In this made-for-TV "roman a clef", Joe Don Baker stars as Tommy Vanda, a Hoffa-esque labor leader. Told in flashback, the...
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1980
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This gorgeously shot western, filmed in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Shoshone National Forest, stars Charlton...
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Iron Belly
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1980
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1979
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This program is part of a series that chronicles the stories of some of the great heroes of the Old Testament of the Bible....
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1979
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Though not actually a film addressing the evil lure of cream-filled chocolate cakes, this amusingly cheesy made-for-TV opus...
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1978
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Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) decides to open up a roadside restaurant with a chance acquaintance named Vinnie Whithead (Ken Lynch)....
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1978
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This video provides an excellent lesson about who can be trusted in life and which human values are the most important ones....
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1978
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Victor Jory guest stars as a wizened old man who claims to be a Navajo Indian. He also claims that Mel's Diner has been...
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1977
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Victor Jory assumes the title role in The Man Who Talks to Whales. Jory plays a Hemingwayesque codger who goes on a search...
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1976
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In this actioner, a rebel leader hijacks a boat and holds the passengers hostage in the hopes of beginning a coup. ~ Sandra...
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1976
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The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of...
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Indian Chief
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1973
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Frasier the Sensuous Lion would seem to have been conceived as a racy "answer" to Disney's sugary-sweet animal comedies. The...
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Frasier
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1973
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A priceless religious relic is transported from Mexico to LA under armed guard. As an added precaution, the case which...
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1972
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This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as...
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1971
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Flap is marginally significant as the only Western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as...
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Wounded Bear Mr. Smith
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1970
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Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to...
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1969
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In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the...
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1968
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Once again, Ironside (Raymond Burr) comes to the aid of an old friend, in this case an outwardly solid citizen who faces...
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1967
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Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles...
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Charles Ludlow
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1966
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This western is the movie-length pilot for the long-running television series Bonanza. The story follows the Cartwright clan...
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1966
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Agarn (Larry Storch) insists that he has seen a strange Indian wandering around Fort Courage in the dead of night. Since no...
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1966
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City dweller Keith Hollands (Arthur Kennedy) rents a dilapidated beach house, much to the dismay of his wife, Elsa...
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Flynn
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1964
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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Victor Jory stars as veteran police officer Paul Reardon, who vows to avenge the murder of his rookie-cop son, Philip...
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Paul Reardon
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1963
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In his second Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is disturbingly convincing as Victor Rate, a brilliant psychopath in...
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1962
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Capt. Keller
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1962
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Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years...
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Jabe Torrance
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1960
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In this western, a good man becomes an outlaw after his stagecoach mail business falls to the faster railroad mail. To save...
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1957
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The TV drama anthology Kraft Television Theatre celebrated its tenth year on the air with an original drama written by...
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Frankie Serrano
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1957
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This western is set during the Civil War and chronicles the efforts of a recently paroled Confederate soldier to keep the...
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1957
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The secret to immortality is thus: to rejuvenate tired bones and muscles and retain that youthful feeling forever, simply...
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Dr. Murdock
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1957
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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Leonard Wilson
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1956
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"Professor"
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1956
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Blackjack Ketchum, the real-life gunslinger who'd previously been a peripheral character in several westerns, is herein...
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Jared Tetlow
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1956
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Golden Age of Television: Telephone Time contains four episodes of the fifties television show Telephone Time, a series that...
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1956
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Using the dry historical tome Gods, Graves and Scholars as its source, MGM came up with the rip-roaring adventure film Valley...
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Toureg Chef
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1954
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Filmed on location in India, The Hindu is an outgrowth of the "Gunga Ram" episodes originally seen on TV's Smilin' Ed's Gang...
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1953
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The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. During the siege at...
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Jess Wade
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1953
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Cat Women of the Moon tells the tale of a group of American space travellers who confront a hostile tribe of females on the...
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Kip Reissner, co-pilot
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1953
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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1952
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In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone...
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Frank Girard
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1952
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1951
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Lord Douglas
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1951
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Ben Cross
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1951
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Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana....
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Frank Walsh
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1950
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Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into...
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Father Gomez
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1950
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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Dave Oldham
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1949
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Brook Matthews
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1949
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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Dirk Rourke
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1949
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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1948
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Garcia
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1948
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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Marshal Mordore
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1948
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George Pal's acclaimed and very popular Tubby the Tuba was the last of his puppetoon shorts. Based upon a book by Paul Tripp...
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1947
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Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde)...
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1947
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Mark Jackson
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1943
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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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Dan Slack
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1943
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Tom Jordan
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1943
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The King Brothers, entrepreneur siblings who parlayed an allegedly ill-gotten fortune into a long movie career, produced...
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Chuck Williams
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1943
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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Oscar Treat
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1943
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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Champ Clanton
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1943
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The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy...
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Jebb Hardin
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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Jeff Barat
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1943
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This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is...
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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Buckskin Bill
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1942
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In this comedy, a mob of gangsters find themselves in charge of a nursery. The crime boss finds he likes the idea and...
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Deak Foster
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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Steve Fraser
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1941
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Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star...
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1941
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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William Merrick
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1941
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Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave...
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Dapper Dan Streever
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1941
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Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence....
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Alfredo Marina
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1941
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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Henry Logan
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1941
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A fugitive works to clear his name through the use of a dead mountie's identity. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her...
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Clay Beaudine
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1940
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Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in...
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Gene Stewart
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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1940
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Based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character, The Shadow is a 15-episode serial in which scientist Lamont...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940....
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Norman Talbot
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1940
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1940
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No relation to the 1929 Fox talkie of the same name, Republic's The Girl From Havana offers blonde-bombshell Claire Carleton...
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Tex Moore
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1940
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In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to...
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1940
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Coy Barrett
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1940
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Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling into the 1940s with Knights of the Range. Taking a break from the studio's...
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Malcolm Lascalles
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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W.J. Grayce
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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Thomas McNair
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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Doc
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian...
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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William B. Travis
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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Patton
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1939
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As Australian river rights are battled for, the love of a girl is also at stake. ~ Rovi...
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1939
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1938
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In this Australian western, a rancher's daughter goes out on a long-distance lark unaware that her father is facing...
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Dick Drake
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1937
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After making his first appearance as the title character in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Lodge was rushed to...
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Gregoroff
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1937
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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1937
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The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the...
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Baron Lyadeff
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1937
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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Palfi
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1936
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Hell-Ship Morgan (George Bancroft) is the brawny skipper of a small fishing schooner. Supplying fish for a San Francisco...
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Jim
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1936
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Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of...
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Claude Roberts
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1936
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Oberon
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1935
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Jimy Hart
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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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Dario
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1935
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The construction site of a big tunnel provides the backdrop for this drama. When the project is delayed, the chief engineer...
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John O'Hara
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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Matthew Putnam
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1935
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After her success in Lady for a Day, elderly character actress May Robson was starred in a number of features. She's...
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Jim Devlin
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1935
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Terry Condon
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1935
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What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best...
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Howard Sutter
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1934
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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Jim Crowl
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1934
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In this drama, a nice young woman is saving all her money so she can leave her South Seas island home, move to San Francisco...
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Beauregard
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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Duke D'Aiguillon
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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Nick Gardella
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1934
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The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No...
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Doreen
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1933
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Sally Eilers plays Sandra, a secretary who falls for her boss in this passable marital drama from Fox. The attraction is...
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1933
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Randall Williams
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1933
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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John Bradley, Radio Network President
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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Lt. Andre Morand
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful...
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Baron Portola
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1933
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The 1933 Fox production Smoky was the first of three film adaptations of the classic Will James novel. James himself served...
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Clint
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1933
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La Tour
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1933
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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In this children's comedy, a young woman is left in charge of two little hellions when her sister dies. She finally finds...
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1932
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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1930
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