cartwright returns to the Ponderosa with a strongbox of gold, which he...
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1963
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In his last Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Mr. Smith, a slightly demonic fellow who offers his services...
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Mr. Franklin
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1963
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Taking on the alias of Jim Fowler, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) finds work as a delivery man in a farming...
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1963
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Future Lost in Space bad guy Jonathan Harris stars in this Bonanza episode as celebrated British novelist Charles Dickens....
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1963
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Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In...
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1962
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The hooded man who robbed and killed the manager of the Goat Springs bank line turns out to be Adam Cartwright's longtime...
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1962
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Eleven of the twelve jurors in the murder trial of Jamie Wrenn (Jack Betts) have voted for a guilty verdict. The sole holdout...
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1962
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Mickey Shaughnessy guest stars as Mr. Muldoon, a self-proclaimed (and somewhat oversized) Irish leprechaun. Hoping to...
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1962
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Ben Cartwright is an eyewitness when ex-convict Jack Groat (Charles Maxwell shoots down the son of Ben's old friend Lem...
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1962
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Abducted by the Shoshones at the age of six, teenager Billy Horn (Carl Reindel is brought back to the White Man's world by...
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1962
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Hoss Cartwright agrees to meet and provide transportation for Lotty (Judi Meredith), the mail-order bride of his temporarily...
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1962
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While sharing lunch with Adam and Joe Cartwright, Sheriff Coffee notices a holdup gang in the Virginia City express office....
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1962
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Season Four of Bonanza began on September 23, 1962 with what was intended to be a landmark episode. In "The First Born",...
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1962
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Despite irrefutable evidence which places Jim Applegate (Charles Aidman) at the scene of a lynching, Hoss Cartwright doesn't...
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1961
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Bonanza marked the beginning of its third season by moving from Saturdays at 7:30 PM EST to its now-legendary Sunday 9 PM...
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1961
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James Coburn guest-stars as Ross Marquett, an old friend of Adam Cartwright. But Ross' friendship abruptly and unexpectedly...
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1961
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After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third...
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1961
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Rancher
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1961
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Originally telecast March 11, 1961, "The Duke" stars Maxwell Reed as the title character, an egomaniacal and selfish British...
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1961
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First broadcast January 28, 1961, "Bank Run" was one of several second-season Bonanza episodes directed by Robert Altman....
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1961
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Audie Murphy plays a gunslinger put in charge of a posse. His quarry is a four-man bandit gang that has robbed the local...
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1961
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Forced to shoot and kill tresspasser Jeb Hoad, Joe Cartwright is set upon by Jeb's wildcat daughter Willow (Anita Sands)....
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1961
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio...
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1961
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Susan Glaspell's famous short story and one-act play Trifles is the source of this episode, in which Millie Wright...
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1961
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Sue Ling (Lisa Lu), a Chinese slave girl purchased by the infamous General Tsung (Richard Loo), is kidnapped and held for...
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1961
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In the ninth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) accepts a...
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1960
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On September 10, 1960, Bonanza launched its second season with the episode titled "Showdown." On the lam from the law, bank...
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1960
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1960
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Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder, "The Blood Line" opens as Luke Grayson (played by former B-western star Allan...
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1960
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1960
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Fashion expert Jan Manning (Nancy Olson) faces the loss of her department store when the bank turns down her loan request....
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1959
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The first hour-long network Western series telecast in color, Bonanza was also the granddaddy of all "property" Westerns,...
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1959
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In order to play in a high-stakes poker game, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) enter a pair of certified checks,...
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1959
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1959
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Gold Flats is the first of three cities in which Bart Maverick (James Garner) comes face to face with the estimable Stephanie...
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1959
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The first episode of Maverick's second season may be the last appearance of Bret Maverick (James Garner) unless he does some...
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1958
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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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Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best...
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1958
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Having been summoned Westward by a letter from her husband, who claims to have a valuable silver mine, Linda Harris (Erin...
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1957
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Petty thief Steve Morgan (Rip Torn) uses a toy gun to hold up a candy store. Later on, the cops make the necessary...
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1957
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Amidst a sea of late-1950s psychological westerns, The Phantom Stagecoach is almost refreshingly old-fashioned. The plot is...
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1957
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1957
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District attorney Martin Ross (Royal Dano) is running for governor. To help Martin's chances, his mentally disturbed brother...
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1957
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In this western, a cavalryman disobeys his officer's command to massacre Indians at Sand Creek, goes AWOL and heads for his...
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1957
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1957
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This Republic potboiler is no relation to the like-vintage Swedish film of the same title. The wayward girl in question is...
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1957
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1957
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Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up...
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1957
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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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1956
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The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's...
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1956
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Escaped criminal Sam Cobbett (John Cassavetes) breaks into a remote farmhouse and takes a young woman named Mary Schaffer...
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1956
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1956
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Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns....
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1955
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The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries...
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Lex Barker is The Man From Bitter Ridge in this modest Universal western. Barker plays Pinkerton man Jeff Carr, who comes to...
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1955
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Alfred Hitchcock himself directed the first half-hour episode of his long-running suspense anthology. Heading the cast of...
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1955
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1955
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MGM romantic Robert Taylor turns nasty in this low-budget crime melodrama. Taylor plays a cop who subsidizes his income with...
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1954
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1954
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The Command was Warner Bros.' first Technicolor release. Guy Madison, then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of...
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1954
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1954
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Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in...
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1954
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"What are you rebelling against?" asks someone. "What've you got?" responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk...
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1954
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Doc
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1953
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1952
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Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more...
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1952
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The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran...
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Dave Tracy
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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Filmed on location in Canada, The Wild North stars Stewart Granger as renegade trapper Jules Vincent. Forced to kill in...
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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1952
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Cattle Town is a rare low-budget western from the Warner Bros. mills. Dennis Morgan plays Mike McGann, a troubleshooter sent...
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1952
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime,...
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1952
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1951
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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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Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Ned Britt. Setting up shop in the eponymous Texas town,...
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1951
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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1951
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Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates....
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1951
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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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Deputy Lou Gray
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1951
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Filmed on location in Florida's Everglades, Distant Drums stars Gary Cooper as Indian fighter Quincy Wyatt. At the height of...
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Private Mohair
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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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Mr. Dawson
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was....
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1950
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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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1950
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, didn't become a nationwide craze (and merchandising cash cow) until Disney got hold...
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1950
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Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family...
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1950
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1950
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Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving...
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1950
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Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He...
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1950
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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Republic's Harbor of Missing Men stars Richard Denning as a two-fisted smuggler named Brooklyn. Double-crossed by his...
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1950
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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1950
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When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline...
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1950
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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Columbia's heartwarming "Rusty" series came to a close with Rusty's Birthday. As in previous series entries, the doggie hero...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood....
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1949
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Based on a James Oliver Curwood story, Kazan was one of those "little" pictures of the late 1940s which gained a lofty...
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1949
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The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood...
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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1948
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A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to...
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer,...
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1948
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Daredevils in the Clouds was one of Republic's several attempts to transform former cowboy star Robert Livingston into a...
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1948
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This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be...
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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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1948
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This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second...
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1948
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Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
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1947
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Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly...
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1947
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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1947
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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1947
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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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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical...
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1947
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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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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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the...
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1946
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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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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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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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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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard...
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1945
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A disparate group of women join the Women's Army Corps to fight WW II in this upbeat war-time drama. One of the women is a...
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1945
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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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In this exciting adventure, a band of treasure hunters sail to the Mexican coast to find a buried treasure. Along the way,...
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Capt. Andrews
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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1945
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Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes....
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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1945
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In this mystery, the artist behind a detective cartoon strip solves real police cases on the side. The police are rather...
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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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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in...
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1944
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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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The second of Laurel & Hardy's two MGM starring films, Nothing But Trouble casts Stan and Ollie as, respectively, an...
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1944
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1944
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Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been...
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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In this musical, a lovely and ambitious young woman masquerades as the daughter of a formerly beloved stage actress to help...
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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1943
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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1943
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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1942
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Made in 1942 but released early in 1943, Secret Enemies is a Warner Bros. espionage quickie, putting the studio's...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be...
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Walt Burnett
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1941
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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1940
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An average Columbia B-Western, Prairie Schooners once again features William Elliott as a highly fictitious Wild Bill...
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Wolf Tanner
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1940
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1940
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Inspired no doubt by the success of Republic Pictures' singing cowboys, Universal dragged Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders...
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1940
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Fred Harmon's popular comic strip and radio hero Red Ryder came to the screen in this above-average Republic serial directed...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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1938
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