Karl Hackett

Karl Hackett

Born: September 5, 1893
Died: October 24, 1948
in Carthage, Missouri, USA

Movies for Karl Hackett...

Outlaws of the Plains
Title: Outlaws of the Plains
Character: Henry Reed
Released: September 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A gang of swindlers takes advantage of simple-minded Fuzzy Jones.....
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Lawless Breed
Title: Lawless Breed
Character: Sheriff Dan Bradley
Released: August 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies have failed to stop a series of bank robberies. Arriving incognito, they become involved with the gang, and end up being accused of murdering banker Bartlet Mellon. They escape a lynch mob and return with evidence that Mellon has faked his death, hoping to gain the insurance, and is also leading the gang under another name.
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Gunman's Code
Title: Gunman's Code
Character: Rancher Ben Lewis
Released: August 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Wells Fargo agents Jack Douglas (Kirby Grant) and Bosco O'Toole (Fuzzy Knight) are sent after a gang of stage robbers. Danny Burton (Bernard Thomas, brother of Laura Burton (Jane Adams, is implicated before Jack is able to prove that saloon owner Lee Fain (Danny Morton) is the man behind the outlaw gang.
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Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Title: Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Character: Elder Cowhand
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over the ranch, Dawson tries to get rid of him. But Billy and Fuzzy are on hand to help Henry and it's not long before they have to go into action.
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Terrors on Horseback
Title: Terrors on Horseback
Character: Ed Sperling
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up. Billy and Fuzzy quickly learn that the culprit, who not only killed all the passengers but also absconded with $40,000, may be holed up in lawless Pecos City.
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Gentlemen With Guns
Title: Gentlemen With Guns
Character: Judge
Released: March 26, 1946
Type: Movie
While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then advises Matilda to marry Fuzzy so she will get the money when he is hung. But Billy breaks up the wedding and goes after the real killer.
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Lightning Raiders
Title: Lightning Raiders
Character: Jim Murray
Released: January 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A cowboy and his sidekick track mail thieves to a hide-out.
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Prairie Rustlers
Title: Prairie Rustlers
Character: Dan Foster
Released: November 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.
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Rustlers of the Badlands
Title: Rustlers of the Badlands
Character: Sheriff Mallory
Released: August 16, 1945
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid fights to catch the rustlers who killed an Army officer.
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Shadows of Death
Title: Shadows of Death
Character: Dave Hanley
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend Fuzzy who is the town's sheriff, judge, and barber. When the man that sent Billy is murdered and the railroad location map stolen, broken match sticks point to Vic Landreau. While Billy tries to find the missing map, Landreau suspects Billy is on to him and plans to have him killed.
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His Brother's Ghost
Title: His Brother's Ghost
Character: Doc Packard
Released: February 3, 1945
Type: Movie
When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for his friend Billy Carson to organise the sharecroppers to fight. Andy is soon mortally wounded by the gunmen, but before his death schemes for his no good twin brother Fuzzy to be sent for to impersonate him. The gunmen, witnessing Andy's funeral fear that Fuzzy is Andy's avenging ghost.
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Oath of Vengeance
Title: Oath of Vengeance
Character: Dan Harper
Released: December 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Steve Kinney and his henchman, Mort, are trying to stir up trouble between the local ranchers and farmers, behind a wave of rustling and lawlessness. Mort kills Vic, a Kirby cowhand, and lays the blame on Dan Harper, the leader of the farmers faction. Storekeeper Fuzzy Q. Jones, fearful of losing the outstanding charge-accounts he has on his books, drags his reluctant pal, Billy Carson, into the fray, and the two soon prove Kinney and his henchmen to be behind the valley's troubles.
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Code of the Prairie
Title: Code of the Prairie
Released: October 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings along Frog, a photographer and Sunset Carson as muscle. The seedy element in the territory doesn't want law and order and they plot against them and try to stop Sunset Carson being sheriff.
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Brand of the Devil
Title: Brand of the Devil
Character: Jeff Palin
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.
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Sonora Stagecoach
Title: Sonora Stagecoach
Character: Joe Kenton
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The Trail Blazers are bringing in a prisoner to stand trial for bank robbery, when several attempts are made to kill him; convinced of the man's innocence, they arrange a trap for the real thieves.
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Tucson Raiders
Title: Tucson Raiders
Character: Reverend George Allen
Released: May 14, 1944
Type: Movie
In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then foils the crooked Sheriff's attempt to have Red killed escaping jail. When Hannah Rogers gives the Sheriff a note, Red sees her give him a signal. Gabby lifts the note and Red decodes it. The Duchess then gets a confession from Hannah enabling Red to set out after the outlaws.
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The Pinto Bandit
Title: The Pinto Bandit
Character: Sheriff Bisbee
Released: April 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A masked desperado wants to disrupt the mail service between two frontier communities.
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Wells Fargo Days
Title: Wells Fargo Days
Character: Mike
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A notorious arrives in Sunrise and turns in his gun and promises to avoid trouble. But when robbers shoot his good friend, he straps on his gun again and takes off in pursuit.
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Thundering Gun Slingers
Title: Thundering Gun Slingers
Character: Jeff Halliday
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
When Billy Carson's uncle is lynched as a supposed rustler, Billy arrives looking for the murderers. He finds that Steve Kirby holds a forged note on his Uncle's ranch. When Kirby sees that Billy means trouble for him, he has him framed for murder. Then just as he is inciting the mob to lynch him, Billy's new friend Doc Jones is trying to break him out of jail.
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Mojave Firebrand
Title: Mojave Firebrand
Character: Luke Reed
Released: March 19, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, a crusty old sourdough finally finds the silver mine of his dreams only to find his mine threatened by vicious outlaws. Fortunately, a cowboy hero rides up to save him, but not until considerable rootin' tootin' action.
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Arizona Whirlwind
Title: Arizona Whirlwind
Character: Banker Steve Lynch
Released: February 21, 1944
Type: Movie
US marshals Ken, Hoot and Bob stop a gang dressed as Indians from robbing the stage. After getting repairs at the relay station, but before they get to town, another trap is set, but they get away. In town, they search the stage and find nothing. But hidden in the axle grease can are diamonds. Polini wants them cut into smaller diamonds so that he can easily dispose of them. Throughout this Western, the courageous trio faces off against cunning opponents, including the gang's merciless leader (Ian Keith) and an unsuspecting banker (Karl Hackett).
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Westward Bound
Title: Westward Bound
Character: Henry Wagner - Tax Collector
Released: January 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwell is using his outlaw gang to force the ranchers off their land.
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California Joe
Title: California Joe
Character: Telegrapher Potter
Released: December 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
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Death Valley Rangers
Title: Death Valley Rangers
Character: Doc Thorne
Released: December 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele) -- a legendary trio of law enforcers -- to find the gold and figure out who's behind the thefts.
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Boss of Rawhide
Title: Boss of Rawhide
Character: Bill Holden
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.
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The Renegade
Title: The Renegade
Character: John Martin
Released: August 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Town banker John Martin calls on Billy and Fuzzy for help in capturing the men that robbed his bank.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Wallace
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Bordertown Gun Fighters
Title: Bordertown Gun Fighters
Character: Frank Holden
Released: July 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these also and now has the evidence he needs to go after Shelby.
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Wolves of the Range
Title: Wolves of the Range
Character: Bob Corrigan
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.
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The Avenging Rider
Title: The Avenging Rider
Character: Sheriff Allen
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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Western Cyclone
Title: Western Cyclone
Character: Jim Arnold
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid is framed for murder.
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Death Rides the Plains
Title: Death Rides the Plains
Character: Edward Simms
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple of crooks have repeatedly sold the Circle C Ranch to unsuspecting buyers, whom they summarily rob and kill before signing the papers. Enter Fuzzy Jones, whose cousin Luke was one of the unlucky would-be ranchers, and Rocky Cameron who goes undercover as a fellow outlaw to catch the murderers.
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Roberts
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
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Fugitive of the Plains
Title: Fugitive of the Plains
Character: Sam Packard
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy joins an outlaw band led by woman to clear his name of their crimes, which are being blamed on him.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Parson
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Wild Horse Rustlers
Title: Wild Horse Rustlers
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron learns that his twin brother is with a group of German spies. They intend to thwart the government's efforts to round up horses for military service.
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The Kid Rides Again
Title: The Kid Rides Again
Character: Henry
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
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Thundering Trails
Title: Thundering Trails
Character: Henchman Mollison
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Wade Haskell
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Title: Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Character: Sid Clayton
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Cameron steps in to rob the tollgate keepers and return the money to the ranchers, he gets caught.
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Pirates of the Prairie
Title: Pirates of the Prairie
Character: Rufe Jackson
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: The Marshal
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pal Fuzzy escape from the Marshal and find themselves in the ghost town of Laramy. The city was abandoned because of Sykes and his gang, who are in search of a gold mine.
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Northwest Rangers
Title: Northwest Rangers
Character: Gambler
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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Along the Sundown Trail
Title: Along the Sundown Trail
Character: Pop Lawrence
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Three lawmen hunt down thieves who are robbing a tungsten mine.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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Sunset Serenade
Title: Sunset Serenade
Character: Rancher in Antlers Saloon
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
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Prairie Pals
Title: Prairie Pals
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers.
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Tumbleweed Trail
Title: Tumbleweed Trail
Character: Barlow the New Sheriff
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, guns blaze, fists fly, horses run, and justice prevails in the end.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Dr. Thompson
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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Come on Danger
Title: Come on Danger
Character: Ott Ramsey
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
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Texas Justice
Title: Texas Justice
Character: Jack Stewart
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Charlie - Wagon Owner
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Title: Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Character: Hart
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When the gang wound a rancher, the Doc finishes him off with his needle. Running from the law again, Billy and his pals arrive and take up the ranchers fight. But when Billy's pal Jeff is wounded, Fuzzy unknowningly takes him to Doc Hagan.
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Rolling Down the Great Divide
Title: Rolling Down the Great Divide
Character: Pete (Rancher-Agitator)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.
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Jesse James, Jr.
Title: Jesse James, Jr.
Character: Amos Martin
Released: March 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking telegraph service. Every time the locals try to set up communications with the Outside World, they are thwarted by an outlaw gang.
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The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Title: The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Character: Dan Blodgett
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison guard.
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Western Mail
Title: Western Mail
Character: Jim Rivers
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with them, they hope to get the evidence they need.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Clem Jellife
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Texas Man Hunt
Title: Texas Man Hunt
Character: Banker Paul Clay
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
It's WW II and German Reuther has organized local gangs to sabotage the beef supply at the source. Marshal Lee Clark arrives to investigate and joins up with local cowboys Art Davis and Bill Boyd. Lee has a typewritten note from the gang and hopes it can be traced to it's source.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: Richard Allen (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Homesteader
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Death Valley Outlaws
Title: Death Valley Outlaws
Character: Charles W. Gifford
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the fight. To get in with the gang, Johnny poses as an outlaw and then beats them to a gold shipment by robbing the train ahead of them. This gets him invited into the gang. They are all masked and unknown to Johnny, one of them is his brother.
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Man from Montana
Title: Man from Montana
Character: Flash Watson aka Trig
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Bank President
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Title: The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Character: Matt Malone
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
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The Texas Marshal
Title: The Texas Marshal
Character: Ernest Moore
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
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Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Title: Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Character: Bert Davis
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
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The Pioneers
Title: The Pioneers
Character: Carson
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Mirbeau Supporter
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Title: Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Character: Marlow
Released: February 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Day has been captured by Marlow's gang. When Tim Barton and sidekick Monte come looking for him, Tim is also captured. Escaping, Tim has a plan that will have the outlaws fighting among themselves.
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Billy the Kid's Range War
Title: Billy the Kid's Range War
Character: Williams
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
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The Lone Rider Rides On
Title: The Lone Rider Rides On
Character: Judge Graham
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child at the time, he vividly remembers the scar on the ringleader's face -- and Tom will stop at nothing until he brings him to justice … and exacts vengeance.
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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Title: Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Character: Attorney Martin
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Hansen, the Stranger
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Title: Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Character: Storm
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Mr. Haynes
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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The Range Busters
Title: The Range Busters
Character: Sheriff Dod Clayburne
Released: August 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Jack McCall
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Sky Bandits
Title: Sky Bandits
Character: Hawthorne
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
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Frontier Crusader
Title: Frontier Crusader
Character: Barney Bronson
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
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Boss of Bullion City
Title: Boss of Bullion City
Character: Deputy Tug
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
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Murder on the Yukon
Title: Murder on the Yukon
Character: Hawks
Released: February 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunken brother, Bill, comes to the post and Weathers hears him say that Jim is leaving the area for good. Weathers sends Hawks to kill Jim and retrieve the bogus money. RCMP Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly find Jim's body, and Renfrew hurries for Jim's cabin to search it. He is attacked by Weathers' men who have found the money. Renfrew is suspicious when Bill Smithers body is found, supposedly a suicide, with a note he had burned the money. This leads the Mounties to suspect counterfeiting. Kelly follows Manti, an Indian who works for Weathers, to the gang's hideout and is captured. But Renfrew is trailing Kelly.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Gorman - Workman (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Yukon Flight
Title: Yukon Flight
Character: Raymond - Airline Owner
Released: January 2, 1940
Type: Movie
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Hennessy
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Clark
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Councillor Krenko
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Lure of the Wasteland
Title: Lure of the Wasteland
Character: Parker
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A "special" by Monogram standards, Lure of the Wasteland was lensed in a not inexpensive process called Telco-color. Grant Withers takes a break from his duties in the "Mister Wong" series to play Smitty, a US marshal assigned to track down $250,000 in stolen bonds.
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Sundown on the Prairie
Title: Sundown on the Prairie
Character: Jack Hendricks
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Brown
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Six-Gun Trail
Title: Six-Gun Trail
Character: Joe Willis
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Title: Where the Buffalo Roam
Character: Three-Finger Rogel
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Gray -Banker
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Starlight Over Texas
Title: Starlight Over Texas
Character: Kildare
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
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Durango Valley Raiders
Title: Durango Valley Raiders
Character: John McKay
Released: August 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The Shadow and his outlaw gang have control of Durango Valley. Keene Cordner arrives, and with the help of Tanner becomes a second Shadow in his attempt to round up the gang.
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Utah Trail
Title: Utah Trail
Character: Hiram Slaughter
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find the mysterious ghost train that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line.
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Rollin' Plains
Title: Rollin' Plains
Character: Dan Barrow
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.
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Flaming Frontiers
Title: Flaming Frontiers
Character: Jake
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him and get the gold for himself. They frame Tom for murder and then try to get him to sign over his claim. The famous scout Tex Houston is on hand, escaping the attempts on his life, saving Mary from various perils, and trying to bring in the real killer and clear Tom.
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Songs and Saddles
Title: Songs and Saddles
Character: George Morrow
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An old rancher's property sites smack-dab on the site where a new highway is to be built, although he doesn't know it. Someone else does, however, and is determined to force the old man off his property in order to get the ranch for himself. The rancher's foster son returns home to help the old man keep his property and find out who is behind the scheme to take it from him.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Sharpe
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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Songs and Bullets
Title: Songs and Bullets
Character: Harry Skelton
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
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The Feud Maker
Title: The Feud Maker
Character: Rand Lassiter aka Ross Landers
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.
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Frontier Town
Title: Frontier Town
Character: Nat Regan
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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The Rangers' Round-Up
Title: The Rangers' Round-Up
Character: Hank
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans traveling medicine show, but Jim's identity has been exposed and he is in danger.
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Paroled - To Die
Title: Paroled - To Die
Character: Harvey Meline
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.
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Colorado Kid
Title: Colorado Kid
Character: Wolf Hines
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the murder. Bibben beaks him out of jail and later identifies some of the bills spent by Hines to have been part of the money stolen from the Colonel. The Kid now knows he is the one he is after and heads out to get a confession.
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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Title: Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Character: Newt Kemp, Henchman
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
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Texas Trail
Title: Texas Trail
Character: Major McCready
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands into Rough Riders to gather up the horses, and of course bad guys try to sabotage the operation.
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The Firefly
Title: The Firefly
Character: Spaniard (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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Arizona Gunfighter
Title: Arizona Gunfighter
Character: Rancher Durkin
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.
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The Red Rope
Title: The Red Rope
Character: Grant Brade
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight each other.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Henchman
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Border Phantom
Title: Border Phantom
Character: Obed Young
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy Larry O'Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is about to be arrested for the murder of her uncle. With Barbara behind bars, Larry is determined to find the real killer and soon finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving crazed German entomologists and a smuggling ring bringing Chinese "picture girls" across the Mexican border for sale to wealthy Chinese bachelors.
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Song of Revolt
Title: Song of Revolt
Character: Corporal Defending de Lisle (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Sing Cowboy Sing
Title: Sing Cowboy Sing
Character: Kalmus
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When they foil the gang's further attempts, Kalmus gets the Judge to jail the two.
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Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Title: Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Character: Gabe Bowdre
Released: May 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the homesteaders land when they are wiped out. Rancher Dan Stockton, having just married homesteader Gail Dawson, is caught in the middle. He suspects Bowdre is behind the war and it's not long before he gets a chance to prove it.
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Whistling Bullets
Title: Whistling Bullets
Character: Dave Stone
Released: May 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace Beldon is in prison, but with his stolen bonds not recovered, Capt. Saunders has an idea. He sends Graham to prison and has him and Beldon break out. With Ranger Raymond assisting, they make their escape and get to the hangout run by Stone. But the plan starts to go awry when Sam overhears Graham talking with the Captain and reports back to Stone.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: Lefty
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Trail of Vengeance
Title: Trail of Vengeance
Character: Bert Pearson
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted outlaw Dude Ramsey arrives and joins up with Tilden. First he saves the ranchers from Carson's trap and then exposes Pearson as Carson's informant and killer of Steve Warner.
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: American Visitor
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
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Stormy Trails
Title: Stormy Trails
Character: Henchman Max Durante
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Porozzi
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: First Mate
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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The Public Pays
Title: The Public Pays
Character: Milk Company Executive Markovitz (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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Cavalry
Title: Cavalry
Character: Gavin Rance
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Texas Ranger Captain John Hughes
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.
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The Lion's Den
Title: The Lion's Den
Character: Sheriff Ben Thompson
Released: July 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help Merwin by being part of Welsh's gang he hires on as Single-Shot. But soon the real Single-Shot appears.
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Aces and Eights
Title: Aces and Eights
Character: Wild Bill Hickok / Prologue Narrator (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
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Down to the Sea
Title: Down to the Sea
Character: Joe
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Lightnin' Bill Carson
Title: Lightnin' Bill Carson
Character: Stack Stone
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to have doubts as to whether the Kid actually committed the crimes.
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Desert Phantom
Title: Desert Phantom
Character: Tom Jackson
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Billy Donovan arrives looking for his sister's killer. When he hires on at the Halloran ranch where the mysterious Phantom has killed all the hands, it's not long before the Phantom shoots him.
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Roarin' Guns
Title: Roarin' Guns
Character: Evans
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Bill, Ted's Friend (Uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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Bulldog Courage
Title: Bulldog Courage
Character: Williams
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Card Dealer (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.