Rocky Mountain was planned as a big budget western, but Warner Bros. pared down both its budget and its length to...
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1950
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Stock footage abound in this otherwise average Rex Allen musical Western from Republic Pictures. When crooked ranch foreman...
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Himself
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1952
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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Not to be confused with a 1942 20th Century-Fox aviation actioner with the same title, Thunderbirds is a Republic Pictures...
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1952
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Rather than the usual cattlemen vs. sheep men conflict, this above-average Rex Allen western contrasts ranchers of all kinds...
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Slim
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1952
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Though he doesn't wield a sword nor wear a plumed hat, singing cowboy Rex Allen qualifies as The Last Musketeer in this...
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Slim
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1952
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Singing cowboy Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast in Border Saddlemates. This time, Rex in on the trail of...
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Slim Pickens
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1952
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Rex Allen, his horse Koko, and his sidekick Slim Pickens play themselves in Old Oklahoma Plains. Set in the 1920s, the film...
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Himself
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1952
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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1953
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"Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen heads the cast of Republic's Old Overland Trail. Rex plays an operative for the Bureau of Indian...
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Himself
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1953
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Postal inspector Rex Allen rides hell bent for leather in order to save an innocent man from hanging in this enjoyable...
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Slim
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1953
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Rex Allen, the last of Republic's singing cowboys, stars in Red River Shore. This time, it's up to Allen to prevent a major...
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Slim
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1953
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Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick Slim (Slim Pickens) try to...
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Slim
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1953
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Himself
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1953
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In this western, the many travails of a wagonmaster on a Westward trek are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1954
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Jet Cosgrave (John Derek) is The Outcast in this big-budget Republic western. Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle...
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1954
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1954
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In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but...
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Sam Beekman
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1955
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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1955
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This probing drama offers an inside look into corruption within the United Auto Workers and is loosely adapted from the true...
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1955
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Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase is a dramatic retelling of the actual Civil War events which inspired the Buster Keaton...
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1956
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Gun Brothers is a rehash of the "Cain and Abel" motif that has been popular amongst screenwriters since time immemorial....
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1956
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1956
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In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison....
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1956
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In this second episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, easterner Andy (Jerome Courtland) and...
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1957
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Originally telecast on the Disneyland anthology, the six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett was the first of several...
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1957
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In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect...
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1957
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In this third episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland, Joe Crane (Jeff...
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1957
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After a fistfight with his friend Gentleman Jack Darby (Richard Long) over the affections of beauteous dancer Elena Grande...
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1958
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In this 4th episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland) and the Mountain...
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1958
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This Disney adventure differed from many films of its era in that it depicted an unusually humanistic view of Native...
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1958
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In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland and his fellow...
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1958
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In the final episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland and his friends...
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1958
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The Sheepman was touted as a comedy by some of MGM's publicity people. It really isn't, but this western does have its...
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1958
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) and another...
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1959
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1959
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This trite, low-budget Western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the...
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1959
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion...
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1960
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In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, 18th century American guerilla leader Francis...
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1960
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A bright green caboose is the focus of this touching drama which tells the story of a retired conductor who owns it. It is a...
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1960
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In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion...
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1960
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In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of...
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1960
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, the Cumberland Gap...
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1961
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In the final episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War patriot Francis Marion...
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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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In the concluding episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, several...
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1961
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Brent Maverick (Robert Colbert) in his last series appearance) witnesses a robbery in a post office--then looks on as Sheriff...
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1961
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This is the second Maverick episode to be based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson (the first, "The Wrecker", was seen...
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1961
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Henpecked husband Leonard Thompson (Martin Balsam) shows up at funeral parlor, where he orders an expensive casket and makes...
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1961
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In this western, an idealistic and naive rookie cavalry officer is assigned to work with a cruel captain. He immediately...
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1961
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Savage Sam is the sequel to the successful Disney film Old Yeller. This time, the boys take off after a band of Apache...
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1963
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Slim Pickens makes his first appearance as the rogueish but lovable mountaineer Jim Leyton. Wounded while busting out of...
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Jim Leyton
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1963
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Pat Buttram (he was Mr. Haney on Green Acres) brings a macabre twist to his standard country-bumpkin characterization in this...
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Clem Carter
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1964
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Slim Pickens makes a return appearance in the role of shifty, slovenly mountaineer Jim Leyton. Incredibly, Jim has become...
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Jim Leyton
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1964
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Having followed the trail of the One-Armed Man to Northern Wisconsin, Kimble (David Janssen) runs afoul of a mean-spirited...
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1964
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Bristle Face is a stray hound with a fondness for hunting turtles. Orphaned Jace Landers (Philip Alford) adopts the...
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1964
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In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb...
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Maj. T.J. "King" Kong
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1964
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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1965
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1965
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This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells...
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Artillery Colonel
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1965
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Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its...
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1965
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Talion is the alternate title for the blood-splattered western An Eye for an Eye. You know that the filmmakers aren't kidding...
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Ike Slant
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1966
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Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy...
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1966
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This typical western tale of beleaguered townsfolk mustering up the courage to fight the villain that controls their town...
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Yarbrough
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1967
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California Joe Milner
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1967
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Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport...
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1967
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Michael Sarrazin plays Curley, a young man gone AWOL from the Army who soon makes the acquaintance of Mordechai...
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1967
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The Legend of Custer is an expanded version of the pilot film for the weekly Custer television series. Wayne Maunder stars as...
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1968
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Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams...
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1968
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The Cartwrights and Candy find themselves stranded in the backwater town of Tinbucket. Having picked up false rumors that the...
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1968
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Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this...
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1968
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In this first half of the two-part sequel to the Season One episode "Barbara Who?" (originally telecast as a single two-hour...
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1969
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Wayne Newton is the hero of the warm-hearted family feature 80 Steps to Jonah. The piping-voiced Newton is accused of car...
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Scott
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1969
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In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside steps up his efforts to...
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1969
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Temporada Salvaje (also title Savage Season) is the tale of three criminals who attempt to steal a huge amount of platinum. ~...
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1970
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Innocent Hoss Cartwright is thrown in jail, suspected of complicity in a bank robbery. The real bandits are a pair of...
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Sheriff
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1970
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After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director...
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Ben
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1970
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Don't confuse this 1970 Italian/Yugoslav Operation Snafu with the 1962 British comedy-drama of the same name. While the...
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1970
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Ernest Borgnine plays alcoholic vagabond Sam Hill in this pilot film for a potential western detective series. Sam Hill is...
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1971
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Ricardo Montalban is well cast as legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta in Desperate Mission. As in most previous filmed...
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1971
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The notion of combining the western and horror genres was nothing new when The Devil and Miss Sarah was first telecast in...
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1971
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Anyone who adopts the initials "J.C." as a nickname probably has a Messianic complex. In Iron Horseman, the hero, the head of...
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1971
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A captain convicted of deserting his cavalry (Bekim Fehmiu) is released to lead a band of deputized renegades. Together, the...
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1971
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1972
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In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a...
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Anse
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1972
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In a raffle, Danny wins "F. Scott Fitzgerald"--not the writer, but a racehorse who suffers from insomnia. The whole family...
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1972
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Dennis Weaver plays a tow-truck driver sent to prison on a trumped-up charges of attempted murder. Out after serving four...
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1972
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The exciting world of rodeo provides the framework for this western saga that centers around a temperamental bronc rider who...
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Songwriter, Clete
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1972
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A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between...
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1973
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Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed...
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Sheriff
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1973
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1973
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In this countrified comedy, a pair of hell-raisin' bootleggers try to get revenge upon the moonshiners who plugged their...
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1974
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In this comedy, a retired Navy cook lives his dreams. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1974
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Former evangelist Marjorie Gortner had a brief flurry of activity as an actor in the early 1970s. Gun and the Pulpit was a...
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1974
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1974
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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by...
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Taggart
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1974
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The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is...
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1975
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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1975
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Slim Pickens makes his first Baretta guest-star appearance in the role of retired mugger Harry Muzursky. When Harry claims...
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1975
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In this violent low-budget outing, an African-American singer is kidnapped and forced to endure all sorts of torments and...
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1975
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1975
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In this action film, trucker Carrol Jo Hummer (Jan-Michael Vincent) borrows money to purchase a truck of his own, only to...
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Duana Haller
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1975
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Joe Camp, the writer and director of Benji, tried his hand with another breed of animal in this comedy. A U.S. Cavalry unit...
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Naman Tucker
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1976
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Designed for the regional family trade, Pony Express Rider is a fond harkback to the Saturday afternoon westerns of old....
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1976
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Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a...
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1976
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In this supernatural western, Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure: a...
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1977
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1977
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An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to...
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Duane Hawkins
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1977
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Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the...
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1978
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1978
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While 2 novice musicians travel to Nashville they are confronted by a redneck sheriff. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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In this adventure set during the Civil War, a traveler and an Irish-Indian named Half Moon O'Brien find a dying man who...
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1978
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Heartbreak Motel enjoyed a brief theatrical life on the drive-in circuit, then settled down into Late Late Show screenings....
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1978
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In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving...
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Jitters Pippin
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1978
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1979
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It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend...
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1979
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The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers...
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1979
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Sgt. Beauregard Wiley
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1979
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An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble...
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1979
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Set in the rugged but beautiful Alaskan wilds, this fact-based outdoor adventure chronicles the struggles of a family to...
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Obie
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1979
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Sam Creedmore
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1980
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After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in...
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Garland Ramsey
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1980
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David Soul stars in the made-for-TV Swan Song as a former Olympic skiing champ. There is a consensus of opinion that Soul...
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1980
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In this holiday western an aging saddletramp discovers the spirit of Christmas when he must spend it with a widow and her...
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1980
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This made-for-TV Amityville Horror knock-off ranks among the more interesting titles from a spate of early-1980s...
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1981
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This heartwarming Christmas tale contains a western twist as it tells the tale of a heavenly cowpoke who rides down to Earth...
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1981
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A curious pure-entertainment offering from the same team responsible for the "Classics Illustrated" TV movies of the 1970s...
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1981
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This groundbreaking, darkly comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways...
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1981
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In this carefree children's adventure, a grandfather and his grandson fulfill the former's life-long dream and embark upon a...
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1982
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This unfunny attempt at sexual comedy looks at the adventures of five different couples spending one night in a cheap motel....
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1982
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In this Western edited together from episodes of the 1960's TV series "The Legend of Custer," Crazy Horse and Custer must...
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1990
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