Edmund Cobb

Edmund Cobb

Born: June 23, 1892
Died: August 15, 1974
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Movies for Edmund Cobb...

Title: Western von gestern
Character: 2. Bombenleger
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Johnny Reno
Title: Johnny Reno
Character: Townsman
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
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The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Townsman
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Tales of Terror
Title: Tales of Terror
Character: Driver ("Morella")
Released: July 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
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The Atomic Submarine
Title: The Atomic Submarine
Character: Passerby (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Submarine Seahawk
Title: Submarine Seahawk
Character: Officer
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Title: The Bonnie Parker Story
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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The Amazing Colossal Man
Title: The Amazing Colossal Man
Character: Dr. McDermott
Released: October 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.
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Motorcycle Gang
Title: Motorcycle Gang
Character: Attville Cafe Manager
Released: October 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.
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The Oklahoma Woman
Title: The Oklahoma Woman
Character: Deputy Sam
Released: June 15, 1956
Type: Movie
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
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Hidden Guns
Title: Hidden Guns
Character: Ben Williams
Released: January 30, 1956
Type: Movie
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
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Runaway Daughters
Title: Runaway Daughters
Character: Private Detective
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
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The Desperate Hours
Title: The Desperate Hours
Character: Mr. Walling
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Lay That Rifle Down
Title: Lay That Rifle Down
Character: Sheriff Cushing
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
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Timber Country Trouble
Title: Timber Country Trouble
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
A short feature western comprising two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, the episodes being "Lumber Camp Story" (4/21/1952) and "Boy And The Bandit" (5/5/1952).
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The Violent Men
Title: The Violent Men
Character: Anchor Rider (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Black Tuesday
Title: Black Tuesday
Character: Bank Safe Deposit Box Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
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Broken Lance
Title: Broken Lance
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
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The Egyptian
Title: The Egyptian
Character: Patient
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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The Raid
Title: The Raid
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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Man with the Steel Whip
Title: Man with the Steel Whip
Character: Lee, Buckboard Driver [Chs. 2, 3]
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Saloon owner Barnet wants the Indian reservation land on which he knows there is gold, and organizes a gang, aided by some renegade Indians, to raid and terrorize close-by settlers,hoping to arouse them to drive off the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall, accompanied by school teacher Nancy Cooper, sets out to defeat the plot. In order to win the loyalty of the innocent tribe members, Randall masquerades as a legendary friend of the Indians, El Latigo.
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River of No Return
Title: River of No Return
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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Calamity Jane
Title: Calamity Jane
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Title: Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Character: Warner
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
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Toughest Man in Arizona
Title: Toughest Man in Arizona
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Lafe Reiser
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Hellgate
Title: Hellgate
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
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Confidence Girl
Title: Confidence Girl
Character: Detective Lieutenant Cobb, with pipe
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Ed (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Title: Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Character: Turner
Released: July 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.
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Montana Desperado
Title: Montana Desperado
Character: Jim Berry
Released: June 17, 1951
Type: Movie
The story concerns a fierce struggle over water rights. Complicating the plot is the presence of a masked desperado who is systematically killing off local ranchers.
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Blazing Bullets
Title: Blazing Bullets
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Following his refusal to let his daughter Carol marry cowhand Bill Grant, rancher John Roberts is kidnapped, and Bill is hunted for the crime.
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Frisco Tornado
Title: Frisco Tornado
Character: 1st Stage Driver
Released: September 6, 1950
Type: Movie
U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance against outlaw activity, outlaws who work for the insurance salesmen.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Henchman Larry
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Desperadoes of the West
Title: Desperadoes of the West
Character: Bowers
Released: August 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Target Watcher (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Hills of Oklahoma
Title: Hills of Oklahoma
Character: Rancher Johnson
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman's association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.
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Comanche Territory
Title: Comanche Territory
Character: Ed
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
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The Arizona Cowboy
Title: The Arizona Cowboy
Character: Sheriff Fuller
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
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The Vanishing Westerner
Title: The Vanishing Westerner
Character: Mort
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.
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The Girl from San Lorenzo
Title: The Girl from San Lorenzo
Character: The Phoney Pancho
Released: February 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.
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Squadron of Doom
Title: Squadron of Doom
Character: Nicolai
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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San Antone Ambush
Title: San Antone Ambush
Character: Marshal Kennedy
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.
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The James Brothers of Missouri
Title: The James Brothers of Missouri
Character: The Sheriff [Chs. 6-8]
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of course, there's no room in the Wild West for reformed outlaws, and the duo inevitably find themselves caught up in showdowns and robberies.
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Take One False Step
Title: Take One False Step
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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The Wyoming Bandit
Title: The Wyoming Bandit
Character: Deputy Marshal
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking revenge for his son's murder, Dan enlists the help of Rocky Lane (Allan Lane), who poses as an outlaw to try to uncover the truth. When the duo manage to track down the killer, they find him armed to the teeth.
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The Daring Caballero
Title: The Daring Caballero
Character: Marshal J.B. Scott
Released: June 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an innocent man from hanging. Eventually, our heroes learn that a corrupt political machine is behind the killing. Leading lady Kippie Valez is cast as "herself," which must have meant more in 1949 than it does today. Unlike the subsequent TV series, Daring Caballero does not end with the leading actors reciting their standard mantra "Oh, Pancho! Oh, Cisco!"
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Challenge of the Range
Title: Challenge of the Range
Character: Henchman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
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Gun Law Justice
Title: Gun Law Justice
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely befriends Hank Carrdigan, a former outlaw who has served his sentence and wants to go straight. Jimmy, after clearing Hank of a wrongful shooting charge, helps him get a job as an express messenger. Hank drives off some bandits in an attempted hold-up, but recognizes his son Tom as one of the bandits. A later robbery is blamed on Hank but Jimmy and his sidekick Cannonball Taylor bring in the real culprits and clear Hank's name.
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Sheriff of Wichita
Title: Sheriff of Wichita
Character: U.S. Marshal James
Released: January 22, 1949
Type: Movie
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major Bishop, neither the money or Bishop have ever been found and Raymond was convicted of the theft. Now he is at the abandoned fort, an escaped convict with a letter, looking to find the truth about the robbery. Members of his old command are also there and Rocky shows up to return Raymond to prison.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Hidden Danger
Title: Hidden Danger
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny and Banty come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a gent named Carson.
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Movies Are Adventure
Title: Movies Are Adventure
Character: George (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Produced in association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of a twelve part series called The Industry Film Project, meant to inform the public about specific facets of production and industry life. It shows that the "magic seat" of a movie theater can transport the movie-goer to all types of adventures, such as the Oklahoma land rush; being rescued by a sheik in the Sahara Desert; watching a huge ape climb the Empire State Building; or experiencing a hurricane in the south Pacific. No matter what type of thrill your looking for, you'll find it on the big screen.
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The Golden Eye
Title: The Golden Eye
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
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The Return of Wildfire
Title: The Return of Wildfire
Character: Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue the fight. They are soon assisted by a passing drifter who ends up falling for one of them. In the end a gunfight between the good and bad guys ensues.
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The Street with No Name
Title: The Street with No Name
Character: Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1948
Type: Movie
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Title: Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Character: Stage Driver
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
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River Lady
Title: River Lady
Character: Rider
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
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Carson City Raiders
Title: Carson City Raiders
Character: Old Sheriff
Released: May 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his freight line. Meanwhile, Dave Starky (Harold Goodwin) is impersonating the outlaw Fargo Jack (Steve Darrell). But why? There's a lot of confusion in Carson City in this Western about hidden identities. Who is truly behind the gang of stagecoach robbers?
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Heart of Virginia
Title: Heart of Virginia
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
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The Bold Frontiersman
Title: The Bold Frontiersman
Character: Deputy Pete
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.
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G-Men Never Forget
Title: G-Men Never Forget
Character: R.J. Cook
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
An escaped criminal impersonates a Police Commissioner, causing no end of trouble to a determined Federal Agent.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Title: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Character: Lem
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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Jesse James Rides Again
Title: Jesse James Rides Again
Character: Wilkie
Released: August 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Jesse James wants to start a new life in a new location, but quickly finds himself wrapped-up in protecting townsfolk from the machinations of evil oilmen.
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Flashing Guns
Title: Flashing Guns
Character: Sheriff Ed Newman
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace with such entries as Flashing Guns. In this outing, Brown tries to save his pal Shelby (Raymond Hatton) from being thrown off his ranch by crooked banker Ainsworth (James E. Logan). To do this, our hero must prove that the banker is in cahoots with the local gambling boss (Douglas Evans).
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Title: Robin Hood Of Texas
Character: Deliveryman
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
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Oregon Trail Scouts
Title: Oregon Trail Scouts
Character: Henchman Jack
Released: May 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox.
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Land of the Lawless
Title: Land of the Lawless
Character: Hank
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty dealings in the town of Medicine Flats, Johnny learns that Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre), the owner of the Golden Spur Saloon, has been waging a war against local prospectors, one of whom is found murdered. Not appreciating Johnny's interference, Kate has her henchman Cameo (Tristram Coffin) take a shot at him and when that fails, hires a notorious gunslinger, the Cherokee Kid (I. Stanford Jolley).
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Law of the Canyon
Title: Law of the Canyon
Character: T.D. Wilson (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.
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Buffalo Bill Rides Again
Title: Buffalo Bill Rides Again
Character: Henchman Morgan
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in a proposed series. Arlen played the title role, here assigned by the army to quell an Indian attack on the powerless settlers. The Indians are accusing Tom Russell (John Dexter) of murdering a member of the tribe, an act, as Buffalo Bill discovers, actually committed by a gang of outlaws hired by investment company owner J.B. Jordon (Frank O'Connor). Buffalo Bill Rides Again was soundly defeated by a low budget and slipshod direction by the veteran Bernard B. Ray. Popular B-Western villain Ted Adams disappeared mysteriously halfway through the film, only to be replaced by Edmund Cobb. Jennifer Holt, the daughter of Arlen contemporary Jack Holt and by far the busiest B-Western heroine of the 1940s, had little to do other than letting herself be kidnapped by evil Gil Patric.
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Last Frontier Uprising
Title: Last Frontier Uprising
Character: Sheriff Hanlon
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself, but a federal agent, dispatched to Texas to buy horses on behalf of the government. Hale runs up against a vicious gang of horse thieves, including such veteran western hard cases as Roy Barcroft and Philip van Zandt. The romantic interest is in the dainty hands of Adrian Booth, who used to go by the name of Lorna Gray. Put together with the standard Republic efficiency, The Last Frontier Uprising benefits from the breathless direction of Lesley Selander.
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Son of Zorro
Title: Son of Zorro
Character: Stockton
Released: January 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
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Renegade Girl
Title: Renegade Girl
Character: Sergeant James
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.
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Stagecoach to Denver
Title: Stagecoach to Denver
Character: Henchman Duke
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax, Lambert has his stooge Sheriff put Red in jail.
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Santa Fe Uprising
Title: Santa Fe Uprising
Character: Madison Pike
Released: November 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwarted by Red. The latter is made town marshal, and when he gets too close to the truth and is making it too hot for the Crawford faction, Crawford has his henchman Luke kidnap Red's Indian friend Little Beaver.
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Rio Grande Raiders
Title: Rio Grande Raiders
Character: Frank Harding
Released: September 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson, ace driver for the Harding Stagecoach Line, persuades his boss Frank Harding (Edmund Cobb) to hire his brother, Jeff (Bob Steele), recently released from the penitentiary. Sunset isn't aware that Jeff owes his release to Marc Redmond (Tristram Coffin), owner of the rival line, and that Redmond is forcing Jeff to give him advance information when the Harding stages are carrying valuable shipments, so that his henchmen can rob the stage and force Harding out of business.
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Rustler's Round-up
Title: Rustler's Round-up
Character: Victor Todd
Released: August 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A cowboy sets out to break up a gang of rustlers.
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Red River Renegades
Title: Red River Renegades
Character: Mark Webster
Released: July 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Postal Inspectors Carson and Underwood have been sent to investigate a series of robberies where both the driver and stagecoach disappear. They team up with Pinkerton agent Bennett who has found some of the stolen money in the possession of Stevens.
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The El Paso Kid
Title: The El Paso Kid
Character: Sheriff Frank Stoner
Released: May 22, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. He and the wounded outlaw leave and try to steal a stagecoach as their ex-gang robs it. The sheriff's daughter observes the incident. Believing that the two outlaws were trying to save the stage, she takes them into town where the "heroes" are given jobs working for the stage.
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Sun Valley Cyclone
Title: Sun Valley Cyclone
Character: Luce
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.
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Galloping Thunder
Title: Galloping Thunder
Character: Henchman Barstow (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve poses as a vicious gunslinger named Buck McCloud to work his way into the gang, and then becomes the Durango Kid to disrupt the activities he learns about. Jud Temple is the loyal fiancée of town banker Grat Hanlon who turns out to be the brain-trust behind the gang.
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Song of Arizona
Title: Song of Arizona
Character: Sheriff Jim Clark
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ranch for homeless boys run by Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), attracts the attention his father's rowdy gang, who want to claim the boy's inheritance for themselves
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Roaring Rangers
Title: Roaring Rangers
Character: Taggart (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Jeff Connor of Powder River cannot stop the crime wave, his young son, Larry, writes to the Durango Kid for aid. Taggart, the saloon owner, is the secret head of the outlaws, while Connor's brother Bill is in cahoots with him. Steve Randall, the Durango Kid, and his pal, Smiley Butterbean, arrive in time to stop a stagecoach holdup, and Steve is made a deputy sheriff. Taggart has one of his men, Slade, pose as the Durango Kid and while he is speaking to the townspeople, the rest of the outlaw gang pillages the town, and this somewhat damages the Durango Kid in the eyes of Larry and his sister Doris. Steve suggests that Sheriff Connor visit the government about a railroad project, and Taggart instructs Slade and the gang leader to kill Connor on his trip back.
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Hiss and Yell
Title: Hiss and Yell
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
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Days of Buffalo Bill
Title: Days of Buffalo Bill
Character: Banker Jacob Lewis
Released: February 2, 1946
Type: Movie
In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that he killed his opponent. He is so wracked with guilt that he travels to the ranch of the dead man's sister, gives himself a new name and begins helping her. Rustlers come; he stops them. Trouble ensues after she learns his true identity. A scuffle ensues. She wings him with a gun; he disarms her. Later she hears the real murderer bragging about his crime during a fight with the hero.
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The Scarlet Horseman
Title: The Scarlet Horseman
Character: Kyle
Released: January 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
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The Cherokee Flash
Title: The Cherokee Flash
Character: Jones
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Lawyer Butler, wanting Jeff Carson's ranch, has the Sheriff and his gang frame the bank holdup on him. Then they kill a witness that could free Carson and blame the murder on his son Sunset. But Sunset escapes, frees his father, and then sets a trap to catch the real killers.
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Frontier Feud
Title: Frontier Feud
Character: Homesteader Nat
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada and his grizzled sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) are US marshals posing as drifters. Rancher Joe (Dennis Moore) is accused of a series of murders, but Nevada and Sandy manage to prove that another man is the guilty party.
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Sunset in El Dorado
Title: Sunset in El Dorado
Character: Prospector
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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Blazing the Western Trail
Title: Blazing the Western Trail
Character: Sheriff Turner
Released: September 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it, Brent has him killed. Jeff Waring arrives and takes his uncle's job. He soon learns what's happening and the Durango Kid goes into action. This keeps Halliday going and gives them a chance to get the mail contract by winning the stagecoach race.
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Man from Oklahoma
Title: Man from Oklahoma
Character: Henchman Ferguson
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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Bad Men of the Border
Title: Bad Men of the Border
Character: Roy
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).
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Renegades of the Rio Grande
Title: Renegades of the Rio Grande
Character: Henchman Karl Holbrook
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A cowboy who was trying to return the loot from a robbery finds hmself suspected of the crime.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Townsman
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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The Phantom Speaks
Title: The Phantom Speaks
Character: Execution Official (Uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Rough Ridin' Justice
Title: Rough Ridin' Justice
Character: Harris (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Steve Holden and his men successfully raid a wagon train. Among the local ranchers who decide to stop the raiding are Virgil Trent and his daughter Gail. At a meeting, Sidney Padgett, Cannonball and other townspeople conclude that someone is tipping the gang off on important shipments. Trent volunteers to contact the outlaws. He meets Steve and persuades him to cross to the side of the law and protect the ranchers. Steve soon suspects Padgett and tricks him into revealing his identity as the secret leader of the bandits, and in a furious battle between Steve's men and the outlaws, the former win.
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The Navajo Trail
Title: The Navajo Trail
Character: Jack Farr
Released: January 15, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins are working undercover to capture a gang stealing horses from the Navajos, and to capture the killer of a Ranger. Nevada poses as an outlaw to get in with the gang and find the leader, while Sandy pretends to be a drunken old horse thief that has knowledge of where the Navajos have hidden their ponies.
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Song of the Range
Title: Song of the Range
Character: Thomas 'Tom' Manning
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Finding Dale's wallet, Denny returns it just as two men shoot each other with one dying and one escaping. Dale blames Denny for the murder and Lasses has to pose as the Sheriff to free him. Trailing the wounded man they learn he and Dale are Government Agents. Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses now join up with Dale and soon find themselves involved in a gold bullion smuggling racket.
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House of Frankenstein
Title: House of Frankenstein
Character: Coachman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Juror
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Police Detective Cahan (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Law of the Valley
Title: Law of the Valley
Character: Dan Stanton
Released: November 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Dan Stanton and Condon are foreclosing on a group of ranchers in order to gain a land-monopoly. They have one of the ranchers, whose property supplies the others with water, killed. Ann Jennings, niece of the rancher, sends for U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins, who organize the ranchers who take over the dead man's property and blast the dam releasing needed water to all the ranchers. Nevada and Sandy, aided by the sheriff, round up Stanton, Condon and their gang members.
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The Old Texas Trail
Title: The Old Texas Trail
Character: Joe Gardner, posing as Jim Wiley
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line.
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West of the Rio Grande
Title: West of the Rio Grande
Character: Henchman Curly
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Two-fisted cowboys fight for law and order in their encounters with outlaws.
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Raiders of Ghost City
Title: Raiders of Ghost City
Character: Henchman Rawhide
Released: July 25, 1944
Type: Movie
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
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Call of the Rockies
Title: Call of the Rockies
Character: Workman
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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The Last Horseman
Title: The Last Horseman
Character: Waco posing as Bill Rogan (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
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The Great Alaskan Mystery
Title: The Great Alaskan Mystery
Character: Miner Worker Preparing Ambush
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
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Law Men
Title: Law Men
Character: Slade
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
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Outlaws of Santa Fe
Title: Outlaws of Santa Fe
Character: Marshal Billings
Released: April 4, 1944
Type: Movie
After bank robber Bob Hackett (Don "Red" Barry) learns that his real father was a marshal, he reforms and travels with his pal Buckshot (Wally Vernon) to Santa Fe, where his father was killed. When he stands up to rustlers working for Henry Jackson (Herbert Heyes), Hackett is made the new marshal.
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Sundown Valley
Title: Sundown Valley
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1944
Type: Movie
In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Title: Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Character: Ghost of Captain Kidd
Released: March 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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Raiders of the Border
Title: Raiders of the Border
Character: McGee
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton return to the screen as saddle pals Nevada and Sandy in Monogram's Pals of the Border. In this one, our heroes are US marshals, hot on the trail of cattle rustlers.
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California Joe
Title: California Joe
Character: Henchman
Released: December 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Grogan (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.
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The Texas Kid
Title: The Texas Kid
Character: Scully
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Texas Kid is part of the gang and Sandy thinks he is bad but Nevada knows him and thinks he may be good.
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Mystery Broadcast
Title: Mystery Broadcast
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Silver City Raiders
Title: Silver City Raiders
Character: Henchman Ringo
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
With Silver City Raiders, perennial western sidekick Russell Hayden launched his own starring series. Hayden plays "Lucky", the same character he'd previously essayed in the Hopalong Cassidy films. This time around, Lucky tries to prove that crooked land baron Dawson (Paul Sutton) doesn't have prior claim on the entire territory. When legal methods prove only moderately effective, Lucky and his chums use more direct methods to drive Dawson and his ilk out of town.
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Outlaws of Stampede Pass
Title: Outlaws of Stampede Pass
Character: Henchman Hank
Released: October 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Evans (Jon Dawson), nephew of U.S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), has just trailed his cattle to Yucca City, where he intends to sell to Ben Crowley (Harry Woods), owner of practically everything in town.Tom loses his money in a crooked game ran by Crowley. "Nevada Jack" McKenzie (Johnny Mack Brown), a U.S. Marshal working undercover, watches the game and secures one of the "fixed" decks of cards. Later, Tom discovers Crowley's men rustling his cattle and is shot. Nevada finds him severely wounded and hides him with Jeff Lewis (Sam Flint) and his daughter Mary (Ellen Hall). Sandy, posing as a dentist, arrives in town after a wire from Nevada. The latter confronts Crowley with the crooked deck and also with the fact that Tom is still alive, and demands a partnership from Crowley. When Crowley learns that Lewis is hiding Tom, he decides to have both Tom and Nevada killed.
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Oklahoma Outlaws
Title: Oklahoma Outlaws
Character: Doolin (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa.
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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: 1st Workman
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Six Gun Gospel
Title: Six Gun Gospel
Character: Henchman Waco
Released: August 3, 1943
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks through town and Benton is attempting to secure the land by scaring off the settlers.
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The Stranger From Pecos
Title: The Stranger From Pecos
Character: Bert Salem
Released: July 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Heckler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Saddles and Sagebrush
Title: Saddles and Sagebrush
Character: Henchman Cutter
Released: April 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his henchmen, led by Ace Barco; when Lafe Martin objects, the outlaws shoot him down. Lucky Randall promises Ann Martin he will avenge her wounded father. He sets up headquarters on the Martin ranch and sends for Bob Merritt and his men, the Texas Playboys (Jesse Ashlock, Leon McAuliffe, Cotton Thompson, Junior Barnard and Luke Wills). Krag organizes his remaining men for an attack on the ranch. Lucky's men get the upper hand but Krag escapes with Ann as his hostage.
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The Ghost Rider
Title: The Ghost Rider
Character: Henchman Zach Saddler
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton that replaced the Rough Riders series following the death of Buck Jones in the Boston night club fire. Though the next three years featured Brown (as Nevada Jack McKenzie) and Hatton (in his Sandy Hopkins role from the Rough Riders series) as undercover marshals in some form or another, this initial entry had Brown as a lone rider seeking vengeance and he and Hatton's characters were unknown to each other through most of the film. Hopkins offer McKenzie a marshal's job at the end of the film, which the Brown character declined and rode off alone on his quest. This quest didn't take long as by the next film in the series Nevada Jack McKenzie was a full-fledged U. S. Marshal.
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Bill Lanning
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Detective
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: Process Server (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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The Old Chisholm Trail
Title: The Old Chisholm Trail
Character: Joe Rankin
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Officer Riley (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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Riding Through Nevada
Title: Riding Through Nevada
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Riding Through Nevada is a western starring Charles Starrett
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The Lone Prairie
Title: The Lone Prairie
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Title: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Character: Lieutenant Matthews
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the USA.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Reporter Carrying Papers (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: Officer Brody
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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The Cyclone Kid
Title: The Cyclone Kid
Character: Rancher Carson
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.
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The Devil's Trail
Title: The Devil's Trail
Character: Henchman Sid Howland
Released: May 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Devil's Trail was based on a story with the more intriguing title "The Town in Hell's Backyard."
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Henchman Stoner
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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Alias Boston Blackie
Title: Alias Boston Blackie
Character: Police Dispatcher Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Heart of the Rio Grande
Title: Heart of the Rio Grande
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Stage Line Agent
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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The Lone Star Vigilantes
Title: The Lone Star Vigilantes
Character: Sergeant Charley Cobb
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin and Cannonball find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe, a bush-league dictator with his own police force. In true Hitlerian fashion, Monroe extorts huge sums of money from the populace, terrorizing them into silence. Our three heroes set about to put an end to Monroe's regime, with time out for Tex Ritter's musical interludes.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Police Guard at Chandler's Gate
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Stagecoach Guard
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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The Officer and the Lady
Title: The Officer and the Lady
Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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Tonto Basin Outlaws
Title: Tonto Basin Outlaws
Character: Henchman Jim Stark
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Rancher Blaire
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Prairie Stranger
Title: Prairie Stranger
Character: Dr. Westridge
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
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Man from Montana
Title: Man from Montana
Character: Dakota, Thompson Ranch Foreman
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Title: I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Character: Quarry Guard
Released: August 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Henchman Lance
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Riders of Death Valley
Title: Riders of Death Valley
Character: Salty
Released: July 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
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The Medico of Painted Springs
Title: The Medico of Painted Springs
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town, Dr. Monroe finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
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Hands Across the Rockies
Title: Hands Across the Rockies
Character: Ranger
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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The Return of Daniel Boone
Title: The Return of Daniel Boone
Character: Henderson
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The scout's grandson foils land-grabbers; his sidekick flirts with twins.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Inquirer Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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North from the Lone Star
Title: North from the Lone Star
Character: Dusty Daggett
Released: March 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gunfighter survives his encounter with the South Dakota hellhole, where he arrives to aid beleaguered livery stable owner Clint Wilson (Richard Fiske) and his sister, Madge (Dorothy Fay), in their battle against self-appointed town czar "Flash" Kirby (Arthur Loft). But before he gets that far, there is a little matter of proving Kirby guilty of wrongdoing and to achieve that, Wild Bill earns the enmity of both the Wilsons.
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Back in the Saddle
Title: Back in the Saddle
Character: Rancher Williams
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Cop In Charge of Vault Opening
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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Across the Sierras
Title: Across the Sierras
Character: Mac Fawcett
Released: February 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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Wyoming Wildcat
Title: Wyoming Wildcat
Character: Duke Edwards aka Sam Collins
Released: January 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted man once again.
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The Wildcat of Tucson
Title: The Wildcat of Tucson
Character: Seth Harper
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with attempted murder when the other man drew first. Judge Barlow put him there and Bill gets the Judge to confess. Bill learns that Rance McKee is behind all the trouble and he forces the Judge into the decisions he wants. So Bill heads out by himself to face McKee in the showdown.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Rider
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Pony Post
Title: Pony Post
Character: George Barber
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan. Atkins now gets the Richard brothers to raid one of the relay stations and they kill Norma's father. Cal sees that the horse of one of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Stevens / Agent 4-X / Thug Pilot
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Prairie Schooners
Title: Prairie Schooners
Character: Blacksmith Rusty
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want any more settlers on their land.
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Melody Ranch
Title: Melody Ranch
Character: Autry Voter Complaining to Pop
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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How High Is Up?
Title: How High Is Up?
Character: Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Dan Steele
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Maddox
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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One Man's Law
Title: One Man's Law
Character: Red Mathews
Released: June 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Harmon (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Juror #3
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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Blazing Six Shooters
Title: Blazing Six Shooters
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Title: The Lone Wolf Strikes
Character: Cop in Cellar
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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West of Carson City
Title: West of Carson City
Character: Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Zorro's Fighting Legion
Title: Zorro's Fighting Legion
Character: Manuel Gonzalez
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
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The Stranger from Texas
Title: The Stranger from Texas
Character: Henchman Carver
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Senator Gower (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Riders of Black River
Title: Riders of Black River
Character: Colt Foster - Henchman
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
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Outpost of the Mounties
Title: Outpost of the Mounties
Character: Burke
Released: September 12, 1939
Type: Movie
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader whose price mark-ups are beginning to hurt the community. They fight so frequently that when the avaricious proprietor is killed, the young man becomes the prime suspect.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Lt. Reynolds
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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The Man from Sundown
Title: The Man from Sundown
Character: Henchman Roper
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
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Western Caravans
Title: Western Caravans
Character: Henchman Tex
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the settlers. Kohler re-ignites the feud by making settler Winters appear to be a rustler and then by killing Winter's son. Once more the two sides appear headed for a war and Jim is caught in the middle.
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Oil Field Foreman
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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Blue Montana Skies
Title: Blue Montana Skies
Character: Joe Brennan
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border.
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North of the Yukon
Title: North of the Yukon
Character: RCMP Cpl. Hawley
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Pool Hall Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Detective with Note (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Army Sergeant
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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West of the Santa Fe
Title: West of the Santa Fe
Character: Henchman Barlow
Released: October 2, 1938
Type: Movie
US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His reasons are partly personal: Conway (Edward LeSaint), the cattle-baron father of Lawlor's sweetheart Madge (Meredith), has been murdered by Taylor's minions.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Cop at Drug Store (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Colorado Trail
Title: Colorado Trail
Character: Cameron
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
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I'm from the City
Title: I'm from the City
Character: Red, Ranch Hand
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Henchman Ellis
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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Condemned Women
Title: Condemned Women
Character: Detective
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Miner
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Sergeant Murphy
Title: Sergeant Murphy
Character: Gruff's Adjutant
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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Wild Horse Rodeo
Title: Wild Horse Rodeo
Character: Hank Bain
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A champion rodeo rider returns home to track down a legendary wild horse called "Cyclone."
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Title: Outlaws of the Prairie
Character: Jed Stevens (as Eddie Cobb)
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of gold-shipment robberies. So does heroine Judy Garfield (Iris Meredith), whose stage transport business faces foreclosure if the holdups continue. It comes as no surprise that the crimes are being orchestrated by the very people who want to force Judy out of business.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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Murder in Greenwich Village
Title: Murder in Greenwich Village
Character: City Cop
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
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The Game That Kills
Title: The Game That Kills
Character: Policeman
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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Empty Holsters
Title: Empty Holsters
Character: Sheriff Cal Hardin
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Deputy Jim
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Smoke Tree Range
Title: Smoke Tree Range
Character: Sandy
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A cowboy aids an orphaned girl whose cattle are being rustled by an outlaw gang.
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Border Cafe
Title: Border Cafe
Character: Chuck (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
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The Cherokee Strip
Title: The Cherokee Strip
Character: Link Carter
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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You Can't Buy Luck
Title: You Can't Buy Luck
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Land Beyond the Law
Title: Land Beyond the Law
Character: Mason
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Slego
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Roy Banton
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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The Sunday Round-Up
Title: The Sunday Round-Up
Character: Jack Higgins
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The small church, pastored by Ted Burke, in a western town is struggling to stay alive as all the men gather at Jack Higgins' Mustang Saloon every Sunday. Burke decides to ask Higgins to close his business on Sunday, but Higgins only concern is to find a baritone to sing in the saloon's quartet, and has his henchies toss Ted out into the street. Ted decides to fight fire with fire, so he gathers up the down-and-out vaudeville act of Chase & Chase (who don't take long to show why they are down and out) and knife-thrower Steve Clemente, and a dozen or so western musicians from Gower Gulch as the before-the-sermon at his tabernacle. Higgins sends his rowdies over to bust up the Sunday morning competition.
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The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Wally
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Red Harrity (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Darkest Africa
Title: Darkest Africa
Character: Craddock
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Pete
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Bulldog Courage
Title: Bulldog Courage
Character: Cal Jepson
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
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The Cheyenne Tornado
Title: The Cheyenne Tornado
Character: Pete Lang
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy steps in when cattlemen try to force a sheepherder off the range.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Cop
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Brakeman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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Cappy Ricks Returns
Title: Cappy Ricks Returns
Character: Thug (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Title: The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Character: Jones
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.
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Danger Trails
Title: Danger Trails
Character: Hank Wilson (as Eddie Cobb)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A football star grown up in the East goes West in order to meet his father. He discovers that his parent and his three half-brothers are now notorious outlaws .
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Lightning Triggers
Title: Lightning Triggers
Character: Blackie (as Ed Cobb)
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Reb Russell (Reb Russell), undercover agent for the Cattleman's Protective Association, goes into the stronghold hideout of rustler chief Bull Thompson (Fred Kohler) posing as an outlaw. He falls in love with Marion, Bull's step-daughter. Juan (Dick Botiller), a gang member once jailed by Reb, reveals Reb's true identity, but he will be given his and Marion's freedom to leavy the valley if he can beat Thompson in a fight. He does, but Butch Greer (Jack Rockwell), a gang member trying to take over from Thompson leads the gang after the pair, after first revealing to Thompson that Reb is Thompson's own son, whom he last saw as a baby when Thompson, then known as Big Bill Russell,was forced to flee the law. Thompson and loyal gang member Blackie (Edmund Cobb), who was once helped by Reb, go after the gang in an effort to help Reb and Marion escape.
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Riding Wild
Title: Riding Wild
Character: John Jones (as Eddie Cobb)
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
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Rustler's Paradise
Title: Rustler's Paradise
Character: Larry Martin
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Cheyenne joins El Diablo's gang looking for his long time missing wife and daughter. After saving Romero from the gang he returns to get Connie who he now realizes is his daughter. Captured, he escapes with Connie and they return to Romero's just ahead of El diablo's attacking gang.
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The Miracle Rider
Title: The Miracle Rider
Character: Vining
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Mercenary Scout (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Tracy Rides
Title: Tracy Rides
Character: Ned Hampton
Released: February 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded and, with his dying breath, accuses Ned Hampton, brother of the girl to whom Tom is engaged, of having shot him in the back.
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Arizona Bad Man
Title: Arizona Bad Man
Character: Sonny Karns - Gunman
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
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Rustlers of Red Dog
Title: Rustlers of Red Dog
Character: Henchman Buck [Chs. 1-2, 6-9, 11-12]
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
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The Law of the Wild
Title: The Law of the Wild
Character: Henchman Jim Luger
Released: September 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. Meantime, Frank Nolan, who has falsely accused John, sets out to steal Rex for himself.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Johnny Snow
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Smoking Guns
Title: Smoking Guns
Character: Henchman
Released: June 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
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The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: Kent
Released: April 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Detective
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Electrician (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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The Rawhide Terror
Title: The Rawhide Terror
Character: Al - Sheriff
Released: March 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens. Everyone is after the Rawhide Terror and the two brothers are destined to meet again.
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Pirate Treasure
Title: Pirate Treasure
Character: Bert
Released: January 29, 1934
Type: Movie
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Cowhand Scotty
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Deadwood Pass
Title: Deadwood Pass
Character: 'Mileaway' Thomas
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
The Hawk has broken out of prison and the Sheriff and Sorrenson have a plan to have Whitlock pose as the Hawk, infiltrate the gang, and recover the stolen bonds. All goes well until The Chief who knows the real Hawk arrives.
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Kiss of Araby
Title: Kiss of Araby
Character: Taleb
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.
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The Lost Special
Title: The Lost Special
Character: Spike
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Bill, Harold's Classmate (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Come On, Tarzan
Title: Come On, Tarzan
Character: Injun - Cowhand
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Title: Ride Him, Cowboy
Character: Bob Webb (uncredited)
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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Heroes of the West
Title: Heroes of the West
Character: Bart Eaton
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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Tangled Fortunes
Title: Tangled Fortunes
Character: Buck Logan
Released: March 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
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Human Targets
Title: Human Targets
Character: Remsden
Released: January 10, 1932
Type: Movie
The Dale's need money for their sick mother and Bart Travis, having found gold, says he will provide it. Duke Remsden learns of the strike and waylays Buzz Dale as he tries to record Bart's deed. Then dressed as Bart, Duke kills and robs a man. With the Sheriff after Bart, Buzz escapes capture, finds the clothes worn to impersonate Bart, and heads for the Sheriff.
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Branded Men
Title: Branded Men
Character: Townsman Giving Directions
Released: November 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
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The Arizona Terror
Title: The Arizona Terror
Character: Pete - Henchman
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
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Law of the Rio Grande
Title: Law of the Rio Grande
Character: 'The Blanco Kid'
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in trouble again.
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Wild Horse
Title: Wild Horse
Character: Gil Davis
Released: August 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
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Breed of the West
Title: Breed of the West
Character: Tom Hardy - Henchman (as Edwin Cobb)
Released: November 12, 1930
Type: Movie
There is a feud on the Colonel's ranch between his foreman Longrope and some of the hands. The Colonel is firing those that don't get along with Longrope and it looks like Wally will be next. But things change when Jim overhears Longrope's plan to rob the Colonel. Longrope shoots Jim and this sends Wally into action.
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The Indians Are Coming
Title: The Indians Are Coming
Character: Bill Williams
Released: October 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack Manning (Tim McCoy) arrives in a midwestern town from Gold Creek in Califonia. He brings a message from Goerge Woods (Francis Ford) to his brother Tom Woods (Francis Ford), in a dual role, and niece Mary (Allene Ray, informing them he has struck gold and asking them to join him in California via a wagon train. Jack and Mary fall in love to the great displeasure of Rance Carter (Wilbur McGaugh) who has a yen for Mary himself. Jack and Mary not only have to be wary of Carter's crooked ways and machinations, but also of Indian uprisings, caused by Carter.
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What Men Want
Title: What Men Want
Character: Party Boy
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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Beyond the Rio Grande
Title: Beyond the Rio Grande
Character: Dick
Released: April 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Having quit their old gang and gone straight, Bert Allen and Joe Kemp finally own their own ranch after three years, but Joe robs the Riverton bank of the Green River Dam payroll - using Bert's horse, gun and gloves and leaving behind Bert's hat.
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Dames Ahoy
Title: Dames Ahoy
Character: Marine
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.
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Young Whirlwind
Title: Young Whirlwind
Character: Jack
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed only with a (very effective) slingshot.
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The Fightin' Redhead
Title: The Fightin' Redhead
Character: Tom Reynolds
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Red Hepner and his sidekick Sidewinder Steve go in search of an outlaw
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The Hound of Silver Creek
Title: The Hound of Silver Creek
Character: Jack Brooks
Released: May 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Molly White, the new schoolmistress at Silver Creek, makes the acquaintance of Jack Brooks, a wealthy eastern sportsman, when his pedigreed police dog, Dynamite, saves her from serious injury, and they become fast friends.
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The Call of the Heart
Title: The Call of the Heart
Character: Jerry Wilson
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Molly O'Day and her brother, Josh, are homesteading on and trying to make a living on a piece of government land, but local rancher Dave Crenshaw claims the land is part of his holdings, and he and his henchmen try to drive the O'Days off. Cowhand Jerry Wilson and his dog, Dynamite, come to their aid against Crenshaw.
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Fangs of Destiny
Title: Fangs of Destiny
Character: Jerry Matthews
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dynamite -- Universal's answer to Warner Bros.' canine star Rin Tin Tin -- and his owner Jerry Matthews (Edmund Cobb) come to the aid of a beleaguered rancher in this typical low-budget "doggie melodrama" set in the West.
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Wolf's Trail
Title: Wolf's Trail
Character: Captain Tom Grant
Released: October 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Heralded as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this minor outdoor melodrama starred Dynamite, one of canine phenomenon Rin Tin Tin's legion of imitators. Veteran actor Edmund Cobb headed the human cast as Captain Tom Grant, a Texas ranger impersonating an outlaw in order to infiltrate a gang of smugglers.
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The Courage of Collins
Title: The Courage of Collins
Character: Constable Collins
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
In this rare surviving two-reeler for Edmund Cobb's Universal series, the taciturn star plays Constable Collins, a Northwest Mounted police officer assigned to help pretty Rose Foster (Helen Foster) and her brother, Jack (Newton House), who are in trouble with a gang of claim jumpers. Unbeknownst to Rose, the gang is headed by Jim Murdock, whom the girl considers her only friend. Collins, who pretends to be a drifter, immediately becomes suspicious of Murdock's motives and the villain strikes back by having Rose kidnapped. There is a climactic fight in an abandoned shack in the wilderness but young Jack arrives in the nick of time with the Mounties.
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The Man Tamer
Title: The Man Tamer
Character: Tommy Ryan
Released: August 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Ed Cobb is in love with very cute Barbara Worth but she won’t marry him until he lowers his temper and stops fighting. When his rascally cousin forces Ed’s horse off the road, Ed falls and, unconscious for a while, develops amnesia and nearly marries a love-starved widow woman.
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The Two Fister
Title: The Two Fister
Character: Officer Field
Released: January 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.
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Martin of the Mounted
Title: Martin of the Mounted
Released: December 11, 1926
Type: Movie
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Dog of Dogs
Title: Dog of Dogs
Character: Jack Hale
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A silent short film starring "Fearless."
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The Man from Oklahoma
Title: The Man from Oklahoma
Character: Lynn Durant
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Sam Stallings kills and robs Lynn Durant. The Man from Oklahoma arrives and he and Stallings quickly become enemies. The Oklahoman eventually learns who killed Durant and avoiding the trap on his life by Stalling's henchman, sends his dog for the Sheriff while he goes after Stallings.
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The Show Cowpuncher
Title: The Show Cowpuncher
Character: Angus Dickinson - the Bronco Buster
Released: November 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Dorothy McGuire, owner of the Bar V Ranch, is rescued from a fall before a runaway by Angus Dickinson, a bronco buster whom she engages to tame an outlaw horse on her ranch. The next day Simeon Jones, who holds notes against her property, threatens her with eviction if she persists in repulsing his intimacy.
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Dog Scents
Title: Dog Scents
Character: Tom Martin
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A short western/crime film.
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The Saddle Tramp
Title: The Saddle Tramp
Released: October 2, 1926
Type: Movie
The Saddle Tramp is a silent Western
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Title: General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Character: Captain Harry Page
Released: September 16, 1926
Type: Movie
One of the bloodiest battles in American history is brought to life in this rarely-seen silent blockbuster. Over 3,000 extras were employed to recreate General George Custer's last stand against the Indian forces led by Crazy Horse.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Jim Hatley
Released: July 25, 1926
Type: Movie
While Pop Morton, a rancher, is being sworn in as deputy sheriff, his daughter Molly, to escape the unwelcome attentions of usurer Blair Hatley (who holds the mortgage on their ranch), meets Art Downs. Art is mistaken by Steve Baird, one of Hatley's henchmen, for "The Terror," a notorious Arizona bandit, and uses this mistake as an excuse to invade their stronghold, where he finds Molly--kidnaped by the rustlers.
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Four Square Steve
Title: Four Square Steve
Character: Steve
Released: June 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Four Square Steve is a roaming cowboy who saves Milly from the rude advances of a dyed-in-the-wool villain. She gets Steve a job on her father's ranch. The bad man returns and kidnaps Milly to a deserted shack where he tries to force her into marrying him. Steve has found the note she left and he is rides to the rescue.
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The Scrappin' Kid
Title: The Scrappin' Kid
Character: Cliff Barrowes
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Bradley, who owns a small house and a one-horse corral in the hills, saves the lives of Betty Brent and her brother Mike from a forest fire in which their mother has perished. He decides to take care of them. When word spreads that Betty is actually 18, a committee of citizens, headed by Cliff Barrowes, whose father holds a mortgage on Bill's property, calls to protest; the sheriff's wife offers the children a home; and soon after, Cliff begins to woo the girl. Bill, meanwhile, is forcibly held by a trio of outlaws about to flee across the border.
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Looking for Trouble
Title: Looking for Trouble
Character: Phil Curtis
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.
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The Galloping Cowboy
Title: The Galloping Cowboy
Character: Jack Perry (Bill's Cousin)
Released: May 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Crane is a fun-loving cowboy who likes to play pranks with an Australian bull-whip, much to the dismay of his ranch-owning uncle, Pete Perry. Bill and his cousin, Jack Perry, compete for the affections of Mary Pinkleby. Jack, unknown to Bill, is also an outlaw gang-leader, known as Poncho. The latter frames Bill as being the gang leader, and now Bill has to elude the sheriff and also prove his own innocence.
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The Burning Trail
Title: The Burning Trail
Character: Tommy Corliss
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a job on a ranch as a cook, and before he knows it he finds himself involved in a war between ranchers and sheepherders.
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Bashful Whirlwind
Title: Bashful Whirlwind
Character: Bob Evans
Released: April 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Bob Evans is the bashful foreman of the Denton ranch. He reads books and dreams of being a hero. He gets his chance when Gladys overhears Walling planning to smuggle stolen diamonds across the border. Finding Gladys' note, he sets out after Walling.
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Loaded Dice
Title: Loaded Dice
Character: Dice Allen
Released: March 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Loaded Dice is a 1925 Silent Western
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The Four-Footed Ranger
Title: The Four-Footed Ranger
Character: Jack Dunne
Released: March 25, 1925
Type: Movie
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California in '49
Title: California in '49
Character: Cal Coleman
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Feature version of Days of '49 (1924), a 15-chapter serial.
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Cupid's Rustler
Title: Cupid's Rustler
Character: Victim of a Crooked Card Game
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Story of a cowboy who falls for a notorious dance-hall girl. The girl is brought back home to the farm, where a crooked ranch foreman who knew the girl before, tries to seduce her. Gilbert, alas, is reformed and remains faithful to her benefactor.
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The Miracle Baby
Title: The Miracle Baby
Character: Jim Starke
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
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Riders of the Range
Title: Riders of the Range
Character: Martin Lethbridge
Released: February 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A growing number of cattle raids prompts the cattlemen to call on their cattlemen's association president Martin Lethbridge to investigate. Sheep Ranchers are suspected, who led by Gregg Randall blame the cattlemen for increased casualties among the sheep herds. Letherbridge falls in love with Randall's daughter, Dolly, and eventually exposes Blunt Vanier as the cause of the conflict.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: o.A.
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Deciding Kiss
Title: The Deciding Kiss
Released: July 22, 1918
Type: Movie
The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
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Social Briars
Title: Social Briars
Character: Jim Kane
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Title: The Clutch of Circumstance
Character: Eli Turner
Released: June 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Eli Turner, an unscrupulous lawyer, is defeated in court by Frank Morrison, a young attorney. Frank also has had the temerity to get in Turner's path over a girl. Now Turner plots to send Morrison to prison, but Nance, a mountain girl, who admires Frank, warns him of his danger.
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Across the Border
Title: Across the Border
Character: Ranger Curley Smith
Released: August 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Curley Smith, a lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, gets chased by a band of smugglers after getting caught spying on them and becomes injured. Anita, the daughter of the chief smuggler tends to him and the two of them fall in love. Dean, a member of the renegade, becomes jealous of their romance, and will do whatever he can to get rid of Curley - fair or foul.