If Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) had ever bothered to discuss the matter with his brother Bret, he'd have known to steer clear...
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1958
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After a dying outlaw confesses to a crime for which Jedd Ferris (Richard Crane) has been sentenced to jail, Bret (James...
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1957
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Just before achieving TV stardom as The Sheriff of Cochise, John Bromfield headed the cast of Frontier Gambler. Coleen Gray...
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1956
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1956
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In this western, three gringos deposit their loot in a Mexican bank and set up homes in a tiny village where they hope to...
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1956
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In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a...
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1956
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Zachary Scott heads the cast of the heavily plotted western Treasure of Ruby Hills. The son of a notorious outlaw, Haney...
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1955
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In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks...
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1954
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Rory Calhoun stars as veteran gunfighter Brett Wade in Dawn at Socorro. In a lengthy flashback, the audience learns why Wade...
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1954
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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This first episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. Reporters Clark...
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1953
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This pedestrian chapterplay added William Henry -- renamed Bill Henry for the occasion -- to the long list of lesser known...
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1953
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Clark (George Reeves), Lois (Phyllis Coates) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) head to Canada to investigate reports of a werewolf who...
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1953
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El Paso Stampede was the last of Republic Pictures' 38 Allan "Rocky" Lane westerns. Happily, the
series maintained a fairly...
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1953
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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1953
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Ann Sheridan landed the leading role in Benedict Bogeaus Productions/RKO Radio's Appointment in Honduras as part of a legal...
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1953
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When Lou (Lou Costello) accidentally shoots his neighbor Mrs. Crumbcake (Elvia Allman) out of a tree and perforates her...
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1953
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This concluding episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. The digging...
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1953
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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Cowboy hero Wild Bill Elliot (whose trademark was wearing his six-shooters backwards in his holsters) stars in this oater....
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1952
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Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for...
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1952
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The Waco depicted in this film is a wide-open Texas frontier town, in desperate need of a strong authority figure to clean...
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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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As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man...
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1952
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Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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1952
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In this western, a US marshal tries to stop a nefarious gang of thieves from harassing the local sheriff and from stealing...
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1952
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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1952
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This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern...
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1951
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1951
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Saddle Legion stars RKO Radio's resident cowboy hero Tim Holt. As in most of his postwar vehicles, Holt is teamed with...
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1951
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"Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast of Republic's Utah Wagon Train. Allen plays a modern-day...
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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1951
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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1951
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Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia...
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1951
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Tim Holt comes to the aid of a young telegrapher wrongly accused of murder in this average western from RKO. The telegrapher,...
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1951
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Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in...
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1951
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate...
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1950
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Aired originally on September 3, 1950, and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2000, this The Gene Autry Show series...
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1950
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Blonde Dynamite was the 17th of Monogram/Allied Artists' 48 Bowery Boys entries. This time, the boys have transformed Louie's...
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1950
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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1950
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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Sheriff Grasset
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1950
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Allan "Rocky" Lane rides again in Salt Lake Raiders. This time, action takes a back seat to mystery and suspense. Lane...
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1950
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Rhys Williams is afforded the leading role in Columbia's Tyrant of the Sea. The film borrows a few pages from Jack London's...
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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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Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer...
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1950
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Once more, Charles Starrett hits the trail as the masked do-gooder known as The Durango Kid in Streets of Ghost Town. Also...
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Sheriff
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1950
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Under Mexicali Stars spotlights Republic's newest singing cowboy, Rex Allen. Our hero plays a U.S. treasury agent, hot on the...
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1950
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a...
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Sheriff Crocker
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1950
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The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up...
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Simon
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1950
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According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show,...
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1950
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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1949
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Blondie's Big Deal was the 24th entry in Columbia's popular "Blondie" series. Since the actors were getting a bit too...
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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Marking the screen debut of Rex Allen, the last of the Singing Cowboys, The Arizona Cowboy featured a mildly entertaining...
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1949
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"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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1949
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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1949
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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1949
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1949
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By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture....
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1949
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Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir....
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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1949
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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1948
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The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A...
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1948
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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1948
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The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1948
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In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can...
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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In this drama, a wanderer is put on a fight card after promising the promoter that he will take a dive. He soon falls in...
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1948
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Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the...
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Von Scherbe
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1948
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Edgar Buchanan stars as a man who abruptly leaves his wife (Anna Lee) to "find himself". When he returns, he discovers that...
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1948
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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Bank President
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1948
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The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the...
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Sheriff Dodge
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1948
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Yet another Hollywood whitewash of a gang of legendary lawbreakers, this oater starred future Lone Ranger Clayton Moore and...
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1948
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1948
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In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo...
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1948
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A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan...
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Mr. Hamby
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1947
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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1947
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Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) has begun seeing a psychiatrist to treat her overwhelming guilt. It seems that Marise was...
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1947
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A man down on his luck runs afoul of a beautiful but dangerous woman in this superior low-budget film noir. Mike Lambert...
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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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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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Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the...
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1947
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Mr. Jones
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1947
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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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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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946...
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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1946
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...
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1946
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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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In this western comedy, the mis-adventures of a bumbling range rider are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1946
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1946
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MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents --...
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1946
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In this western, a rancher's search for his brother's killer is interrupted by a wicked banker and his gang who are trying...
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1945
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In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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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 action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave,...
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1945
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In this western, Red Ryder, his youthful sidekick, and another pal take on a wicked governor. This was the first in a new...
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1944
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Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not...
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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This "Red Ryder" entry stars Gordon "Wild Bill" Elliot as Ryder. The heroine (Linda Stirling) is having troubles with the...
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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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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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1944
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In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately,...
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1944
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers and the utility company....
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1943
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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1942
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In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
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1942
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Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally...
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Postal Inspector Brennon
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1942
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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Mr. Taylor
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1941
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The cast and crew of Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" Westerns returned once again to Lone Pine's famous Alabama Hills for this...
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1941
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A strong lineup of guest stars enhances the enjoyment of the Columbia B-plus musical Time Out for Rhythm. The somewhat...
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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1941
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity...
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1940
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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1940
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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1940
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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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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly...
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1940
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1940
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant...
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of...
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1939
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In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon...
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1939
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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1939
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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On the verge of superstardom, Rita Hayworth played in scores of minor dramas like Homicide Bureau, an entertaining little...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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Maj. Smith
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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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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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1938
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1938
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In this drama, a former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal...
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1938
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Just before going on a brief one-man strike for better wages, Gene Autry starred in the Republic musical western Prairie...
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1938
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1938
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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1938
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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William Bellounds, Foreman
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1938
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In this desert adventure, a cruel commander viciously rules a regiment of foreign legionnaires. They tire of his brutality...
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1938
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1938
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Stablemates is a typically treacly vehicle for Wallace Beery, who goes through his usual slobbery paces as an eternally...
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1938
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Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who...
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it...
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1938
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When G-Men Step In is Columbia's spin on Paramount's "FBI" B-picture series. On this occasion, the feds are after a gang of...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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1938
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This Roy Rogers starrer is set in motion by a range war between ex-partners Brower (William Farnum) and Jackson (Stanley...
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Jackson
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1938
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1938
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In this tuneful programmer a singer, believing that her husband, a Marine pilot accused of treason, has died in the Pacific,...
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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Tala Birell, one of the more talented of the Garbo wannabes of the 1930s, stars in the Universal quickie She's Dangerous. The...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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1936
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This drama focuses upon a beleaguered surgeon. He is first involved with a social-climbing fiancee who constantly puts him...
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1936
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Adapted by director Karl Brown from a novel by Charles M. Sheldon, In His Steps was the first release from the newly formed...
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1936
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In this western, a polo-playing free-loader convinces a farmer to take him in; the cad then proceeds to take advantage of...
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Tony Baxter
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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1936
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Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis,...
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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1936
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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Escape from Devil's Island delivers exactly was the title promises...almost. Victor Jory and Norman Foster play two desperate...
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Steve
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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MGM loaned Myrna Loy to Paramount to co-star with Cary Grant in the roller coaster-paced romantic drama Wings in the Dark....
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1935
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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1935
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Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the...
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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1935
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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1935
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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