Roy Barcroft

Roy Barcroft

Born: September 7, 1902
Died: November 28, 1969
in Crab Orchard, Nebraska, USA

Movies for Roy Barcroft...

Monte Walsh
Title: Monte Walsh
Character: Proprietor
Released: October 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
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The Reivers
Title: The Reivers
Character: Ed (The Judge)
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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Gaily, Gaily
Title: Gaily, Gaily
Character: Dr. Gorson
Released: December 16, 1969
Type: Movie
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
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Bandolero!
Title: Bandolero!
Character: Bartender
Released: June 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
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Title: Cimarron Strip
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: TV
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
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The Way West
Title: The Way West
Character: Mr. Masters
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
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Texas Across the River
Title: Texas Across the River
Character: Morton
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
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Destination Inner Space
Title: Destination Inner Space
Character: Skipper
Released: May 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
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Gunpoint
Title: Gunpoint
Character: Dr. Beardsley
Released: April 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Title: Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Character: Sheriff Griffin
Released: April 10, 1966
Type: Movie
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
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D-Day on Mars
Title: D-Day on Mars
Character: The Purple Monster
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.
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Title: Laredo
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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Title: Profiles in Courage
Character: Judge
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: TV
Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.
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Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Dr. Anthony Thompson
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: TV
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Chief of Police
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Mr. Tait
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Bill Goforth
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Six Black Horses
Title: Six Black Horses
Character: Mustanger
Released: April 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.
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Title: Straightaway
Released: October 6, 1961
Type: TV
Straightaway is a 26-week half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired on ABC during the 1961–1962 season – the story of two young men who operate a garage and engage in auto racing. John Ashley and Brian Kelly played race car designers Clipper Hamilton and Scott Ross, respectively. Scott designs the vehicles, and Clipper is the mechanic. Asa Maynor was cast in four episodes as Dixie. Most episodes center on the clients who bring a race car to the Straightaway Garage. The series was originally planned to be named “The Racers”, but the title had to be altered because of sponsor problems. Straightaway ran at 7:30 Eastern on Fridays opposite CBS’s Rawhide with Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming. Straightaway was moved to Wednesdays effective January 10, 1962, for the remainder of its brief run.
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Title: Frontier Circus
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: TV
Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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When the Clock Strikes
Title: When the Clock Strikes
Character: Sheriff Mitchell
Released: June 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
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Ten Who Dared
Title: Ten Who Dared
Character: Jim Baker
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Character: John McLean
Released: October 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Clint Biggers
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: Johnny Ringo
Character: Pat Merlin
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
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Escort West
Title: Escort West
Character: Sgt. Doyle
Released: January 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is a Union soldier. Lassiter falls for Beth, and when Indians attack, they head to a cavalry camp where Lassiter must battle the Indians as well as Beth's fiancé.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Adams
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Sanders
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Casey
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Cliff Stanton
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Lawman
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Title: The Texan
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Frank Hagen
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Title: The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
Released: November 4, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
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Title: Trackdown
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: TV
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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Domino Kid
Title: Domino Kid
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Marshal
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Character: The Cattleman
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Murphy
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Simon
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Last Stagecoach West
Title: Last Stagecoach West
Character: Park Ketchum
Released: July 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
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The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Title: The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Character: J.P. Flemming
Released: May 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.
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Gun Duel In Durango
Title: Gun Duel In Durango
Character: Mr. Blaisdell (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A former outlaw must prove himself innocent after he's accused of bank robbery. Western.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Mike - Ranch Foreman
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Pat Merlin
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Marshal Carl Neuman
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Rady Smith
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Gun Brothers
Title: Gun Brothers
Character: Sheriff Jorgen
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Recently discharged cavalry sergeant Chad Santee (Buster Crabbe) joins his brother, Jubal (Neville Brand), and discovers that Jubal is a wanted outlaw. On the way he meets Rose Fargo and rescues her from the unwanted advances of a gambler, "Blackjack". When Chad and Rose arrive they find that Jubal and his partner, Shawnee, are really rustlers and outlaws. Jubal tries to get Chad to join them but he refuses, and leaves to set up his own homestead with Rose at his side. Later, the repentant Jubal comes to join him. Shawnee, angry at what he considers a double-cross, attacks the brothers with his gang.
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The Last Hunt
Title: The Last Hunt
Character: Maj. Smith
Released: April 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: The Marshal
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
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Title: Spin and Marty
Character: Col. Logan
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: TV
Marty Markham, a rich orphan attends summer camp at a dude ranch where he becomes best friends with Spin Evans.
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Oklahoma!
Title: Oklahoma!
Character: Marshal
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Pop
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Farr
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Roy
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Asa
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Jonas
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Cotter
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Jake
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Luke
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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The Cobweb
Title: The Cobweb
Character: Police Lieutenant Ferguson (Uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
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Man Without a Star
Title: Man Without a Star
Character: Sheriff Olson
Released: March 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Sergeant Bailey
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Sheriff Bodie Hampton
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Rogue Cop
Title: Rogue Cop
Character: Lt. Vince D. Bardeman
Released: September 17, 1954
Type: Movie
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
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Title: Lassie
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Two Guns and a Badge
Title: Two Guns and a Badge
Character: Bill Sterling - Rancher
Released: September 11, 1954
Type: Movie
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
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Man with the Steel Whip
Title: Man with the Steel Whip
Character: Sheriff [Chs. 8, 10-12]
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Saloon owner Barnet wants the Indian reservation land on which he knows there is gold, and organizes a gang, aided by some renegade Indians, to raid and terrorize close-by settlers,hoping to arouse them to drive off the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall, accompanied by school teacher Nancy Cooper, sets out to defeat the plot. In order to win the loyalty of the innocent tribe members, Randall masquerades as a legendary friend of the Indians, El Latigo.
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The Desperado
Title: The Desperado
Character: Martin Novak
Released: June 20, 1954
Type: Movie
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
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Title: Public Defender
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Title: The Man Behind the Badge
Released: October 11, 1953
Type: TV
The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian. In its first season, The Man Behind the Badge aired on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. EST opposite ABC's Jukebox Jury.
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Shadows of Tombstone
Title: Shadows of Tombstone
Character: Mike
Released: September 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. When Marge, who runs the town newspaper tells Rex she is afraid to attack the sheriff in print, Rex decides to run for sheriff. Webb and Mike frame Rex and his partner Slim on a murder charge and they are jailed.
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Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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El Paso Stampede
Title: El Paso Stampede
Character: Henchman Floyd Garrett
Released: September 6, 1953
Type: Movie
The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.
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Bandits of the West
Title: Bandits of the West
Character: Bud Galloway
Released: August 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.
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Down Laredo Way
Title: Down Laredo Way
Character: Cooper
Released: August 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
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Savage Frontier
Title: Savage Frontier
Character: William Oakes
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Mate Orrin
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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Old Overland Trail
Title: Old Overland Trail
Character: John Anchor
Released: February 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Title: Marshal of Cedar Rock
Character: Henry Mason
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
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Ride the Man Down
Title: Ride the Man Down
Character: Russ Schultz
Released: November 25, 1952
Type: Movie
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
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Montana Belle
Title: Montana Belle
Character: Jim Clark
Released: November 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer. Written by Rod Crawford
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South Pacific Trail
Title: South Pacific Trail
Character: Link Felton
Released: October 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor. Meanwhile, the rancher's foreman executes plans for a train robbery.
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The WAC From Walla Walla
Title: The WAC From Walla Walla
Character: Mr. Prentiss
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
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Desperadoes' Outpost
Title: Desperadoes' Outpost
Character: Jim Boylan
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Nugget Clark has been having his stagecoaches wrecked and Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to investigate. The foreman of a nearby mine is stealing part of the mecury output and selling it in Mexico. Nugget's house has a direct pipeline from the mine and they are trying to drive him into bankruptcy to obtain his ranch. Rocky is quickly aware that the Foremen is behind Nugget's holdups but they are also onto Rocky when he accidently drops his badge during a fight.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Herbert Wheelock
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Title: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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Old Oklahoma Plains
Title: Old Oklahoma Plains
Character: Arthur Jensen
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
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Thundering Caravans
Title: Thundering Caravans
Character: Ed Brill
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
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Black Hills Ambush
Title: Black Hills Ambush
Character: Bart
Released: May 20, 1952
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship it out. So he hijacks the next outgoing shipment finding a box labeled tools contains gold bars. Then posing as an outlaw he makes a deal with the gang hoping to round them up. But the boss learns he is a Marshal and he is made a prisoner.
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Border Saddlemates
Title: Border Saddlemates
Character: Steve Baxter
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex Allen ('Rex Allen'), a U. S. government veterinarian, rides into the picturesque town of Pine Rock, near the Canadian border, to take the place of the regular vet who is on vacation. Used to doctoring animals in Texas, Allen finds out that herein the heart of the fox-farming industry, he is to doctor the most finicky and high-priced of fur on four feet. On the farm of Mel Richards (Tom London), Allen learns the habits of the valuable creatures from Richard's niece, Jane (Mary Ellen Kay, and her ten-year-old brother Danny (Jimmy Moss'), and on his own learns that the trusted owner of the trading post, Steve Baxter (Roy Barcroft) heads a gang that is smuggling counterfeit money across the American/Canadian border in the fox cages.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Morris Draper
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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Wild Horse Ambush
Title: Wild Horse Ambush
Character: Harkins
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A man has kidnaped an engraver and has him forging Mexican bills. He captures wild horses supposedly to sell for hides but uses them to transport the bills across the border. Police captain Juan Reyes (Richard Avonde) is posing as a bandit to uncover the counterfeiters smuggling fake pesos into Mexico, and is assisted by feisty youngsters Red (Michael Chapin) and Judy (Eilene Janssen), who are trying to protect the wild horses being used by the gang. The kids suspect that rancher Big John Harkins (Roy Barcroft) is the leader of the gang and that he is forcing Mexican artist Espinosa (Julian Rivero) to help him.
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Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: Curt Walker
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Leadville Gunslinger
Title: Leadville Gunslinger
Character: Chet Yonker / Pete Yonker
Released: March 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Arriving in Leadville, Marshal Rocky Lane finds that his friend Nugget is in financial trouble. Nugget thinks there is oil on his land but the geologist says no. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rocky poses as a crook himself to infiltrate the gang, nab the ringleader and make sure justice takes the day. Harry Keller directs this B Western.
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Captive of Billy the Kid
Title: Captive of Billy the Kid
Character: Piute
Released: January 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Five people have a part of a map leading to Billy the Kid's treasure. When one of them is killed, Rocky Lane has a plan to find the killer.
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Radar Men from the Moon
Title: Radar Men from the Moon
Character: Retik
Released: January 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Commando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a flying suit and a rocket to the Moon. When the nation's defences are being sabotaged and destroyed, Cody learns that an atomic-gun is being used and that the men on the moon are the culprits.
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Desert of Lost Men
Title: Desert of Lost Men
Character: Link
Released: November 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand dollars the citizens have raised to build a new hospital. After one of the town's doctors is killed in an ambush, Rocky devises a plan with the remaining doctor and sheriff to smoke out the bad guys.
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Pals of the Golden West
Title: Pals of the Golden West
Character: Ward Sloan
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico.
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Street Bandits
Title: Street Bandits
Character: Monk Walter
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A lawyer (Robert Clarke) defends a slot-machine king, and his bride (Penny Edwards) and partner (Ross Ford) don't like it.
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Honeychile
Title: Honeychile
Character: Walter Judson
Released: October 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
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Utah Wagon Train
Title: Utah Wagon Train
Character: Hank Driscoll
Released: October 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
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Arizona Manhunt
Title: Arizona Manhunt
Character: Pete Willard
Released: September 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Arizona Manhunt was the second entry in Republic's "Rough Ridin' Kids" series. Michael Chapin returns as Red, the precocious grandson of Sheriff White (James Bell), while Eilene Janssen likewise reappears as Red's best friend Judy. Once again, the two kids get involved with grown-up western desperadoes, in this case the outlaw gang formerly controlled by Judy's foster father.
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Fort Dodge Stampede
Title: Fort Dodge Stampede
Character: Henchman Pike Hardin
Released: August 24, 1951
Type: Movie
The Pike gang steal $30,000 from the Adams Bank, but one of them double crosses the rest of the gang and hides the money in Fort Dodge, Nevada. As Fort Dodge is out of his jurisdiction, Deputy Sheriff 'Rocky' Lane (Allan Lane) takes a vacation there and finds that everything is owned by 'Skeeter' Davis (Chubby Johnson), who knows nothing about the hidden money. But the Pike gang is also in town looking for the money. When settlers come to town, Rocky devises a plan to catch the outlaws and retrieve the money for the Adams Bank
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
Title: Rodeo King and the Senorita
Character: Steve Lacey
Released: July 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
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The Dakota Kid
Title: The Dakota Kid
Character: Henchman Turk Smith
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Dakota Kid is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall. Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White and then use his power to enrich himself at the community's expense. Dakota impersonates a long-lost nephew of the sheriff, and is made a marshal. Through his association with the sheriff's grandson, Red White and his friend Judy, plus falling in love with Mary Lewis, the Kid gradually reforms.
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Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Title: Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Character: Brick Mason
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even the outlaws who rob the stage, Rocky goes undercover as an outlaw.
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Clint Burnside
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Don Daredevil Rides Again
Title: Don Daredevil Rides Again
Character: Douglas Stratton
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12 chapter cliffhanger, this time without the financially strapped studio having to credit Zorro creator Johnston McCulley or pay any royalties. Zorro simply became "Don Daredevil" (Ken Curtis), a foppish Easterner by day turned masked avenger by night. Like his not too distant relative, Don wore his disguise in order to battle nasty Roy Barcroft who, under a forged Spanish land grant, attempts to take over the surrounding ranch land.
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Insurance Investigator
Title: Insurance Investigator
Character: Duke Wallace
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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Night Riders of Montana
Title: Night Riders of Montana
Character: Henchman Brink
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
After being hit by rustlers, a group of Montana ranchers asks the governor to send state rangers for protection. State Ranger Rocky Lane becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a gang of horse rustlers and a young rancher who is blamed falsely for a killing. Lane helps uncover the real killers and unmasks the ringleader of the rustlers.
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The Missourians
Title: The Missourians
Character: Nick Kovacs
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
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Under Mexicali Stars
Title: Under Mexicali Stars
Character: Hays Lawson
Released: November 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.
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North of the Great Divide
Title: North of the Great Divide
Character: Banning
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
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Rustlers on Horseback
Title: Rustlers on Horseback
Character: Leo Straykin
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
When he catches wind that bookish George Parradine (John Eldredge) is actually a ruthless outlaw who's had one man killed and is now trying to steal a fortune from another, U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) poses as a bandit and infiltrates Parradine's gang. But Rocky's quest for justice is jeopardized when the dead man's son (George Nader) also goes undercover to get revenge on his father's killer. Fred C. Brannon directs this 1950 Western.
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Prisoners in Petticoats
Title: Prisoners in Petticoats
Character: Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Deputy Gerard
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
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Vigilante Hideout
Title: Vigilante Hideout
Character: Muley Price
Released: August 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to realize just three cows owned by eccentric inventor, Nugget Clark, are involved. However, the disappearances lead to a deeper mystery involving dynamite explosions, rampaging cowboys and a water shortage.
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Desperadoes of the West
Title: Desperadoes of the West
Character: Hacker
Released: August 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
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The Savage Horde
Title: The Savage Horde
Character: Fergus
Released: May 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Barnes
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Salt Lake Raiders
Title: Salt Lake Raiders
Character: Brit Condor
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
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The Arizona Cowboy
Title: The Arizona Cowboy
Character: Henchman Mike Slade
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
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The Vanishing Westerner
Title: The Vanishing Westerner
Character: Sand Sanderson
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.
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Code of the Silver Sage
Title: Code of the Silver Sage
Character: Hulon Champion
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the guise of a respectable firearms merchant. Hoping to eradicate the lawlessness plaguing the newspaperman Fred Gately prints a letter asking the president to visit the area. But Fred's killed by secret gang leader Champion, who also plans to assassinate the president. Undercover officer Rocky Lane teams with his assistant, Nugget, and Fred's spunky daughter to combat Champion's head gunslinger.
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Federal Agent at Large
Title: Federal Agent at Large
Character: Nels Berger
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
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Gunmen of Abilene
Title: Gunmen of Abilene
Character: Brink Fallon
Released: February 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Abilene gunmen are bent on terrorizing the town of Blue Valley and massacring its inhabitants. They have been hired by local druggist Henry Turner, who has discovered gold beneath the town and wishes complete possession.
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Powder River Rustlers
Title: Powder River Rustlers
Character: Henchman Bull Macons
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Powder River Rustlers is a western film directed by Philip Ford in 1949. The railroad is coming and to get the townspeople's money. Shears Williams brings in a fake Agent who tells them they must raise $50,000 as their share of a railroad bridge. Railroad Agent Rocky Lane arrives and immediately spots the fake. A phony telegram assures Rocky his friend is still alive and he sets out to find him and his abductor.
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Pioneer Marshal
Title: Pioneer Marshal
Character: Clip Pearson
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote frontier town that serves as an outlaw hideaway. All previous lawmen have been disposed of by town boss Bruce Burnett (Damian O'Flynn), who demands a hefty price for his services.
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Title: Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Character: Mark Sanders
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.
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San Antone Ambush
Title: San Antone Ambush
Character: Henchman Roberts
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.
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Down Dakota Way
Title: Down Dakota Way
Character: Mack McKenzie
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the government. Rogers manages to straighten out the situation by appealing to the sensibilities of the aunt (Elizabeth Risdon) of McKenzie's hotheaded hired assassin (Byron Barr). The film also bears several musical numbers from Roy, Dale Evans, and Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage.
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The James Brothers of Missouri
Title: The James Brothers of Missouri
Character: Ace Marlin
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of course, there's no room in the Wild West for reformed outlaws, and the duo inevitably find themselves caught up in showdowns and robberies.
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South of Rio
Title: South of Rio
Character: Lon Bryson
Released: July 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple of phony protection associations. Opposing them is Henry Waterman, publisher of the Rio Blanco Herald. He and his assistant, Andrew Jackson Weems, send for the help of the Territorial Rangers. One of the dispatched Rangers is Jeff Lanning who, unknown to him, has a brother as a member of the gang under an assumed name of Bob Mitchell. Jeff is so shocked at seeing his brother gun down Waterman that he is unable to act in time to prevent it. Unable to explain the cause of is inaction, he is suspended by the governor. Unable to persuade his brother to quit the gang, Jeff, with the aid of Weems and Waterman's daughter Carol, begins his quest to bring the outlaws to justice.
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Outcasts of the Trail
Title: Outcasts of the Trail
Character: Jim Judd
Released: June 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Parker (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
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Law of the Golden West
Title: Law of the Golden West
Character: Clete Larrabee
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
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Frontier Investigator
Title: Frontier Investigator
Character: Flint Fleming
Released: May 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane, out to find the murderer of his brother, runs into a battle between two stage lines for a mail contract.
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Prince of the Plains
Title: Prince of the Plains
Character: Henchman Regan
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and unable to pay. But the secret leader of the gang is James Taylor large stockholder of the bank.....
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Ghost of Zorro
Title: Ghost of Zorro
Character: Hank Kilgore
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
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Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.
Title: Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.
Character: Spade Gordon
Released: January 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The female leader of an international crime ring steals a valuable artifact that can give her the power to control men's minds. Federal agents are dispatched to get it back and stop her evil plans.
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Sheriff of Wichita
Title: Sheriff of Wichita
Character: Sam Stark
Released: January 22, 1949
Type: Movie
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major Bishop, neither the money or Bishop have ever been found and Raymond was convicted of the theft. Now he is at the abandoned fort, an escaped convict with a letter, looking to find the truth about the robbery. Members of his old command are also there and Rocky shows up to return Raymond to prison.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Henchman Bart
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Renegades of Sonora
Title: Renegades of Sonora
Character: George Keeler
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Rocky Lane thwarts an attack on a courier delivering a precious Indian tribal belt and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy in the process. When the courier dies, Rocky delivers the belt to the Agent. But he quickly finds himself arrested for murder and learns not only is the belt missing, but the murdered Agent is not the man he gave the belt to.
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Sundown in Santa Fe
Title: Sundown in Santa Fe
Character: Tracy Gillette
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
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Grand Canyon Trail
Title: Grand Canyon Trail
Character: Henchman Dave Williams
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. Carol comes out to look for silver to save the company, but does not know that their engineer, named Regan, is crooked and wants all the silver for himself. But only Old Ed knows where the mother lode is located.
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Desperadoes of Dodge City
Title: Desperadoes of Dodge City
Character: Homesteader
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the stagecoach has it. When Rocky and the four get trapped in a shack by the outlaw gang, he learns that one of the four is the gang leader. Rocky has to learn his identity and retrieve the message.
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Out of the Storm
Title: Out of the Storm
Character: Arty Sorenson
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
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Sons of Adventure
Title: Sons of Adventure
Character: Leslie Bennett
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
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Daredevils of the Clouds
Title: Daredevils of the Clouds
Character: RCMP Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.
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Marshal of Amarillo
Title: Marshal of Amarillo
Character: Ben Dolan
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
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Train to Alcatraz
Title: Train to Alcatraz
Character: Guard Grady
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.
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Eyes of Texas
Title: Eyes of Texas
Character: Vic
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A ranch owner turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer covets the ranch and uses a gang of local toughs, a pack of killer dogs, and a phoney rancher's beneficiary to get it. U.S. Marshal Rogers opens an investigation when the rancher is killed.
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The Timber Trail
Title: The Timber Trail
Character: Big Bart
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.
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Secret Service Investigator
Title: Secret Service Investigator
Character: Al Turk
Released: May 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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Old Los Angeles
Title: Old Los Angeles
Character: Clyborne
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the early statehood days of California, with Elliot keeping the peace and warding off plunderers and marauders. As always, Elliot is a "peaceable man"--until he beats the tar out of those who rile him. The problem with Elliot's more expensive Republic vehicles is that action invariably took a back seat to plot, romance, costumes and decor. Within a year of Old Los Angeles, Elliot started a more austere, less prettified and far superior western series.
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The Bold Frontiersman
Title: The Bold Frontiersman
Character: Smiling Jim
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.
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Lightnin' in the Forest
Title: Lightnin' in the Forest
Character: Police Lieut. Bain
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
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Madonna of the Desert
Title: Madonna of the Desert
Character: Buck Keaton
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
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Oklahoma Badlands
Title: Oklahoma Badlands
Character: Henchman Sanders
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Rawlins ranch. His henchman Sanders kills Ken Rawlins but when he tries to kill Leslie Rawlins, Rocky Lane breaks it up. But Leslie is a woman and knowing the bad guys are looking for a man, Rocky now poses as Leslie, an Eastern dude, and goes after the man that killed his friend.
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G-Men Never Forget
Title: G-Men Never Forget
Character: Vic Murkland - Commissioner Angus Cameron
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
An escaped criminal impersonates a Police Commissioner, causing no end of trouble to a determined Federal Agent.
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The Main Street Kid
Title: The Main Street Kid
Character: Torrey
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
Title: Bandits of Dark Canyon
Character: Jeff Conley
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
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The Fabulous Texan
Title: The Fabulous Texan
Character: Standifer
Released: November 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
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The Wild Frontier
Title: The Wild Frontier
Character: Henchman
Released: September 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest marshal. That marshal is Frank Lane, who brings his son Rocky with him.
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Along the Oregon Trail
Title: Along the Oregon Trail
Character: Jake Stoner
Released: August 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians but Monte Hale breaks up his attack on the supply train. But when they get them by robbing the warehouse, Monte suspects Thuston who had the other key. He follows Thurston only to be caught by him just as Thurston launches his final big attack.
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Marshal of Cripple Creek
Title: Marshal of Cripple Creek
Character: Henchman Sweeney
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Tom Lambert arrives and Long John Case gets him into trouble. To protect his wife and son he refuses to talk and is sent to prison. Long John then gets Lambert's son into his outlaw gang but Lambert is told the boy's problems are caused by Red Ryder. So Lambert breaks prison planning to kill Red. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]
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Jesse James Rides Again
Title: Jesse James Rides Again
Character: Frank Lawton
Released: August 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Jesse James wants to start a new life in a new location, but quickly finds himself wrapped-up in protecting townsfolk from the machinations of evil oilmen.
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Wyoming
Title: Wyoming
Character: Sheriff Niles
Released: July 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Spice Kellaway
Released: July 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
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Springtime in the Sierras
Title: Springtime in the Sierras
Character: Matt Wilkes
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
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Rustlers of Devil's Canyon
Title: Rustlers of Devil's Canyon
Character: Land Agent Clark
Released: June 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Red Ryder returns to Sioux City, Wyoming, at the close of the Spanish-American War, settling down at the ranch of his aunt, The Duchess, with his pals Little Beaver and "Blizzard". But Red soon discovers that the country is over-run by rustlers.
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Web of Danger
Title: Web of Danger
Character: Monks, Worker
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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Oregon Trail Scouts
Title: Oregon Trail Scouts
Character: Bill Hunter
Released: May 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox.
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Spoilers of the North
Title: Spoilers of the North
Character: Moose McGovern
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.
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Vigilantes of Boomtown
Title: Vigilantes of Boomtown
Character: McKean
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters soemwhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.
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Last Frontier Uprising
Title: Last Frontier Uprising
Character: Henchman Boyd Blackwell
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself, but a federal agent, dispatched to Texas to buy horses on behalf of the government. Hale runs up against a vicious gang of horse thieves, including such veteran western hard cases as Roy Barcroft and Philip van Zandt. The romantic interest is in the dainty hands of Adrian Booth, who used to go by the name of Lorna Gray. Put together with the standard Republic efficiency, The Last Frontier Uprising benefits from the breathless direction of Lesley Selander.
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Son of Zorro
Title: Son of Zorro
Character: Henchman Boyd
Released: January 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
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Stagecoach to Denver
Title: Stagecoach to Denver
Character: Big Bill Lambert
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax, Lambert has his stooge Sheriff put Red in jail.
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Character: Blackmailer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
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G.I. War Brides
Title: G.I. War Brides
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
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The Last Crooked Mile
Title: The Last Crooked Mile
Character: Man on Street
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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Night Train to Memphis
Title: Night Train to Memphis
Character: Chad Morgan
Released: July 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
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My Pal Trigger
Title: My Pal Trigger
Character: Henchman Hunter
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.
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Traffic in Crime
Title: Traffic in Crime
Character: Insp. Tip Hogan
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
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Daughter of Don Q
Title: Daughter of Don Q
Character: Mel Donovan
Released: June 27, 1946
Type: Movie
When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to the heirs of Don Quantero, he employs Mel Donovan and his killer henchmen to murder them all. That will leave Manning as the sole heir to millions. However, Delores Quantero tumbles to this plot and enlists the aide of two-fisted reporter, Cliff Roberts to save all her relatives
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Sun Valley Cyclone
Title: Sun Valley Cyclone
Character: Blackie Blake
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.
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Home on the Range
Title: Home on the Range
Character: Henchman
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. Trouble lies ahead.....
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Alias Billy the Kid
Title: Alias Billy the Kid
Character: Matt Conroy
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Sunset Carson is given the mission of tracking down the notorious Marshall gang. Uncovering their hideout, he discovers the gang is led by Ann Marshall and is comprised of three of her ranch-hands, Dakota, PeeWee and Buckskin. He soon learns that they are the innocent victims of a ring of swindlers and cattle rustlers led by the ruthless Matt Conroy.
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Crime of the Century
Title: Crime of the Century
Character: Various Voices (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: The Marshal
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
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Song of Mexico
Title: Song of Mexico
Character: Visitor
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.
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Wagon Wheels Westward
Title: Wagon Wheels Westward
Character: Dave McKean Posing as John Larkin
Released: December 21, 1945
Type: Movie
In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Poli's Driver
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
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The Cherokee Flash
Title: The Cherokee Flash
Character: Jeff Carson
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Lawyer Butler, wanting Jeff Carson's ranch, has the Sheriff and his gang frame the bank holdup on him. Then they kill a witness that could free Carson and blame the murder on his son Sunset. But Sunset escapes, frees his father, and then sets a trap to catch the real killers.
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Colorado Pioneers
Title: Colorado Pioneers
Character: Bull Reagan
Released: November 14, 1945
Type: Movie
An interesting entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder" B-Western series, this film is not about hardy settlers braving the Colorado winters, as the title would suggest. Instead it's a sort of Reform School Western about a couple of wayward Chicago boys (Billy Cummings and Freddie Chapman) taken in by Ryder's indomitable aunt, "The Duchess" (Alice Fleming.) The boys escaped their very own "Fagin," Bull Reagan (Roy Barcroft), and were given a second chance on the lady's Western ranch. Unfortunately, Reagan returns to do a bit of cattle rustling, once again luring the boys into becoming his accomplices.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Police Dispatcher (voice)
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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Marshal of Laredo
Title: Marshal of Laredo
Character: Denver Jack
Released: October 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw
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The Purple Monster Strikes
Title: The Purple Monster Strikes
Character: The Purple Monster
Released: October 6, 1945
Type: Movie
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterrestrial Purple Monster can complete the rocket ship and return to Mars, he will be able to start a full-scale invasion of Earth. Good thing Craig Foster sets out to thwart the Monster's mission!
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Sunset in El Dorado
Title: Sunset in El Dorado
Character: Buster Welch
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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Along the Navajo Trail
Title: Along the Navajo Trail
Character: Rusty Channing
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
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Trail of Kit Carson
Title: Trail of Kit Carson
Character: Doc Ryan
Released: July 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in their California mine. Arriving there, Bill learns from elderly miner John Benton that Dave is dead and that he sold the mine at a strangely low price the night before his supposed accidental death. Harmon suspects murder.
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Bells of Rosarita
Title: Bells of Rosarita
Character: Henchman Maxwell
Released: June 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
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Santa Fe Saddlemates
Title: Santa Fe Saddlemates
Character: John Gant
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Governor Price sends Sunset Carson to investigate a smuggling ring which is baffling the Border Patrol. Newspaper woman Ann Morton is working incognito in the saloon waiting for a break on ...
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Lone Texas Ranger
Title: Lone Texas Ranger
Character: Hands Weber
Released: May 20, 1945
Type: Movie
"Iron Mike" Haines (Tom Chatterton), a crooked sheriff, and "Hands" Weber (Roy Barcroft), the town blacksmith, are in cahoots and have been robbing stages, silver mines, etc., and framing innocent ranchers and cowhands with their deeds. They set out to rob the stage and frame Red Ryder (Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Elliott) for it, but the plan backfires and the sheriff is killed. The sheriff's son, Tommy (Jack McClendon), arrives home from college and is given his dad's job, not knowing he was a crook, and swears to get the man who killed him. Weber tells Tommy that Red killed his dad and Tommy sets out to get Red.
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Corpus Christi Bandits
Title: Corpus Christi Bandits
Character: Wade Larkin
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the story of his father Corpus Christi Jim. After robbing a stage, Jim and partners Rocky and Steve decide to go straight and return the money. But the fourth member of the gang, Spade refuses and leaves. The two former partners soon find themselves on opposite sides of the law.
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The Vampire's Ghost
Title: The Vampire's Ghost
Character: Capt. Jim Barrett
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
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Manhunt of Mystery Island
Title: Manhunt of Mystery Island
Character: Capt. Mephisto
Released: March 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.
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The Topeka Terror
Title: The Topeka Terror
Character: Ben Jode
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
The Topeka Terror is a western film of 1945 directed by Howard Bretherton. The land-rush opening of the Cherokee Strip brings in its wake a scattering of outlaws and claim jumpers. Among these is a crooked promoter. Trent Parker (Frank Jacquet), and his henchmen who plan a huge swindle by compiling falsified reports, putting the claims of honest settlers into the names of various henchmen. Clay Stevens (Allan Lane), a government agent posing as a drifting cowhand, advises the settlers to organize their resistance. Ben Jode (Roy Barcroft), the gang leader, runs for sheriff so he can gain full control of the town.
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The Big Bonanza
Title: The Big Bonanza
Character: Sheriff Dan Pendleton
Released: December 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
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Firebrands of Arizona
Title: Firebrands of Arizona
Character: Deputy Ike
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps them get away.
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Sheriff of Sundown
Title: Sheriff of Sundown
Character: Jack Hatfield
Released: November 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield. He does OK but learns Hatfield is cheating the small outfits. When one refuses to sell he is murdered and Tex then decides to stay and take up the fight. He is appointed a special Agent by the Governor but unknonw to him the Governor's Secretary is a spy for Hatfield and reveals his plans.
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Lights of Old Santa Fe
Title: Lights of Old Santa Fe
Character: Ken Ferguson
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.
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Code of the Prairie
Title: Code of the Prairie
Character: Professor Graham
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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Cheyenne Wildcat
Title: Cheyenne Wildcat
Character: Dandy Joe Meeker
Released: September 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Bill Elliot is back as Red Ryder in Cheyenne Wildcat. Also back are Ryder's perennial cohorts Little Beaver (Bobby Blake, later Robert Blake of Baretta fame) and the Duchess (Alice Fleming). When not pummeling the bad guys, Ryder is the reluctant apex of a love triangle.
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Stagecoach to Monterey
Title: Stagecoach to Monterey
Character: J. Rodney Stevens
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Barstow and Stevens are forcing the local printer to print fake silver certificates which they then sell. Treasury Agents Chick Weaver and Throckmorton Snodgrass arrive working under cover. But when Chick's true identity as an Agent is revealed, Barstow sends his henchmen to finish him off.
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Haunted Harbor
Title: Haunted Harbor
Character: Carter / Kane
Released: August 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--the captain's former partner--is hiding so the captain can clear his name. As it turns out, their troubles are only beginning
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The Girl Who Dared
Title: The Girl Who Dared
Character: David Scott
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
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Call of the South Seas
Title: Call of the South Seas
Character: Steve Landrau
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
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The Laramie Trail
Title: The Laramie Trail
Character: Dick Rapidan
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
A cowbody acquires a ranch whose previous owner is believed to be dead.
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Hidden Valley Outlaws
Title: Hidden Valley Outlaws
Character: Gilbert J. Leland
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arrive to help the ranchers, he has actor Percel frame them for murder and then incites the townsmen to lynch them.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Seabee Barcroft (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Raiders of Sunset Pass
Title: Raiders of Sunset Pass
Character: Henchman Lefty Lewis
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Dad Mathews, a rancher with a huge government contract order for beef, has trouble with the cattle rustlers, led by Henry Judson and Lefty Lewis, who are taking advantage of the situation to steal his herds. John Paul Revere, Special State Investigator, arrives, and upon meeting Mathews' daughter, Betty, gets the idea of recruiting the hard-riding daughters of the district into the WAPS, an organization which will be to the cattle country what the WACS and WAVES are to the Army and Navy. He trains them in military procedure and provides them with radio sending-and-receiving sets. Johnny's sidekick, Frog Millhouse, finds himself the possessor of a "walkie-talkie" which he considers just a "doo-dad" at first, but which is instrumental in the end, in helping Johnny and the WAPS trap the gang of rustlers in their hideout.
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Canyon City
Title: Canyon City
Character: Jeff Parker
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
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Overland Mail Robbery
Title: Overland Mail Robbery
Character: David Patterson
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The Hartley--Goodrich stage line suffers a double blow when its founders, Frank Hartley and Marcus Goodrich, are killed during robbery attempts. Goodrich's daughter Judith and the company foreman, Gabby Hayes, are determined to keep the business going, despite debt caused by the string of attacks.
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False Colors
Title: False Colors
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Cattlemen Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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The Man from the Rio Grande
Title: The Man from the Rio Grande
Character: Henchman Ace Holden
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
The suspicious death of Henry King during a hunting trip with his brother John leaves the inheritance of the rich Santa Rita Ranch to be shared with John, Henry's daughter Doris and a young girl from New York, Twinkle Watts. King says that a son, Henry King Jr., who left home as a young boy was killed in a Texas gunfight. - Written by Les Adams
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Wagon Tracks West
Title: Wagon Tracks West
Character: Henchman Laird
Released: August 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
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Six Gun Gospel
Title: Six Gun Gospel
Character: Henchman Durkin
Released: August 3, 1943
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks through town and Benton is attempting to secure the land by scaring off the settlers.
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The Stranger From Pecos
Title: The Stranger From Pecos
Character: Sheriff Ben
Released: July 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
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Bordertown Gun Fighters
Title: Bordertown Gun Fighters
Character: Jack Gatling
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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Riders of the Rio Grande
Title: Riders of the Rio Grande
Character: Sarsaparilla
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Title: Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Character: Captain Carson
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
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Cheyenne Roundup
Title: Cheyenne Roundup
Character: Slim Layton
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Mark Carter
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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Hoppy Serves a Writ
Title: Hoppy Serves a Writ
Character: Colby
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Townsman Slugging Bud
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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Carson City Cyclone
Title: Carson City Cyclone
Character: Prosecutor Joe Newman
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When the night watchman at the bank is gunned down during a robbery, he fingers Barton as the trigger man. When the trial comes up in neighboring Carson City, Gil finds a witness named Shepherd who says that Barton was with him on the night of the murder. Gil gets Barton off, but Shepherd soon cashes a check from Gil at the bank and that raises questions. His father, Judge Phalen, starts an action against Gil, and when his father is shot dead, Gil is blamed for his murder.
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Ridin' Down the Canyon
Title: Ridin' Down the Canyon
Character: Henchman
Released: December 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Chuck Loder
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
Title: The Valley of Vanishing Men
Character: Deputy Jed 'Luke' Lucas
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
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The Old Chisholm Trail
Title: The Old Chisholm Trail
Character: Ed Phillips
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
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Pirates of the Prairie
Title: Pirates of the Prairie
Character: Lew Harmon
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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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Dan Carson
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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West of the Law
Title: West of the Law
Character: Ludlow
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders arrive to fight Rand, Ludlow and their gang. Buck poses as a preacher, Tim as a preacher, and Sandy as an undertaker. Buck not only wants the outlaws, but also their unknown boss.
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Sunset Serenade
Title: Sunset Serenade
Character: Bart Reynolds - Henchman
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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Stardust on the Sage
Title: Stardust on the Sage
Character: Henchman Murphy
Released: May 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Henchman Pete
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
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Land of the Open Range
Title: Land of the Open Range
Character: Gil Carse
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: Deputy Nelson
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Title: The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Character: Mort Saunders
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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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Chief Petty Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Below the Border
Title: Below the Border
Character: Ed Scully
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can steal the family jewels. But the Rough Riders are on the job. Buck poses as a wanted outlaw to get into the gang, Tim as a cattle buyer, and Sandy is collecting information as the saloon janitor. As usual they pretend not to know each other. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Riders of the Badlands
Title: Riders of the Badlands
Character: Captain Rogers
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Officially a Charles Starrett western, Riders of the Badlands divides its running time fairly evenly between Starrett and second-billed Russell Hayden. The plot concerns a Texas Ranger named Collins and his lookalike, notorious outlaw Langdon. When his wife is killed by Langdon's minions, Barton vows to avenge her death.
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West of Cimarron
Title: West of Cimarron
Character: Captain Hawks
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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The Masked Rider
Title: The Masked Rider
Character: Henchman Luke
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Henchman Vern Stone
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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The Bandit Trail
Title: The Bandit Trail
Character: Joel Nesbitt
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Ross
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Title: Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Character: Val Lamar
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
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Wide Open Town
Title: Wide Open Town
Character: Henchman Red
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Riders of Death Valley
Title: Riders of Death Valley
Character: Henchman Dirk
Released: July 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Saloon Boss
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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Pals of the Pecos
Title: Pals of the Pecos
Character: Keno
Released: April 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Cop at Newspaper Truck Vandalism
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Trailing Double Trouble
Title: Trailing Double Trouble
Character: Jim Moreland
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Title: Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Character: Henchman Putt
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers.
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Stage to Chino
Title: Stage to Chino
Character: Dude Elliott
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Marshal Jim Bridges' Imposter
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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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Logan
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Hidden Gold
Title: Hidden Gold
Character: Hendricks
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
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Bad Man from Red Butte
Title: Bad Man from Red Butte
Character: Henchman Hank
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Bowman
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Ming's Soldier / Arborian Sentry (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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West of Carson City
Title: West of Carson City
Character: Bill Tompkins
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.
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Yukon Flight
Title: Yukon Flight
Character: Henchman Lodin
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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Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: Henchman Green
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Slim (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Riders of the Frontier
Title: Riders of the Frontier
Character: Outlaw Ed Carter
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton, a prisoner. Tex Lowery, an undercover Texas Ranger, rescues Martha Williams, a nurse sent for by the ailing Sarah, from a stagecoach holdup by Lane's henchmen. He later convinces Laner that he is a wanted outlaw named Ed Carter, and gains entry to Rancho Grande. But the real Ed Carter shows up.
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Renegade Trail
Title: Renegade Trail
Character: Stiff-Hat Bailey
Released: July 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Colonel Custer
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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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Mine Superintendent
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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The Man from Texas
Title: The Man from Texas
Character: Henchman Drifter
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Hall is after Dennison's land and hires the Shooting Kid to finish him off. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison, but the Kid has been helped by Tex in the past and changes sides.
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Silver on the Sage
Title: Silver on the Sage
Character: Henchman Ewing
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Mac McElroy
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Reilly - Casino Patron
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: AMI Agent Parker
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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The Frontiersmen
Title: The Frontiersmen
Character: Sutton
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
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The Stranger from Arizona
Title: The Stranger from Arizona
Character: Henchman Thane
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
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Heroes of the Hills
Title: Heroes of the Hills
Character: Robert Beaton
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.
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Flaming Frontiers
Title: Flaming Frontiers
Character: Ben Hollister - Henchman
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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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Attorney Meadows (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Rosalie
Title: Rosalie
Character: Conspirator (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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A Woman Commands
Title: A Woman Commands
Character: Cossack
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.