John Wayne

John Wayne

Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
in Winterset, Iowa, USA
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.

Born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout the 1930s, many of them in the Western genre.

Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures. Biographer Ronald Davis said, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them, he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth."

Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), and a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.

Movies for John Wayne...

The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
Title: The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 17, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light.
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Sly
Title: Sly
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 2023
Type: Movie
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
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John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Title: John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
John Wayne was a legendary actor and an embodiment of America itself. While he played men who always do the right thing on camera his real life is far more complicated.
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Title: Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 13, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
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John Wayne - America at All Costs
Title: John Wayne - America at All Costs
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man who climbed the Hollywood ladder, one rung at a time, until he reached the top and became the most popular American actor of his era.
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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Title: John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Character: Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: February 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the underprivileged, from humble cowboys to persecuted minorities, he revealed like no one else the great social divisions that existed and still exist in the United States. More than four decades after his death, what remains of his legacy and humanistic values in the memory of those who love his work?
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John Wayne on Film
Title: John Wayne on Film
Character: Himself
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the career of actor John Wayne, showing clips from many of his most famous films.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Title: And the Oscar Goes To...
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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Dictator: One Crazy Job
Title: Dictator: One Crazy Job
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 12, 2013
Type: Movie
They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.
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John Ford & Monument Valley
Title: John Ford & Monument Valley
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: Movie
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford
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Title: Talking Pictures
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: TV
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Title: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
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Nuke 'Em, Duke
Title: Nuke 'Em, Duke
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The Conqueror (1956) starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Shooting took place downwind from a nuclear testing site and close to half the cast & crew developed cancer, including "The Duke" himself. This video looks at “conquest” in past and present media, fiction and non-fiction, and the “compression” of these experiences into mediated forms.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Title: 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 2, 2009
Type: Movie
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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Title: Battleground
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
Features historic films from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and more.
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The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Title: The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Released: July 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary short about the making of John Wayne's final movie, the 1976 film The Shootist.
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The Duke at Fox
Title: The Duke at Fox
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 17, 2001
Type: Movie
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John Wayne - Ein Leben für den Film
Title: John Wayne - Ein Leben für den Film
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
Title: JOHN WAYNE - AMERICAN LEGEND
Character: Himself
Released: March 14, 1998
Type: Movie
This installment in A&E's Biography series follows the life of John Wayne from his troubled childhood to his peak as America's biggest box-office draw to his later years as a controversial conservative icon. Examined closely, Wayne's life is a startling series of contradictions. He was a member of his high school's Shakespeare club who began his career by acting in scores of B-grade Westerns, and though he avoided military service, he was considered an American hero. Filled with well-chosen archival stills, as well as seldom-seen early clips, this video also features interviews with fellow actors Charlton Heston and Ron Howard, as well as writer and scholar Garry Wills (author of a brilliant intellectual study of Wayne's work and life, John Wayne's America).
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Title: Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they made two films together, the first of which was Point Blank, during which Boorman found that he learnt a lot about screen acting and how to direct from the contributions and support from Marvin. Later they worked together on Hell in the Pacific. With his friendship providing an insightful collection of memories of Marvin, Boorman leads this intimate documentary on the life of Lee Marvin.
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The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Title: The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Character: Self - Roaster (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
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La Classe américaine
Title: La Classe américaine
Character: George Abitbol (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
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Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
Title: Young Duke: Making Of A Movie Star
Character: Himself
Released: July 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Join host Leonard Maltin as he explores the early life of John Wayne (born as Marion Michael Morrison) as a college football star. After a chance meeting with film legend John Ford, Wayne exchanged his cleats for spurs and a cowboy hat and the rest was movie history.
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The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
Title: The John Wayne Story - The Later Years
Character: Himself
Released: May 15, 1993
Type: Movie
See the legendary John Wayne at his greatest in two-fisted action, interviews, rare photos, and more, in this documentary covering his screen career from Big Jim McLain to his final film, The Shootist. Back in the saddle with Westerns like Hondo, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, McLintock!, and Chisum, he also varied his output in The High and the Mighty, Blood Alley, Wings of Eagles, McQ, and Brannigan. The Duke even directed himself in The Alamo and The Green Berets, and finally won a long-awaited Academy Award as the one-eyed lawman in True Grit, a role he repeated in Rooster Cogburn. See Wayne promoting his protégé, James Arness, in Gunsmoke; making public service appearances for the Red Cross, Christmas Seals, and the American Cancer Society; and receiving his Oscar.
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The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
Title: The John Wayne Story: The Early Years
Released: February 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Film clips, trailers and rare photos combine to tell the story of John Wayne's evolution from mild-mannered USC student Marion Morrison to the ultimate Western hero of the silver screen. Highlights include clips from his silent-movie debut, his first leading role, and his bizarre failed attempt to become a singing cowboy. Other excerpts include scenes from Flying Tigers, The Quiet Man and his breakthrough, Stagecoach.
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The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Title: The Making of 'Rio Grande'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A short documentary about the making of John Ford's "Rio Grande."
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John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Title: John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Character: Davy Crockett
Released: June 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film, clips from it and interviews with members of the cast, crew and local residents in Brackettville, TX, where it was filmed.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Title: John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
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Movie Tough Guys
Title: Movie Tough Guys
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—Bogart, Brando, Cagney and more!
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John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
Title: John Wayne: American Hero Of The Movies
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
This tribute to John Wayne features some of the greatest action scenes from various films
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Title: Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Title: Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Character: (Archival Footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Title: Perry Como's Early American Christmas
Character: Self
Released: December 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Perry Como celebrates an early American Christmas in Williamsburg VA.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: John Wyatt aka John Allen
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: John Wyatt aka John Allen (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: Stony Brooke (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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That's Action
Title: That's Action
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A documentary about old action movies and action heroes with John Wayne as the center piece. Although interesting it is filled more with action sequences from movies then information about the heroes. Running time is approximately 100 minutes. - Written by Sim Pertuit
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This Little Bullet
Title: This Little Bullet
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
This gun safety film starring John Wayne is just as timely and appropriate today as when it was first shown almost 40 years ago.
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Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
Title: Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special
Released: December 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Bob Hope and friends celebrate Christmas with skits and interviews.
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Title: CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1976
Type: Movie
CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
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The Shootist
Title: The Shootist
Character: J.B. Books
Released: July 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: Jerry Mason
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
Title: Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
Character: Himself/Narrator
Released: April 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A tribute documentary on the most decorated U.S. Marine, General Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Rooster Cogburn
Title: Rooster Cogburn
Character: Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brannigan
Title: Brannigan
Character: Lt. Jim Brannigan
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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McQ
Title: McQ
Character: McQ
Released: January 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
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Title: The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: TV
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club in New York City. The format would have the celebrity guest seated at a banquet table, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. The final season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement. For the 1973–1974 season, a new feature called “Man of the Week Celebrity Roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be popular among television audiences and are often marketed in post-issues as part of the official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Martin Show. After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow.
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Cahill: United States Marshall
Title: Cahill: United States Marshall
Character: J.D. Cahill
Released: July 11, 1973
Type: Movie
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
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Title: The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
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The Train Robbers
Title: The Train Robbers
Character: Lane
Released: February 7, 1973
Type: Movie
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
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Wayne Train
Title: Wayne Train
Character: Self
Released: February 7, 1973
Type: Movie
A short documentary on the making of THE TRAIN ROBBERS
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.
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Cancel My Reservation
Title: Cancel My Reservation
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
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Title: Maude
Character: Himself
Released: September 12, 1972
Type: TV
Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip.
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The Cowboys
Title: The Cowboys
Character: Wil Andersen
Released: January 13, 1972
Type: Movie
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
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The American West of John Ford
Title: The American West of John Ford
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: December 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director 'John Ford' , including clips from his work and interviews with his colleagues.
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Directed by John Ford
Title: Directed by John Ford
Character: Self (1969)
Released: September 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
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Big Jake
Title: Big Jake
Character: Jacob McCandles
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
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Title: V.I.P. Schaukel
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Selling of the Pentagon
Title: The Selling of the Pentagon
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 23, 1971
Type: Movie
The Selling of the Pentagon, was an important documentary aired in primetime on CBS on 23 February 1971. The aim of this film, produced by Peter Davis, was to examine the increasing utilization and cost to the taxpayers of public relations activities by the military-industrial complex in order to shape public opinion in favor of the military.
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Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Title: Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed off or not, to Wayne about how to cultivate a special walk to make oneself a star in movies and to himself as he attempts to rehearse his tiny part and while doing so is caught in the frame of a setup for another scene and chastised by Wayne. Wayne calls Plimpton "Pimpleton" throughout this special.
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Chisum
Title: Chisum
Character: John Simpson Chisum
Released: July 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
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Raquel!
Title: Raquel!
Character: Self
Released: April 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Raquel! was an April 26, 1970 CBS television special starring Raquel Welch, Tom Jones, Bob Hope and John Wayne executive produced, directed and choreographed by David Winters produced by Winters' company Winters-Rosen for CBS-TV, originally co-sponsored by Coca-Cola and Motorola. On the day of the premiere, the show received a 51% share on the National ARB Ratings and an impressive Overnight New York Nielsen Rating of 58% share.
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Rio Lobo
Title: Rio Lobo
Character: Colonel Cord McNally
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Title: Swing Out, Sweet Land
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
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No Substitute for Victory
Title: No Substitute for Victory
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
John Wayne hosts this video which was produced during the Vietnam War when the Communist threat was at its height.
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The Undefeated
Title: The Undefeated
Character: Colonel John Henry Thomas
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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True Grit
Title: True Grit
Character: Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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Title: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: TV
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.
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Hellfighters
Title: Hellfighters
Character: Chance Buckman
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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The Green Berets
Title: The Green Berets
Character: Colonel Mike Kirby
Released: July 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
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The War Wagon
Title: The War Wagon
Character: Taw Jackson
Released: May 26, 1967
Type: Movie
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
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Title: Dateline: Hollywood
Released: April 3, 1967
Type: TV
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A Nation Builds Under Fire
Title: A Nation Builds Under Fire
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A U. S. Government film promoting America’s presence and effectiveness in the Vietnam War.
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El Dorado
Title: El Dorado
Character: Cole Thornton
Released: December 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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The Victory Squad
Title: The Victory Squad
Character: Himself - Host
Released: November 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A promotional film about the U.S. Republican party drafting volunteers on Election Day, encouraging their fellow party members to vote and helping them get to their polling place.
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Cast a Giant Shadow
Title: Cast a Giant Shadow
Character: Gen. Mike Randolph
Released: March 30, 1966
Type: Movie
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Title: The Sons of Katie Elder
Character: John Elder
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Title: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Character: Centurion at crucifixion
Released: April 9, 1965
Type: Movie
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
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In Harm's Way
Title: In Harm's Way
Character: Capt. Rockwell Torrey
Released: April 6, 1965
Type: Movie
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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Circus World
Title: Circus World
Character: Matt Masters
Released: June 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
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Choice
Title: Choice
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The notorious political campaign film produced for the 1964 United States presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.
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McLintock!
Title: McLintock!
Character: George Washington McLintock
Released: November 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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Title: Hollywood and the Stars
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 1963
Type: TV
Each 30 minute show concentrated on a Hollywood genre, film or legendary star.
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Donovan's Reef
Title: Donovan's Reef
Character: Michael "Guns" Donovan
Released: June 12, 1963
Type: Movie
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Flashing Spikes
Title: Flashing Spikes
Character: Marine Sergeant
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phenom. The younger player is at first tainted by his association with the oldtimer, but eventually the truth about the scandal is revealed.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: John Wayne
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 Beverly Hillbillies
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Hatari!
Title: Hatari!
Character: Sean Mercer
Released: June 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Tom Doniphon
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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The Comancheros
Title: The Comancheros
Character: Jake Cutter
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: Alcoa Premiere
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: TV
Alcoa Premiere is an American anthology drama series that aired from October 1961 to July 1963 on ABC. The series was hosted by Fred Astaire, directed by Norman Lloyd and executive produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
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The 10 from Texas
Title: The 10 from Texas
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Challenge of Ideas
Title: The Challenge of Ideas
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
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The Colter Craven Story:
Title: The Colter Craven Story:
Released: November 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be wrong after Major Adams gives him a history lesson.
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North to Alaska
Title: North to Alaska
Character: Sam McCord
Released: November 7, 1960
Type: Movie
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
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The Alamo
Title: The Alamo
Character: Col. Davy Crockett
Released: October 23, 1960
Type: Movie
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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The Horse Soldiers
Title: The Horse Soldiers
Character: Col John Marlowe
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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Rio Bravo
Title: Rio Bravo
Character: John Chance
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
Title: The Barbarian and the Geisha
Character: Townsend Harris
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
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I Married a Woman
Title: I Married a Woman
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
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Legend of the Lost
Title: Legend of the Lost
Character: Joe January
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
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Jet Pilot
Title: Jet Pilot
Character: Col. Jim Shannon
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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The Wings of Eagles
Title: The Wings of Eagles
Character: Frank W. 'Spig' Wead
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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The Searchers
Title: The Searchers
Character: Ethan Edwards
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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The Conqueror
Title: The Conqueror
Character: Temujin, later Genghis Khan
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Rookie of the Year
Title: Rookie of the Year
Character: Mike Cronin
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Mike Cronin
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Blood Alley
Title: Blood Alley
Character: Capt. Tom Wilder
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is "shanghaied" into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
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Title: Casablanca
Released: September 27, 1955
Type: TV
This was the first attempt by Warner Brothers to make the movie classic into a series. It was part of a revolving group of shows that included Kings Row on a show called Warner Brothers Presents.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Self - Host, Introduction to the Series
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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The Sea Chase
Title: The Sea Chase
Character: Captain Karl Ehrlich
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
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Title: Producers' Showcase
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: TV
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
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The High and the Mighty
Title: The High and the Mighty
Character: Dan Roman
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Hondo
Title: Hondo
Character: Hondo Lane
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
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Three Lives
Title: Three Lives
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 1953
Type: Movie
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Captain Dooley
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Stephen Aloysius Williams
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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You're the Star
Title: You're the Star
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Promotional short for the Red Cross.
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Big Jim McLain
Title: Big Jim McLain
Character: Jim McLain
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
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The Quiet Man
Title: The Quiet Man
Character: Sean Thornton
Released: July 21, 1952
Type: Movie
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: John Wayne
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Flying Leathernecks
Title: Flying Leathernecks
Character: Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.
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The Screen Director
Title: The Screen Director
Character: Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
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Operation Pacific
Title: Operation Pacific
Character: Duke E. Gifford
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
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Rio Grande
Title: Rio Grande
Character: Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: John Wayne
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self - Cameo
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Title: Sands of Iwo Jima
Character: Sgt. John M. Stryker
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Title: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Character: Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles
Released: October 22, 1949
Type: Movie
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Title: The Fighting Kentuckian
Character: John Breen
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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3 Godfathers
Title: 3 Godfathers
Character: Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
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Wake of the Red Witch
Title: Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Capt. Ralls
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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Red River
Title: Red River
Character: Thomas Dunson
Released: August 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Capt. Kirby York
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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Tycoon
Title: Tycoon
Character: Johnny Munroe
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Quirt Evans
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Tom Wayne
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Rusty Thomas
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: John Devlin
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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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Lt. (J.G.) 'Rusty' Ryan
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Back to Bataan
Title: Back to Bataan
Character: Colonel Joseph Madden
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Duke Fergus
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Tall in the Saddle
Title: Tall in the Saddle
Character: Rocklin
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
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Memo for Joe
Title: Memo for Joe
Character: Self
Released: August 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
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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In Old Oklahoma
Title: In Old Oklahoma
Character: Daniel F Somers
Released: December 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Duke Hudkins
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Pat Talbot
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Pittsburgh
Title: Pittsburgh
Character: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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Flying Tigers
Title: Flying Tigers
Character: Jim Gordon
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Glennister
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Tom Craig
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Reap the Wild Wind
Title: Reap the Wild Wind
Character: Captain Jack Stuart
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Lady for a Night
Title: Lady for a Night
Character: Jackson Morgan
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Young Matt Matthews
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: John Reynolds
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Lynn Hollister
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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The Long Voyage Home
Title: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Ole Olsen
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Dan
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: John Phillips
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Bob Seton
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Allegheny Uprising
Title: Allegheny Uprising
Character: Jim Smith
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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New Frontier
Title: New Frontier
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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Wyoming Outlaw
Title: Wyoming Outlaw
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: June 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Three Texas Steers
Title: Three Texas Steers
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: The Ringo Kid
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Red River Range
Title: Red River Range
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
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Santa Fe Stampede
Title: Santa Fe Stampede
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered. Stony is accused.
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Overland Stage Raiders
Title: Overland Stage Raiders
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
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Pals of the Saddle
Title: Pals of the Saddle
Character: Stony Brooke
Released: August 28, 1938
Type: Movie
The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.
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Born to the West
Title: Born to the West
Character: Dare Rudd
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.
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Adventure's End
Title: Adventure's End
Character: Duke Slade
Released: December 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
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Idol of the Crowds
Title: Idol of the Crowds
Character: Johnny Hanson
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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I Cover the War!
Title: I Cover the War!
Character: Bob Adams
Released: July 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Biff Smith
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Pat Glendon
Released: November 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Bob Randall
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Winds of the Wasteland
Title: Winds of the Wasteland
Character: John Blair
Released: July 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
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The Stagecoach Race
Title: The Stagecoach Race
Character: John Blair
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Winds of the Wasteland', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Winds of the Wasteland' down to a 22 minute short version. The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
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The Lonely Trail
Title: The Lonely Trail
Character: Captain John Ashley
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
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King of the Pecos
Title: King of the Pecos
Character: John Clayborn
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.
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The Lawless Nineties
Title: The Lawless Nineties
Character: John Tipton
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Capt John Delmont
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
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Lawless Range
Title: Lawless Range
Character: John Middleton
Released: November 4, 1935
Type: Movie
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: John Dawson
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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Texas Terror
Title: Texas Terror
Character: John Higgins
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
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Guns Along The Trail
Title: Guns Along The Trail
Character: John Wyatt
Released: October 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A government agent goes undercover in a traveling medicine show to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. A John Wayne classic in Vibrant Color! *Colorized and re-titled version of "Paradise Canyon" by Legend Films in 2007.
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Westward Ho
Title: Westward Ho
Character: John Wyatt
Released: August 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw gangs. Meanwhile, John is ever on the lookout for the gang that murdered his parents As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon When Ballard and his men attack the Wyatt wagon train, they kill all except two young brothers. Twelve years later one brother John has organized a vigilante group. The other brother Jim is now part of Ballard's gang and the two are destined to meet again
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Paradise Canyon
Title: Paradise Canyon
Character: John Wyatt
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's medicine show they arrive in the town where Curly Joe, who once framed Carter, resides.
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The Dawn Rider
Title: The Dawn Rider
Character: John Mason
Released: June 20, 1935
Type: Movie
When John Mason's father is killed, John is wounded. Attracted to his nurse Alice, a conflict arises between him and his friend Ben who plans to marry Alice. John later finds the killer of his father but goes to face him not knowing Ben has removed the bullets from his gun.
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Avenging Angel
Title: Avenging Angel
Character: John Mason
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Dawn Rider', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'The Dawn Rider' down to a 22 minute short version.
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The Desert Trail
Title: The Desert Trail
Character: John Scott / John Jones
Released: April 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
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Rainbow Valley
Title: Rainbow Valley
Character: John Martin
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Title: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
Character: Chris Morrell
Released: December 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
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The Lawless Frontier
Title: The Lawless Frontier
Character: John Tobin
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill Dusty and kidnap Ruby. Saving the two, he goes after Zanti. He catches him but Zanti escapes the Sheriff's handcuff's and this time Tobin has to chase him into the desert.
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The Trail Beyond
Title: The Trail Beyond
Character: Rod Drew
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
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The Star Packer
Title: The Star Packer
Character: U.S. Marshal John Travers
Released: July 30, 1934
Type: Movie
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
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Randy Rides Alone
Title: Randy Rides Alone
Character: Randy Bowers
Released: June 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the sheriff (who doesn't know Matt is really a criminal). Randy escapes with the help of the niece of the dead owner of the bar. Bowers ends up running from the sheriff, and ends up in the cave in which the bandits have their hide-out…
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Next Of Kin
Title: Next Of Kin
Character: Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'West of the Divide', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'West of the Divide' down to a 22 minute short version.
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Bandits of the Badlands
Title: Bandits of the Badlands
Character: John Carruthers
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Blue Steel', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Blue Steel' down to a 22 minute short version. Melgrove, the town's leading citizen, is intending to deviously buy the worthless town, which actually stands on top of a huge gold mine.
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The Shadow Gang
Title: The Shadow Gang
Character: U.S. Marshal John Travers
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'The Star Packer' down to a 22 minute short version. John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
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The Man from Utah
Title: The Man from Utah
Character: John Weston
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
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Blue Steel
Title: Blue Steel
Character: John Carruthers
Released: May 10, 1934
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
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West of the Divide
Title: West of the Divide
Character: Ted Hayden aka Gat Ganns
Released: February 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father.
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The Lucky Texan
Title: The Lucky Texan
Character: Jerry Mason
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
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Sagebrush Trail
Title: Sagebrush Trail
Character: John Brant
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shopgirl Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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Riders of Destiny
Title: Riders of Destiny
Character: Singin' Sandy Saunders
Released: October 10, 1933
Type: Movie
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
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The Man from Monterey
Title: The Man from Monterey
Character: John Holmes
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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His Private Secretary
Title: His Private Secretary
Character: Dick Wallace
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Smith
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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Somewhere in Sonora
Title: Somewhere in Sonora
Character: John Bishop
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
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Central Airport
Title: Central Airport
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Lt. Tom Wayne
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Telegraph Trail
Title: The Telegraph Trail
Character: John Trent
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
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Haunted Gold
Title: Haunted Gold
Character: John Mason
Released: December 17, 1932
Type: Movie
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
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The Big Stampede
Title: The Big Stampede
Character: Deputy Sheriff John Steele
Released: September 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Title: Ride Him, Cowboy
Character: John Drury
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Air Pilot
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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Lady and Gent
Title: Lady and Gent
Character: Buzz Kinney
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
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Two-Fisted Law
Title: Two-Fisted Law
Character: Duke
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.
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Texas Cyclone
Title: Texas Cyclone
Character: Steve Pickett
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Title: The Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Craig McCoy
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Emcee
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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The Range Feud
Title: The Range Feud
Character: Clint Turner
Released: October 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Dusty Rhodes
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Lt. Bob Denton
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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Three Girls Lost
Title: Three Girls Lost
Character: Gordon Wales
Released: April 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
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Girls Demand Excitement
Title: Girls Demand Excitement
Character: Peter Brooks
Released: February 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
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The Big Trail
Title: The Big Trail
Character: Breck Coleman
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Rough Romance
Title: Rough Romance
Character: Lumberjack
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Men Without Women
Title: Men Without Women
Character: Radioman on Surface (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
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Salute
Title: Salute
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Words and Music
Title: Words and Music
Character: Pete Donahue
Released: August 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
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The Black Watch
Title: The Black Watch
Character: Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
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Speakeasy
Title: Speakeasy
Character: Extra
Released: March 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Flood Extra (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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A Home Made Man
Title: A Home Made Man
Character: Man on Stool
Released: July 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
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Hangman's House
Title: Hangman's House
Character: Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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Four Sons
Title: Four Sons
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
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Mother Machree
Title: Mother Machree
Released: December 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
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The Drop Kick
Title: The Drop Kick
Character: Football Player / Extra in Stands
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Released: May 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
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The Draw-Back
Title: The Draw-Back
Character: Opposing Football Player
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
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The Great K&A Train Robbery
Title: The Great K&A Train Robbery
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang he enlists the help of the hobo DeLuxe Harry.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Yale Football Player (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Rodeo Racketeers
Title: Rodeo Racketeers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Originally released as The man from Utah in 1934 by Lone Star productions. Movie 1 of the Young Duke Series. John Wayne goes undercover as John Westin, a rodeo star, to rope a gang of rodeo racketeers.
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Claim Jumpers
Title: Claim Jumpers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Claim jumpers originally released as Lucky Texan in 1934 by Monogram Pictures Corp