Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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Dissatisfied with his postwar Republic westerns (not to mention his comparatively low salary), Gene Autry switched his base...
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1947
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1942
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The best thing about the Jack Randall Western Pioneer Days is its short-and-sweet running time, a brisk 50 minutes. Randall...
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1940
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The fifth of eight Metropolitan Bob Steele B-Westerns, The Pal From Texas featured the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to...
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1939
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In his sixth and final Western release of 1939, diminutive Bob Steele played a cowboy, who, searching for his father's...
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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1939
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In this western, a lawman tries to help prove that his friend did not commit murder. He rides in and saves his pal from a...
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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1937
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Real-life flying ace Frank Hawks stars in the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Mysterious Pilot. Running the gamut of emotions...
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1937
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Stuffed dummies on horseback manage to fool a gang of munitions smugglers in this farfetched low-budget Western from the...
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1936
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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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Caryl is played by Lois Wilde, but despite her title-character status Ms. Wilde is third-billed behind a pair of "juniors."...
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Enos Calvin
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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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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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Proof positive that Reliable Pictures' Skull and Crown was filmed several years before its 1938 New York premiere is the...
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1935
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Tarzan, "The Police Dog," stars in this ultra low-budget thriller from independent producer Bert Sternbach. The human leads,...
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1935
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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1935
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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This better-than-average Buck Jones western stars Jones as Buck Saunders, shunned by his community because it is believed...
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1935
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It is Richard Talmadge times two in this low-budget action adventure about a young man, Dick Rainey, who switches places with...
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1935
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In this western, a family is threatened by poison pen letters. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1935
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Buck Jones' fourth Universal western, The Crimson Trail turned out to be one of his best-ever vehicles. The plot has...
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1935
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In his penultimate Western for poverty row company Reliable Pictures, Jack Perrin starred as Texas Jack Carroll, a newcomer...
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1935
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Not to be confused with the prominent British film Never Too Late to Mend, which was released in the U.S. in 1937 as Never...
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1935
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In the fourth of 18 inexpensive Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Reliable Pictures and filmed on location in Newhall,...
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1935
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Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by...
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1935
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A pretty Mexican dancer, Tina Menard, is actually the lead character in this low-budget Western ostensibly starring...
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1934
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In this 3-reel comedy Western, Bud (Wally Wales) and his cowpoke sidekick Ben (Ben Corbett) decide to become outlaws. The...
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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Ken Maynard goes undercover to prove that his father (Horace B. Carpenter), a bank president, did not commit suicide but was...
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1933
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Filmed at picturesque Lake Tahoe, NV, this ultra-low-budget dog melodrama starred one of Rin-Tin-Tin's better successors,...
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Boone Jackson
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1933
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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Rivalry between two towns for the honor of becoming county seat turns violent in this interesting Ken Maynard Western from...
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1933
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In this western, the locals are being plagued by "Black Death" an evil outlaw who shoots victims with chemical bullets that...
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1933
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In the last of four low-budget Westerns for the ill-named Big 4 Film Corp., Bob Custer plays Bud Bryson, a young cowboy...
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Bill Morse
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1932
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Ken Maynard's magnificent horse Tarzan took center-stage in this, perhaps the star's most flamboyant entry in the otherwise...
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1932
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A Texas Ranger (Rex Lease) searches for the killer of his sister in this cheap and often incomprehensible Western produced by...
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1932
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Based on a story in Golden West magazine by Frederick Ryter, this rather pedestrian Monogram Western starred handsome...
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1932
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Brawny western hero Jack Perrin certainly deserved better vehicles than such dreck as The Kid From Arizona. Perrin plays a...
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1931
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From low-budget (and rather ill-named) Big 4 Film Corp. comes Headin' for Trouble, starring former silent cowboy Bob Custer...
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Butch Morgan
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy finds himself entangled in a saloon incident. He then saves a woman from outlaws, who later turn...
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1931
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In this western, an enraged cowboy seeks to avenge the murder of his father. He eventually confronts the guilty outlaw gang...
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1931
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Penny-pinching producer John R. Freuler's thoroughly misnamed Big Four Corp. released this early sound western about a ranch...
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1930
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From Big 4 Film Corp., Breed of the West stars former silent cowboy Wally Wales, in his second talkie, as Wally Weldon, a...
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Longrope Wheeler
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1930
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1930
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Silent-screen hero Jack Perrin and his handsome mount Starlight headlined this low-budget oater from shoestring company Big 4...
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1930
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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1930
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In this musical western, a cowpoke goes searching for his brother's killer. The brother had been a Texas Ranger. He finds...
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1930
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Its title and 1929 vintage notwithstanding, Dream Melody was a silent picture. John Roche plays Richard Gordon, an aspiring...
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George Monroe
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1929
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Cowboy Arthur Weston (Dick Hatton) sulkily observes his girlfriend Mary Osbourn (Elsa Benham) doing the Charleston with...
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1927
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Miles and miles of stock "tenement fire" footage are expended in this inexpensive actioner. Alice Lake stars as a wealthy...
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1927
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1926
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The poverty row team of Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber starred in this obscure silent Western based on General Charles King's A...
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Eagle Wing
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1925
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One of the few female western stars of the 1920s, Josie Sedgwick, played a girl searching for her outlaw father's killer in...
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1925
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Bobby Norton
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1924
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Two thieves fight over a packet of stolen money. One (Herschall Mayall) hides the money near a haunted house before being...
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1923
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Daniel Shyer
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1922
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J.P. McGowan certainly knew how to make his adventure films exciting on a shoestring budget. Even though this picture was...
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1922
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Harry
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1921
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Although Becky Butler (Mary MacLaren) comes from a distinguished Virginian family, the clan has fallen on hard times, and she...
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1920
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Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold. Her...
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1919
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Inspired by the recent Russian Revolution, At the Mercy of Men casts Alice Brady as Vera Souroff, a Petrograd music teacher....
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1918
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The Whirlpool was based on the novel of the same name by Victoria Morton. Alice Brady stars as Belle Cavello, the mercenary...
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1918
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Goldwyn Studios' favorite leading lady Madge Kennedy plays the title role in Fair Pretender. Kennedy stars as a young woman...
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1918
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Viola Dana, Metro Studios' favorite leading lady, stars in A Girl Without a Soul. Dana essays a dual role as twin sisters who...
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1917
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For years, it was a "given" that no director of merit ever emerged from the old Edison studios. This assertion was disproved...
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1917
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1917
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Of the many films inspired by the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, Edison's Children of Eve was inarguably...
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1915
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1913
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