This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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1932
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Future Leave It to Beaver paterfamilias Hugh Beaumont appears in this episode as Dan Grayson, an ex-convict who has gone...
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1953
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When the order of the Western frontier is threatened by bandits, cowboys are the only measure of justice in the area. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Feeble in the action department, this drama directed by Thor Brooks fizzles before the arsonist gets his due. John...
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1959
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Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to...
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1941
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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1925
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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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1943
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In this western, a gang of evil cattle rustlers wreaks havoc upon a community of ranchers. Three Texas Rangers come to the...
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1944
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Carson City Cyclone stars Don "Red" Barry as a frontier lawyer with the deceptively mild-mannered monicker of Gilbert Phalen....
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1943
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Clancy (Charles Murray) is a pugnacious Irish-American plumber in partnership with parsimonious Scotsman Andy MacIntosh...
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1930
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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1929
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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1935
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Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series hopscotched all over the calendar, with some entries taking place in the...
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1940
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Produced by poverty row organization Stage and Screen, this less-than-faithful serialized version of the historical battle...
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1936
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Handsome action star Reed Howes, the former "Arrow Collar Man," starred in this low-budget silent melodrama as an...
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1925
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Richard Armstrong (Reed Howe) has invented a carburetor that will enable his car to win a road race. Until that happens,...
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1924
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Historically, one of the members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang, Emmet Dalton, did escape with his life after...
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1960
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1933
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1942
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Although rather grandly dedicated to "the law officers of the Old West, who led the fight for law and order in the pioneer...
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1941
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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1936
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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1937
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Produced and directed by George Sherman, Death Valley Outlaws starred James Cagney-lookalike Donald Barry as Johnny Edwards,...
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1941
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1932
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The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's...
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1938
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately...
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1941
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Fashion Madness is The Taming of the Shrew, Roaring '20s style. Claire Windsor plays the spoiled-rotten daughter of a wealthy...
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1928
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Based on a Peter B. Kyne short story, The Final Assignment (which was also the film's alternate title), Fighting Coward...
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1935
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In this complicated western, a group of explorers head to Mexico to hunt for an Indian burial ground. The hero, who has been...
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1939
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Though it probably isn't saying much, Flaming Lead is the best of Ken Maynard's starring vehicles for low-budget Colony...
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1939
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Once one of Hollywood's "top ten" screen attractions, Charles Farrell had slipped somewhat by the end of the 1930s, and...
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1938
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Frontier Crusader was Tim McCoy's first western vehicle for the newly-formed Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). The star...
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1940
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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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Reed Howes, former "Arrow Collar Man" turned action hero, stars in Geared to Go as the son of a taxi-company CEO...
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1924
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Opera singer-turned-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's Lone Rider in Ghost Town. Houston is cast as Tom Cameron, who...
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1941
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In his fourth starring Western, Universal's singing cowboy Bob Baker comes to the aid of Molly Taylor (Fay Shannon), an...
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1938
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One of the busiest directors of westerns at this time, Edward L. Cahn helms this uninspired saddle saga about love and...
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1960
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Gunslingers is another of Monogram's Whip Wilson western series, built around the bullwhip-wielding skills of its star. This...
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1950
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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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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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1932
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A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three...
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1940
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That fine physical specimen Reed Howes stars in the airborne actioner High Flier. An erstwhile inventor, Howes befriends a...
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1926
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In terms of action, Honor of the West ranks among the best of the Bob Baker westerns. In terms of its script, alas, it must...
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1939
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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1952
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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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1941
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Former "Arrow Collar" man Reed Howes once again gets to show off his pecs in the low-budget Kentucky Handicap. Howes plays a...
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1926
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1928
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Law of the Saddle stars Bob Livingston as Rocky Cameron, aka "The Lone Rider". With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John...
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1945
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Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s....
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1955
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Ken Maynard's western series for bottom-barrel Colony Pictures sputtered along with Lightning Strikes West. Former government...
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1940
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Gene Autry goes in search of the man who killed his friend during a blackout in this action-packed western from Columbia....
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1948
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After several years of mediocre westerns, cowboy star Tom Keene finally managed to find a winning formula in his 1941-42...
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1942
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Better known for his good looks than any acting capabilities, former male model Reed Howes starred in this silent action...
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1927
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Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences....
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1952
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development...
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1948
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Tarzan the Police Dog starred in this shoddy mystery produced by Bert Sternbach for Poverty Row's Stage and Screen...
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1935
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Puritan Pictures seldom turned out a film that looked most expensive than it really was. The studio's Million to One appears...
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1937
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Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run...
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1940
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Produced and directed by Harry J. Brown, this minor silent action melodrama starred former male model Reed Howes as a...
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1926
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A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town...
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1944
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Cowboy star Ken Maynard goes the "Lone Ranger" route in Phantom Rancher. Upon inheriting his uncle's ranch, Ken Mitchell...
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1939
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In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of...
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1942
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Metropolitan Pictures' Port of Hate was directed by one of the studio's two chief executives, Harry S. Webb (the other,...
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1939
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"Queen of Camp" might be a more appropriate title for this unintentionally hilarious low-budget serial. It is the story of...
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1935
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Handsome Reed Howes once again played a racecar driver in this silent action melodrama produced and directed, low-budget...
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1927
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Admittedly, gridiron flash Harold "Red" Grange was more at home on the football field than before the cameras, but he was an...
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1926
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That favorite old B-Western menace Charles King is at it again in Raiders of Red Gap, the last of PRC's "Lone Rider" Westerns...
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1943
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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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1942
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Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal...
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1949
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In this western, a pair of ranchers tire of being oppressed by the excessive taxation an avaricious crook in possession of a...
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1943
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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Tex Ritter, Monogram' low-budget answer to Republic's Gene Autry, got himself a new sidekick in rangy Nelson McDowell in the...
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1939
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The Romantic Rogue is handsome Reed Howes, the scion of a disreputable family of peddlers. In the tradition of his forebears,...
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1927
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The titular Royal American is a young shanghaied sailor, played by Reed Howes. Forced to work as a deckhand on a...
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1927
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Another American-International opus which managed to attain top bookings on the strength of an exploitational titles,...
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1957
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1944
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1951
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1943
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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Reed Howes stars as Mike O'Malley, a daring racecar driver, known as "The Scorcher" for his tendency to "burn up" the track....
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1927
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1926
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A routine stagecoach ride becomes a terrifying experience when it is ambushed by desperadoes who hold the passengers hostage...
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1958
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In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant...
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1958
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Whip Wilson stars in the formula Monogram western Silver Raiders. Cast as Arizona ranger Larry, Wilson goes undercover to...
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1950
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A series of pornography-related murders has Lt. Carson (Kenne Duncan) frustrated, not only because the killer remains at...
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1960
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Educational Films, a curiously-named firm specializing in 2-reel comedies, branched out into features with the aviation...
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1928
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South of the Border, a western directered by George Sherman, features two United States government agents (Gene Autry) and...
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1939
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Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a...
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1950
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The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its...
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1945
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western...
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1941
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This independently made comedy-drama used a formula which was very familiar to 1920s filmgoers: take a fast car, a handsome,...
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1925
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In this drama, a cafe singer gets into deep financial trouble. Fortunately, a group of amiable sailors endeavor to save her....
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1937
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Former silent-movie matinee idol Rod LaRocque does what he can with the Poverty Row quickie Taming the Wild. LaRocque is cast...
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1937
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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1949
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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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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1943
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Don "Red" Barry, the "Wyoming Outlaw" and "Tulsa Kid" in other Republic westerns, does not play any one of the title...
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1940
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In this exciting western, a mysterious masked hero helps tired settlers protect their lands from the wicked land-grabbers....
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1939
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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After becoming a promising star, cowboy star Lash LaRue's new series for producer Ron Ormond quickly fell into a groove of...
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1951
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger...
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1943
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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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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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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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1941
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The United States Marine Corps. became the focus of this typical Republic Pictures serial directed by two of the best in the...
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1938
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Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...
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1934
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As in his previous two Westerns, Mexicali Kid and Wild Horse Canyon (both 1938), Jack Randall goes in search of his brother's...
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1939
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Monogram added a bit of music to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown oater, courtesy of former star Smith Ballew, who...
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1946
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All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the...
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1948
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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The Walking Hills stars Randolph Scott as a Westerner named Jim Carey. He is one of several people searching for a lost gold...
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1949
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West of Rainbow's End was one of two Tim McCoy westerns directed by Monogram Pictures workhorse Alan James. Returning to the...
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1938
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Filmed back-to-back with Roll, Wagons, Roll (1939), this minor Tex Ritter Western once again teamed Ritter with the rangy,...
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1940
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Independent producer Jack Irwin went to town with this early sound western, which came complete with two (badly dubbed) songs...
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1931
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In a rather desperate attempt to duplicate the success of Republic Pictures' Three Mesqueteers B-Western series, Monogram...
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1943
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Thunder the Dog, one of the worthier rivals of canine star Rin Tin Tin, heads the cast of Wings of the Storm. Curiously, the...
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Allen Gregory
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1926
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Neither the best nor worst of Hoot Gibson's westerns for producer Walter Futter, Feud of the West lies somewhere in between....
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Bart Hunter
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1935
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An average entry in the otherwise above-average Monogram/"Lone Star" Western series starring John Wayne, this film is...
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Ben
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1935
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Butch
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1928
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The title character is played by Dorothy Revier in this lower-case melodrama. She plays a gossip columnist whose brother, a...
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Dan O'Hara
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1931
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Danny Eagan (Reed Howes) is on trial for his life, charged with the murder of a prominent gangster leader. Danny refuses to...
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Danny Eagan
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1928
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It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a...
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Dave Burton
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1932
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Dave Leonard
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1924
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Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot...
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Davis
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1939
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With Phantom Stage, Universal called it quits on singing cowboy Bob Baker's western series. The plot involves a series of...
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Denver
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1939
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In this comedy, a meddlesome and grouchy publisher pushes his son and his wife a little too hard to make a few grandchildren...
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Jack Harding
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1929
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Jack Wade (Reed Howes) is the son of a wealthy father who runs a successful ship-building company. He uses his athletic...
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Jack Wade
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1924
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The first of six Jack Randall Westerns directed by Monogram studio hack Raymond K. Johnson, The Cheyenne Kid presented the...
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Jeff Baker
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1940
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man (or so his publicity claimed), stars in The Bashful Buccaneer. Howes plays a writer...
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Jerry Logan
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1925
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"Rough House Rosie" Reilly (Clara Bow) just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Rosie...
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Joe Hennessey
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1927
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This low-budget action-thriller marked the film debut of "Arrow Collar man" (or, rather, the most famous of several Arrow...
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John Ellsworth
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1923
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Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in...
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John Perry
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1928
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Actually it's the great-grandson of legendary 19th century do-gooder Zorro who rides in this 12-chapter Republic serial....
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Phillip Andrews
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1937
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man, stars in the action-packed Danger Quest. Set amongst the African diamond mines,...
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Rob Rollins
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1926
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Long before the character was appropriated by Buster Crabbe, "Lightning" Bill Carson was played by Tim McCoy in a series of...
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Slade
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1940
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More substantial than most of the potboilers produced in the late '20s by Harry J. Brown, The Snob Buster starred former male...
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Theodore Prendergast
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1925
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Comedy and thrills are doled out in equal measure in the Buck Jones western The Gentle Cyclone. The story is motivated by a...
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Thomas Marshall, Jr.
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1926
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Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting...
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Tugger
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1935
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This racist horror film from director Marshall Neilan was inspired by "Chloe -- Song of the Swamp," a minor hit for...
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Wade
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1934
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Former fashion model Reed Howes stars in this routine drama about a son who inherits a car, a valet, and a dime from his...
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William Ignatius newton
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1925
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Young Thorpe
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1925
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