Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

Born: August 28, 1896
Died: September 2, 1964
in Danville, Illinois, USA
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Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor.

Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939.

Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres.

Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan.

In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.

Movies for Morris Ankrum...

The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Guns of Diablo
Title: Guns of Diablo
Character: Ray Macklin
Released: October 4, 1964
Type: Movie
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Title: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Character: Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: The Archbishop
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
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Most Dangerous Man Alive
Title: Most Dangerous Man Alive
Character: Capt. Davis
Released: July 4, 1961
Type: Movie
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
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The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
Title: The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
Character: Gen. Lew Wallace
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Director Andrew V. McLaglen's 1961 drama, based on John William Fox's novel, is the tale of a young man returning home after fighting in the Civil War. The cast includes Jimmie Rodgers, Luana Patten, Chill Wills, George Kennedy, Neil Hamilton and Morris Ankrum.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Walter Harwood
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Title: Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Character: Dr. Carl Jordan
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
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From the Earth to the Moon
Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: President Ulysses S. Grant
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
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Tarawa Beachhead
Title: Tarawa Beachhead
Character: Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
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Frontier Gun
Title: Frontier Gun
Character: Andrew Barton
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
Title: The Saga of Hemp Brown
Character: Bo Slauter
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Title: Curse of the Faceless Man
Character: Narrator (unconfirmed)
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
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Twilight for the Gods
Title: Twilight for the Gods
Character: Sea Captain
Released: August 4, 1958
Type: Movie
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
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Badman's Country
Title: Badman's Country
Character: Mayor Coleman
Released: August 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.
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How to Make a Monster
Title: How to Make a Monster
Character: Police Capt. Hancock
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
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Young and Wild
Title: Young and Wild
Character: Police Capt. Egan
Released: April 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama.
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Title: Sea Hunt
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: TV
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.
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Giant from the Unknown
Title: Giant from the Unknown
Character: Dr. Frederick Cleveland
Released: January 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.
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The Power of the Resurrection
Title: The Power of the Resurrection
Character: Annas
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Joshua Haines
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge Hoyt
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: M Squad
Character: Police Inspector Dean
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: TV
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
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Omar Khayyam
Title: Omar Khayyam
Character: Sharain's Father
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
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Beginning of the End
Title: Beginning of the End
Character: Gen. John Hanson
Released: June 28, 1957
Type: Movie
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
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The Giant Claw
Title: The Giant Claw
Character: Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
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Kronos
Title: Kronos
Character: Dr. Albert Stern
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
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Hell's Crossroads
Title: Hell's Crossroads
Character: Wheeler
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
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Zombies of Mora Tau
Title: Zombies of Mora Tau
Character: Dr. Jonathan Eggert
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.
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Drango
Title: Drango
Character: Henry Calder
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
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Naked Gun
Title: Naked Gun
Character: Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
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The Desperados Are in Town
Title: The Desperados Are in Town
Character: Mr. Rutherford
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
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Walk the Proud Land
Title: Walk the Proud Land
Character: Gen. Wade
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft) given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to automomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Title: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Character: Brig. Gen. John Hanley
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Title: Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Character: Col. Harry Conover
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
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When Gangland Strikes
Title: When Gangland Strikes
Character: Leo Fantzler
Released: March 15, 1956
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
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Fury at Gunsight Pass
Title: Fury at Gunsight Pass
Character: Doc Phillips
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
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No Man's Woman
Title: No Man's Woman
Character: Capt. Hostedder
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.
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Tennessee's Partner
Title: Tennessee's Partner
Character: Judge Parker
Released: September 21, 1955
Type: Movie
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
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Duel on the Mississippi
Title: Duel on the Mississippi
Character: Magistrate (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1955
Type: Movie
In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Merle
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
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The Eternal Sea
Title: The Eternal Sea
Character: Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
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The Silver Star
Title: The Silver Star
Character: Charlie Childress
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
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Chief Crazy Horse
Title: Chief Crazy Horse
Character: Red Cloud
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.
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Crashout
Title: Crashout
Character: Head Guard
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
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The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
Title: The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
Character: Azar the Shepherd
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.
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Vera Cruz
Title: Vera Cruz
Character: Gen. Ramírez
Released: December 25, 1954
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
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The Steel Cage
Title: The Steel Cage
Character: Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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Three Young Texans
Title: Three Young Texans
Character: Jeff Blair
Released: November 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A Texan robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime. A young girl attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend demands a share of the money.
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Title: Cattle Queen of Montana
Character: J.I. 'Pop' Jones
Released: November 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
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Two Guns and a Badge
Title: Two Guns and a Badge
Character: Sheriff Jackson
Released: September 11, 1954
Type: Movie
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
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Silver Lode
Title: Silver Lode
Character: Zachary Evans
Released: July 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Apache
Title: Apache
Character: Dawson
Released: July 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
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The Outlaw Stallion
Title: The Outlaw Stallion
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy Gray, Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Dorothy Patrick, Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette and Morris Ankrum.
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Drums Across the River
Title: Drums Across the River
Character: Chief Ouray
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
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Southwest Passage
Title: Southwest Passage
Character: Dr. Stanton
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Director Ray Nazarro's 1954 western, originally filmed in 3-D, stars John Ireland and Joanne Dru as fugitive bank robbers who hide out by joining a government expedition bound for California.
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Taza, Son of Cochise
Title: Taza, Son of Cochise
Character: Grey Eagle
Released: February 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...
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Flight Nurse
Title: Flight Nurse
Character: Interrogation Officer
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
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The Moonlighter
Title: The Moonlighter
Character: Alexander Prince
Released: September 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck), who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.
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Mexican Manhunt
Title: Mexican Manhunt
Character: Tip Morgan
Released: September 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
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Sky Commando
Title: Sky Commando
Character: Gen. W.R. Combs
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
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Devil's Canyon
Title: Devil's Canyon
Character: Ed
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
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Arena
Title: Arena
Character: Bucky Hillberry
Released: June 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
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Invaders from Mars
Title: Invaders from Mars
Character: Col. Fielding
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
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I Beheld His Glory
Title: I Beheld His Glory
Character: Peter
Released: March 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.
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Fort Vengeance
Title: Fort Vengeance
Character: Chief Crowfoot
Released: March 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to brew with the Indians.
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The Man Behind The Gun
Title: The Man Behind The Gun
Character: Bram Creegan
Released: January 31, 1953
Type: Movie
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
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Hiawatha
Title: Hiawatha
Character: Iagoo
Released: December 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.
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A Star Shall Rise
Title: A Star Shall Rise
Character: King Herod
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of the Three Magi's search for the Christ child following their discovery of a new star foretold in Jewish scripture and Zoroastrain religious texts.
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Because of You
Title: Because of You
Character: Dr. Travis
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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The Raiders
Title: The Raiders
Character: Thomas Ainsworth
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Raymond
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Warden
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Cowboy G-Men
Released: September 13, 1952
Type: TV
Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.
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Son of Ali Baba
Title: Son of Ali Baba
Character: Ali Baba
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
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Red Planet Mars
Title: Red Planet Mars
Character: Secretary of Defense Sparks
Released: May 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
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Mutiny
Title: Mutiny
Character: Capt. Radford
Released: March 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
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Fort Osage
Title: Fort Osage
Character: Arthur Pickett
Released: February 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory. Clay knows that he's in for a lot of trouble because of the treaty-violating activities of white criminals Pickett and Keane. Fortunately for the hero, Pickett and Keane double-cross each other somewhere along the line, weakening their ability to foment an all-out Indian attack.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Gen. Frazer
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
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Flight To Mars
Title: Flight To Mars
Character: Ikron
Released: November 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
Title: Tomorrow Is Another Day
Character: Hugh Wagner
Released: August 8, 1951
Type: Movie
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
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Along the Great Divide
Title: Along the Great Divide
Character: Ed Roden
Released: June 2, 1951
Type: Movie
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
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Fighting Coast Guard
Title: Fighting Coast Guard
Character: Navy Captain
Released: May 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
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The Lion Hunters
Title: The Lion Hunters
Character: Tom Forbes
Released: March 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
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The Redhead and The Cowboy
Title: The Redhead and The Cowboy
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle
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Short Grass
Title: Short Grass
Character: Hal Fenton
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
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Southside 1-1000
Title: Southside 1-1000
Character: Eugene Deane
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
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Rocketship X-M
Title: Rocketship X-M
Character: Dr. Ralph Fleming
Released: June 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
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In a Lonely Place
Title: In a Lonely Place
Character: Lloyd Barnes
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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The Damned Don't Cry
Title: The Damned Don't Cry
Character: Jim Whitehead
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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Borderline
Title: Borderline
Character: Bill Whittaker
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, thee find them selves falling in love with each other. Neither is aware of the other's identity As they decide to make a run for the border.
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Chain Lightning
Title: Chain Lightning
Character: Ed Bostwick
Released: February 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: United States Marshal
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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We Were Strangers
Title: We Were Strangers
Character: M. Seymour
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
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Bad Men of Tombstone
Title: Bad Men of Tombstone
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: January 21, 1949
Type: Movie
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary
Character: Adm. Walton
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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The Fabulous Fraud
Title: The Fabulous Fraud
Character: Blind Girl's Father
Released: August 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: Robert J. Higby
Released: July 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
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Souvenirs of Death
Title: Souvenirs of Death
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1948
Type: Movie
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its way into the hands of an American gangster.
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High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Dr. Stanley Griffin
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Dean Griswold
Released: December 4, 1947
Type: Movie
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
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Desire Me
Title: Desire Me
Character: Hector Martin
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
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Merton of the Movies
Title: Merton of the Movies
Character: Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1947
Type: Movie
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
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Cynthia
Title: Cynthia
Character: Mr. Phillips, Principal
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Song of the Thin Man
Title: Song of the Thin Man
Character: Inspector (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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The Sea of Grass
Title: The Sea of Grass
Character: A.J. Crane
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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Little Mister Jim
Title: Little Mister Jim
Character: Col. W.I. Starwell
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
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The Mighty McGurk
Title: The Mighty McGurk
Character: Fowles
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters' 1946 period comedy, set in New York's Bowery, stars Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Aline MacMahon, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick, Aubrey Mather, Clinton Sundberg, Milton Parsons, Morris Ankrum and Oliver Blake.
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Lady in the Lake
Title: Lady in the Lake
Character: Eugene Grayson
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Courage of Lassie
Title: Courage of Lassie
Character: Farmer Crews
Released: November 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
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The Cockeyed Miracle
Title: The Cockeyed Miracle
Character: Dr. Wilson
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Harvey Girls
Title: The Harvey Girls
Character: Rev. Claggett
Released: January 18, 1946
Type: Movie
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Purity Squad
Title: Purity Squad
Character: Dr. Adams (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1945
Type: Movie
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
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The Hidden Eye
Title: The Hidden Eye
Character: Ferris (henchman)
Released: August 31, 1945
Type: Movie
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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Phantoms, Inc.
Title: Phantoms, Inc.
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 9, 1945
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Title: The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Willoughby Peavy
Released: December 24, 1944
Type: Movie
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Dark Shadows
Title: Dark Shadows
Character: Lt. Pat McKay
Released: December 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
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Gentle Annie
Title: Gentle Annie
Character: Deputy Gansby
Released: December 5, 1944
Type: Movie
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Character: Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Return from Nowhere
Title: Return from Nowhere
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1944
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Alec Veeder
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Title: Marriage Is a Private Affair
Character: Ed Scofield
Released: August 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
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Meet the People
Title: Meet the People
Character: Monte Rowland
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
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Main Street Today
Title: Main Street Today
Character: Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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Rationing
Title: Rationing
Character: Morgan
Released: March 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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The Heavenly Body
Title: The Heavenly Body
Character: Dr. Green
Released: March 23, 1944
Type: Movie
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Dan Conlon
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Col. Harkrider
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Editor
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Martin
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Time to Kill
Title: Time to Kill
Character: Alexander Morny
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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Tennessee Johnson
Title: Tennessee Johnson
Character: Jefferson Davis
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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The Omaha Trail
Title: The Omaha Trail
Character: Henchman Job
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: Mr. Graham
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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Tales of Manhattan
Title: Tales of Manhattan
Character: Judge Tom Barnes (Robinson sequence)
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Tales of Manhattan
Title: Tales of Manhattan
Character: Judge
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Wood
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Martin S. Harrison
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Ace Anderson
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Road Agent
Title: Road Agent
Character: Big John Morgan
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Assistant District Attorney
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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The Bandit Trail
Title: The Bandit Trail
Character: Red Haggerty
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
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This Woman Is Mine
Title: This Woman Is Mine
Character: Roussel
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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Wide Open Town
Title: Wide Open Town
Character: Jim Stuart
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Pirates on Horseback
Title: Pirates on Horseback
Character: Ace Gibson
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
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Border Vigilantes
Title: Border Vigilantes
Character: Dan Forbes
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
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The Roundup
Title: The Roundup
Character: 'Parenthesis'
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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In Old Colorado
Title: In Old Colorado
Character: Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
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Doomed Caravan
Title: Doomed Caravan
Character: Stephen Westcott
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
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Three Men from Texas
Title: Three Men from Texas
Character: Bruce Morgan
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
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Cherokee Strip
Title: Cherokee Strip
Character: Hawk Barrett
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: Second Outlaw
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Light of Western Stars
Title: Light of Western Stars
Character: Nat Hayworth
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Baron Rendor
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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Knights of the Range
Title: Knights of the Range
Character: Gamecock
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-in with an outlaw gang, Frayne aligns himself with the heroine Holly Ripple (Jean Parker), whose father's cattle ranch is in danger of falling into the hands of the villains. Victor Jory as Malcolm Lascallie, the wily gambler,
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Rustlers' Valley
Title: Rustlers' Valley
Character: Glen Randall
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Henry Stoneham
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
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Hills of Old Wyoming
Title: Hills of Old Wyoming
Character: Andrews
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that justice is served. Songs abound.
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: Loco
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
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Trail Dust
Title: Trail Dust
Character: Tex Anderson
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Character: Blackie Felton
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.