Forrest Taylor

Forrest Taylor

Born: December 29, 1883
Died: February 19, 1965
in Bloomington, Illinois, USA
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Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 - February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color.

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The FBI Story
Title: The FBI Story
Character: Wedding Minister (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Title: The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Released: September 22, 1959
Type: TV
The Dennis O'Keefe Show is a 1959-1960 sitcom produced by United Artists Television which aired on CBS for sponsor General Motors' Oldsmobile division. It was not a ratings success during its original run, and was largely forgotten until a "Best Of" DVD release by Alpha Video during 2004. Certain episodes of the show can also be seen at the Internet Archive. It appears the series has entered the public domain.
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Title: Man Without a Gun
Character: Doc Brannon
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: TV
Man Without a Gun, is an American western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his Yellowstone Sentinel. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword".Harry Harvey, Sr., was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon. The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and common sense to bring outlaws to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong.
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Title: Maverick
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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Footsteps in the Night
Title: Footsteps in the Night
Character: Shaw (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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The Book of Acts Series
Title: The Book of Acts Series
Character: Ananias
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The Book of Acts is a 10-part series of short Bible films dramatizing the 28 chapters that comprise the Acts of the Apostles. The series was produced in 1957 by Family Films on behalf of Broadman Films, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Title: Official Detective
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: TV
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The Christmas Spirit
Title: The Christmas Spirit
Character: Homer Link
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Story about two boys who want ponies for Christmas but their family can only afford one. The horse owner, who is bitter about the loss of his son in the war, is softened by the boys' sacrifice for each other.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Dr. Caslin
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Character: Frank Wilkins
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: My Friend Flicka
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: TV
My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1, 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's The Adventures of Champion. Both series, however failed in the ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at 6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958. In subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years many viewers were unaware that the series produced episodes for only a single season. My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his horse Flicka, Swedish for "little girl", but actually an Arabian sorrel named Wahana. Gene Evans played the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal ranch hand. Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch. My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A 1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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The Matchmaking Marshal
Title: The Matchmaking Marshal
Character: Ira Beecher
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Dawn at Socorro
Title: Dawn at Socorro
Character: Jebb Hayes
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Bitter Creek
Title: Bitter Creek
Character: Harley Pruett
Released: February 21, 1954
Type: Movie
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
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Nostradamus and the Queen
Title: Nostradamus and the Queen
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1953
Type: Movie
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.
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The Lost Planet
Title: The Lost Planet
Character: Prof. Edmund Dorn
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Sam Sawyer
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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South Pacific Trail
Title: South Pacific Trail
Character: Train Conductor
Released: October 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor. Meanwhile, the rancher's foreman executes plans for a train robbery.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Mark Hopkins
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Dr. Washburn
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: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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Park Row
Title: Park Row
Character: Charles A. Leach
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
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Border Saddlemates
Title: Border Saddlemates
Character: Mel Richards
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex Allen ('Rex Allen'), a U. S. government veterinarian, rides into the picturesque town of Pine Rock, near the Canadian border, to take the place of the regular vet who is on vacation. Used to doctoring animals in Texas, Allen finds out that herein the heart of the fox-farming industry, he is to doctor the most finicky and high-priced of fur on four feet. On the farm of Mel Richards (Tom London), Allen learns the habits of the valuable creatures from Richard's niece, Jane (Mary Ellen Kay, and her ten-year-old brother Danny (Jimmy Moss'), and on his own learns that the trusted owner of the trading post, Steve Baxter (Roy Barcroft) heads a gang that is smuggling counterfeit money across the American/Canadian border in the fox cages.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Posse Member (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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The Story of Christopher Columbus: Proving the Earth Is Round
Title: The Story of Christopher Columbus: Proving the Earth Is Round
Released: February 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life story of Christopher Columbus, a young boy dreaming of proving the earth is round by finding a westward trade route to the far east.
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Flaming Feather
Title: Flaming Feather
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
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Smoky Canyon
Title: Smoky Canyon
Character: Mr. Wyler
Released: January 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war for his own profit. The Durango Kid helps clear Mahoney's name.
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The Living Bible
Title: The Living Bible
Character: Nicodemus
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Dr. Holmes
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Utah Wagon Train
Title: Utah Wagon Train
Character: Cyrus Bonner
Released: October 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Title: Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Character: Doctor
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even the outlaws who rob the stage, Rocky goes undercover as an outlaw.
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Blazing Bullets
Title: Blazing Bullets
Character: John Roberts
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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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Rustlers on Horseback
Title: Rustlers on Horseback
Character: Josh Taylor
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
When he catches wind that bookish George Parradine (John Eldredge) is actually a ruthless outlaw who's had one man killed and is now trying to steal a fortune from another, U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) poses as a bandit and infiltrates Parradine's gang. But Rocky's quest for justice is jeopardized when the dead man's son (George Nader) also goes undercover to get revenge on his father's killer. Fred C. Brannon directs this 1950 Western.
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Cherokee Uprising
Title: Cherokee Uprising
Character: Indian Agent William Welch
Released: October 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid the wagon trains with crooked sheriff Marshall Reed and nefarious Indian agent Forrest Taylor.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Sheriff
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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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Rev. William Smiley
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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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Target Clerk (voice) (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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Code of the Silver Sage
Title: Code of the Silver Sage
Character: Rancher Sandy
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the guise of a respectable firearms merchant. Hoping to eradicate the lawlessness plaguing the newspaperman Fred Gately prints a letter asking the president to visit the area. But Fred's killed by secret gang leader Champion, who also plans to assassinate the president. Undercover officer Rocky Lane teams with his assistant, Nugget, and Fred's spunky daughter to combat Champion's head gunslinger.
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The Fighting Stallion
Title: The Fighting Stallion
Character: Martin Evans
Released: March 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Released from a navy hospital following WW II, Lon Evans learns that he faces eventual blindness and returns to his Wyoming ranch. He sees a beautiful white stallion named Starlight and his cowhands Lem and Yancy say he is a killer and cannot be trained. Lon disproves this by training the stallion to act as his guide in preparation for his future blindness.
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Forbidden Jungle
Title: Forbidden Jungle
Character: Trader Kirk
Released: March 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A hunter is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals.
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The Fargo Phantom
Title: The Fargo Phantom
Character: Hartley
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits. This film was combined with another Tex Williams short, Coyote Canyon, and reissued as the feature-length "Tales of the West No.2.)
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Title: Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Character: Miles Stevenson
Released: December 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.
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Deputy Marshal
Title: Deputy Marshal
Character: Sheriff Jeff Lance
Released: October 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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The Pecos Pistol
Title: The Pecos Pistol
Character: Capt. McCormick
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.
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Navajo Trail Raiders
Title: Navajo Trail Raiders
Character: Sam Brynes
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Outlaw gangs are plundering the freight lines that bring supplies into Yellow Creek. The only thing that will save the town is the insurance money on the freight, but the outlaws are looking to steal that also. Lane comes to town as the best man for the wedding of Tom and Judy, but it will be up to him to find the outlaw boss.
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The Fighting Redhead
Title: The Fighting Redhead
Character: Dan O'Connor
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Red Ryder gets a telegram from his old friend Dan O'Connor asking for help in his fight against Faro Savage and his gang of rustlers. A gun dropped by Faro during a rustling raid makes Red and Sheila O'Connor, Dan's daughter, think they have ample proof against Faro but they are stymied by the law. Buckskin Blodgett and the Duchess, Red's aunt, find the body of O'Connor who was killed when Faro's men sent the sheriff out on a ruse. Sheila, discovered while rifling Faros office for evidence, escapes but not before she is recognized. Faro kills one of his own henchmen and then frames Sheila for the murder. Red and Little Beaver set out to clear Sheila and to try to find evidence against Faro and his gang. Written by Les Adams
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Stallion Canyon
Title: Stallion Canyon
Character: Tom Lawson
Released: June 15, 1949
Type: Movie
It took a lot of courage to set up a new production company devoted to "B" westerns in 1949, a year when the genre was showing signs of winding down. Filmed in Trucolor, Stallion Canyon was the maiden effort from Kanab Productions, a Utah-based organization. Former Sons of the Pioneers vocalist Ken Curtis made his starring debut in this one, playing a ranch foreman who does his best to track down a rogue stallion. The rest of the cast is comprised of unknowns, save for villains Ted Adams and Forrest Taylor. Cheaply produced, Stallion Canyon has the twin advantages of a relatively new leading man and excellent location photography.
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The Lawton Story
Title: The Lawton Story
Character: Uncle Mark Wallock
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the film up to feature length, a fictional plotline concerning the preparations for the pageant was hastily assembled, featuring such familiar Hollywood character players as Forrest Taylor, Willa Pearl Curtis and Maude Eburne.
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Death Valley Gunfighter
Title: Death Valley Gunfighter
Character: Lester Clark
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining project has been killed by outlaws trying to gain possession of the mine. The other brother Nugget Clark wants no part of the law, and is particularly set against the young sheriff courting his niece Trudy.
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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Bruce Gentry
Title: Bruce Gentry
Character: Dr. Alexander Benson
Released: February 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be directed at moving or stationary targets. The disc was master-minded by an enemy agent known only as "The Recorder" because...he speaks entirely via recordings. Aided by rancher Frank Farrell and his sister Juanita "Nita" Hodges, Gentry consistently foils "The Recorders" schemes, which are carried out by "The Recorder's" henchmen, Krendon, Allen and Chandler, including an attack on the Panama Canal.
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The Golden Eye
Title: The Golden Eye
Character: Mr. Manning
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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Four Faces West
Title: Four Faces West
Character: Conductor No.2
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: Leeds
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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Coroner Creek
Title: Coroner Creek
Character: McCune
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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Albuquerque
Title: Albuquerque
Character: Stage Depot Agent (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Shadow Valley
Title: Shadow Valley
Character: Dad Jarvis
Released: November 29, 1947
Type: Movie
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters. This time, the star plays as U.S. marshal who comes to the rescue of the standard damsel in distress (Jennifer Holt, sister of Tim and daughter of Jack). The double-dyed villain (George Cheseboro) is a crooked lawyer (and former train robber) who wants to lay claim to the heroine's ranch.
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The Black Widow
Title: The Black Widow
Character: Bradley
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
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Buckaroo from Powder River
Title: Buckaroo from Powder River
Character: Pop Ryland
Released: October 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve arrives looking for the person printing counterfeit bonds. He finds his man in Pop Ryland who has two sons and a stepson. The stepson doesn't want to be an outlaw like the other sons and helps Steve out by posing as the Durango Kid when needed and then leading him to the evidence he is looking for.
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Along the Oregon Trail
Title: Along the Oregon Trail
Character: Kit Carson
Released: August 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians but Monte Hale breaks up his attack on the supply train. But when they get them by robbing the warehouse, Monte suspects Thuston who had the other key. He follows Thurston only to be caught by him just as Thurston launches his final big attack.
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Rustlers of Devil's Canyon
Title: Rustlers of Devil's Canyon
Character: Dr. Glover
Released: June 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Red Ryder returns to Sioux City, Wyoming, at the close of the Spanish-American War, settling down at the ranch of his aunt, The Duchess, with his pals Little Beaver and "Blizzard". But Red soon discovers that the country is over-run by rustlers.
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Yankee Fakir
Title: Yankee Fakir
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
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Code of the West
Title: Code of the West
Character: Ira Meeker (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action.
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Stagecoach to Denver
Title: Stagecoach to Denver
Character: Matt Disher (Rancher)
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: Moore
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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The Crimson Ghost
Title: The Crimson Ghost
Character: Prof. Van Wyck
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.
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Strange Voyage
Title: Strange Voyage
Character: Skipper
Released: July 6, 1946
Type: Movie
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
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Colorado Serenade
Title: Colorado Serenade
Character: Judge Roy Hilton
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job and they are aided by undercover man Nevada.
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The Caravan Trail
Title: The Caravan Trail
Character: Judge Silas Black
Released: April 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The Caravan Trail stars PRC Pictures' resident singing cowboy Eddie Dean. This time around, wagonmaster Dean is appointed sheriff of a lawless frontier territory. Immediately getting down to business, our hero goes after a band of land-grabbing outlaws who've been terrorizing the homesteaders. The film is stolen hands down by supporting play Al LaRue, who as "Lash" LaRue would eventually be awarded a western series of his own. Like most of Eddie Dean's 1946 releases, The Caravan Trail was lensed in the two-hued Cinecolor process. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-caravan-trail-v8165#ome2SWX8mH31k9yd.99
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Romance of the West
Title: Romance of the West
Character: Father Sullivan
Released: March 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The happy Indians live in Antelope Valley and Eddie is the new Indian Agent. Everything seems fine until the town selectmen want the valley occupied by the Indians because it contains silver. So they hire outlaw Indians and Chico to start trouble hoping that the army will forcibly remove them from the valley and they will claim it. But Father Sullivan and Eddie believe the Indians are being wronged even though they cannot convince anyone else.
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Strange Impersonation
Title: Strange Impersonation
Character: Nora's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
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The Blind Beggar of Jerusalem
Title: The Blind Beggar of Jerusalem
Character: Laban
Released: December 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A story from the New Testament about Jesus' conflict with the high priests and working the miracle of restoring sight to the Blind Beggar. The beggar, no longer blind, is examined by the priests and cast out of the temple.
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Bandits of the Badlands
Title: Bandits of the Badlands
Character: Pop Wayne
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her ranch.
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Dangerous Intruder
Title: Dangerous Intruder
Character: Dr. Bascom
Released: August 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Mike
Released: July 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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Federal Operator 99
Title: Federal Operator 99
Character: Otto Wolfe
Released: July 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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The Power of the Whistler
Title: The Power of the Whistler
Character: Stage Door Guard
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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Identity Unknown
Title: Identity Unknown
Character: Mr. Anderson
Released: April 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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Manhunt of Mystery Island
Title: Manhunt of Mystery Island
Character: Prof. William Forrest
Released: March 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.
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Sagebrush Heroes
Title: Sagebrush Heroes
Character: Tom Goodwin
Released: February 1, 1945
Type: Movie
This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a radio show with Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy Wakely) and his Saddle Pals, and are in town for a rodeo. Reporter Connie Pearson (Constance Worth) persuades them to visit Marty Jones (Elvin Fields), a fatherless boy, who has been sent to a boy's home after stealing Steve's wallet, ran by Tom Goodwin (Forrest Taylor.) Marty tells Steve that the home is a phony and is a front for cattle rustlers. Steve passes the information on to Connie, who doesn't believe him, so he and Jimmy wire the ranch for sound. They are caught and Goodwin turns them over to Sheriff Barnes (Edmund Cobb), and then plans to skip the country
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Mom and Dad
Title: Mom and Dad
Character: Dr. John D. Ashley
Released: January 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child.
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Haunted Harbor
Title: Haunted Harbor
Character: Dr. Oliver Harding [Chs. 1-4]
Released: August 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--the captain's former partner--is hiding so the captain can clear his name. As it turns out, their troubles are only beginning
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Song of Nevada
Title: Song of Nevada
Character: Colonel Jack Thompson
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
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The Last Horseman
Title: The Last Horseman
Character: Bert Saunders
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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Sonora Stagecoach
Title: Sonora Stagecoach
Character: Judge Crandall
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The Trail Blazers are bringing in a prisoner to stand trial for bank robbery, when several attempts are made to kill him; convinced of the man's innocence, they arrange a trap for the real thieves.
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Mystery Man
Title: Mystery Man
Character: Sam Newhall
Released: May 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
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Shake Hands with Murder
Title: Shake Hands with Murder
Character: Kennedy
Released: April 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the body of the embezzler's late business partner pop up doesn't help matters.
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Mojave Firebrand
Title: Mojave Firebrand
Character: Sheriff Barker
Released: March 19, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, a crusty old sourdough finally finds the silver mine of his dreams only to find his mine threatened by vicious outlaws. Fortunately, a cowboy hero rides up to save him, but not until considerable rootin' tootin' action.
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Lady in the Death House
Title: Lady in the Death House
Character: Warden
Released: March 15, 1944
Type: Movie
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Title: Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Character: Deacon - 2nd Robber
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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Gun to Gun
Title: Gun to Gun
Released: January 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle. Steve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out. Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.
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Death Valley Rangers
Title: Death Valley Rangers
Character: Captain Ainsley
Released: December 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele) -- a legendary trio of law enforcers -- to find the gold and figure out who's behind the thefts.
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Bullets and Saddles
Title: Bullets and Saddles
Character: Marshal Claiburn
Released: October 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Hammond is after the Craig ranch and has framed Charlie Craig for murder. Mother Craig brings in the Range Busters. They capture one of Hammond's men and Alibi plans to trick him into a confession as to who the real murderer is. Meanwhile, Denny has overheard Hammond's plans for his next move and he and Crash set out to round up the gang.
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The Kansan
Title: The Kansan
Character: Doctor
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Sleepy Lagoon
Title: Sleepy Lagoon
Character: Samuel
Released: September 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Judge Pebble
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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Spy Train
Title: Spy Train
Character: Anderson #2
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
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Song of Texas
Title: Song of Texas
Character: Race Official
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
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Wild Horse Stampede
Title: Wild Horse Stampede
Character: Marshal Cliff Tyler
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians.
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Dead Men Walk
Title: Dead Men Walk
Character: The Fireplace Face
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Man Tied Up in Car Backseat
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Doctor
Released: March 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
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Land of Hunted Men
Title: Land of Hunted Men
Character: Dad Oliver
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
When a gang of outlaws led by Faro Wilson starts swiping payrolls and terrorizing the residents of a small Western town, courageous Range Busters Crash, Denny and Alibi gallop onto the scene to set things straight.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Clem
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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A Night for Crime
Title: A Night for Crime
Character: Police Chief Williams
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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The Fighting Buckaroo
Title: The Fighting Buckaroo
Character: Mark Comstock (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, a lonesome cowpoke trots into a town and helps clear his pardner's name. The trouble began when the friend was framed by the leader of the Cattlemen's association who made it seem like he was a rustler. Because the friend was an ex-con, the evidence against him seems airtight. The wandering hero must work extra hard to prove his friend's innocence.
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Thundering Trails
Title: Thundering Trails
Character: Ben Walker
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
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Man of Courage
Title: Man of Courage
Character: Mary Crandall
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
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Ridin' Down the Canyon
Title: Ridin' Down the Canyon
Character: Jim Fellowes
Released: December 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
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The Rangers Take Over
Title: The Rangers Take Over
Character: John Wyatt
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
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Trail Riders
Title: Trail Riders
Character: Mike Rand
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary's brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole's orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole's involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Hugh Walker
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
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The Yanks Are Coming
Title: The Yanks Are Coming
Character: Capt. Brown
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
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Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Title: Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Character: Sheriff Gibbons
Released: October 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Director William Witney puts his distinctive stamp on the Don "Red" Barry western Outlaws of Pine Ridge by opening the picture with a body sailing through the plate-glass window of a frontier saloon. Barry stars as gun-slingin' Chips Barrett, who makes it his mission in life to prevent the inaccurately nicknamed Honest John Hollister (Noah Beery Sr.) from becoming territorial governor. Complicating things is the fact that Chips is in love with Honest John's daughter Ann.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Taylor
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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Arizona Stage Coach
Title: Arizona Stage Coach
Character: Larry Meadows
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Jim Bixby
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Bennett
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Man in Saloon with Carlin
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Preacher Hinsdale
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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Home in Wyomin'
Title: Home in Wyomin'
Character: Pop Harrison
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Commissioner Harvey
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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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: George Belknap
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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Lawless Plainsmen
Title: Lawless Plainsmen
Character: Kit Carson
Released: March 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
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Bullets for Bandits
Title: Bullets for Bandits
Character: Bert Brown
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Grant
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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The Lone Star Vigilantes
Title: The Lone Star Vigilantes
Character: Dr. Mark Banning
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: Netzikoff's Butler
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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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Ambulance Attendant
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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Underground Rustlers
Title: Underground Rustlers
Character: Jim Bently
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Fenwick the Inventor
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Plant Employee
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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The Iron Claw
Title: The Iron Claw
Character: Anton Benson
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
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Kansas Cyclone
Title: Kansas Cyclone
Character: Ben Brown
Released: June 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
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Wrangler's Roost
Title: Wrangler's Roost
Character: Deacon Stewart, aka Black Bart
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.
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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Voice of The Gargoyle
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Title: Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Character: Hanson
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Mr. Forbes
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Title: Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Character: Brad Craven
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain Bradley Craven (Forrest Taylor) is determined to stop the election process that would allow the region to join the Union. Tex and Slim join a rancher and his daughter to stop Craven, with fearless Tex going undercover to ensure that justice is served.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
Title: Ridin' on a Rainbow
Character: Rancher Jeff Billings
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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The Lone Rider Rides On
Title: The Lone Rider Rides On
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child at the time, he vividly remembers the scar on the ringleader's face -- and Tom will stop at nothing until he brings him to justice … and exacts vengeance.
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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Title: Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Character: Tom Roberts
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Snipe - Foranti Thug
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Parker Howett
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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West of Abilene
Title: West of Abilene
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
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Trailing Double Trouble
Title: Trailing Double Trouble
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Harley Richards
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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That Gang of Mine
Title: That Gang of Mine
Character: Morgan
Released: September 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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Arizona Gang Busters
Title: Arizona Gang Busters
Character: Ed Lambert
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Arizona Gang Busters is another pre-WWII saber-rattler that finds a band of renegade gunmen, under the pretense of developing an irrigation project for the reclamation of arid desert land, using airplanes and parachute jumpers to gather valuable military information for a European power.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: The Bailiff
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Durango Kid
Title: The Durango Kid
Character: Ben Winslow
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: The Skull (masked)
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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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Judge Malcolm Parker
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Bill Rawls
Released: July 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The dangerous Ceegareet gang has control of Boom Town. No miner with rich diggings is safe from this murderous gang. Tex Roberts and his pal Slim Hunkafeller strike a pay vein and find themselves marked as the gang's next victims.
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Wild Horse Range
Title: Wild Horse Range
Character: Mitchell
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Randall and his sidekick Manny (Frank Yaconelli) played horse traders battling a greedy and unscrupulous rival (Tom London). When some of his stock disappears, Jack follows the trail to a ranch belonging to Harriet Morgan (Marin Sais) and her young niece, Ann (Phyllis Ruth). A white stallion is accused of luring the Morgan mares astray but the horses are in reality being rustled by the ever-present London and his henchman (Charles King).
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Frontier Crusader
Title: Frontier Crusader
Character: John Stoner
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
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Terry and the Pirates
Title: Terry and the Pirates
Character: Allen Drake
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Train Passenger
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Title: Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Character: Ranger Captain Edward Crane
Released: March 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Tex and Shorty ride into Cinco Valley, a gold rich area terrorized by marauders ostensibly lead by one Pablo. Tex, however, recognizes Blackie, whose boss is Bannister, an American. Suspecting that Bannister and his henchmen are trying to drive the settlers off their potentially valuable land by posing as Mexican banditos, Tex convinces Pablo to help him set a trap for the marauders.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alerts Jeff Baker about the $1000. Bakers' henchman are too late to get the Kid but they kill the rancher paid by the Kid. The Sheriff then arrests the Kid claiming he murdered the rancher to get the money back and that Baker said he then lost it at his gambling table.
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The Sagebrush Family Trails West
Title: The Sagebrush Family Trails West
Character: Len Gorman
Released: January 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Minerva Urecal, Earle Hodgins and Joyce Bryant. Their progress is impeded when Hodgins is framed on a robbery charge, but Clark uses his fancy lariat to hog-tie the genuine crooks.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: J.G. Whitmore
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
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Meet Dr. Christian
Title: Meet Dr. Christian
Character: Gtant, City Council Member
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
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Trigger Fingers
Title: Trigger Fingers
Character: Crane, Cowhand-Henchman
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
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Danger Flight
Title: Danger Flight
Character: Police Radio Dispatcher
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.
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Riders of Black River
Title: Riders of Black River
Character: Sheriff Dave Patterson
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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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Mr. Stevens
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 Fighting Renegade
Title: The Fighting Renegade
Character: Prof. Lucius Lloyd
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson, a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.
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Straight Shooter
Title: Straight Shooter
Character: Henchman Luke Green
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Daggett - Morgan Henchman
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Stunt Pilot
Title: Stunt Pilot
Character: Doctor
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Outlaws' Paradise
Title: Outlaws' Paradise
Character: Henchman Eddie
Released: April 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
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Texas Wildcats
Title: Texas Wildcats
Character: Jim Burrows
Released: April 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle. Bill is robbing Burrows while posing as the mysterious Phantom and it's not long before the two collide.
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Trigger Smith
Title: Trigger Smith
Character: Mr. Carter
Released: March 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
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Code of the Cactus
Title: Code of the Cactus
Character: Blackton
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Judge Miller
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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The Phantom Stage
Title: The Phantom Stage
Character: Gabe Lawson
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Carson and sidekick Grizzly take a job driving a stage for a line that is being repeatedly robbed. The culprits place a large box on the stage in which Runt can hide and steal the gold without the driver or guard knowing it. When Bob realizes what is happening, he replaces Runt in the box in hope of catching the outlaws.
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Honor of the West
Title: Honor of the West
Character: Lem Walker
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Black
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Townsman
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Ghost Town Riders
Title: Ghost Town Riders
Character: Gomer
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly and eventually realizes Gomer is up to something. When Gomer's henchman slips and reveals there is a letter, Bob finds it and heads for the tax collector with Gomer's men in pursuit.
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California Frontier
Title: California Frontier
Character: General Wyatt
Released: December 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Halstead forces the Land Agent to alter the records and then kicks the Mexicans off their land. Buck has been sent to investigate and quickly joins up with Juan Cantova in the fight against Halstead. To keep Buck from seeing the records, Halstead has the Agent murdered. His men then claim Juan killed him and both Buck and Juan then find themselves wanted dead or alive.
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Gun Packer
Title: Gun Packer
Character: Hart - Express Manager
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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Law of the Texan
Title: Law of the Texan
Character: Captain Moore - Texas Rangers
Released: October 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Gunfight Henchman
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Black Bandit
Title: Black Bandit
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Twin brothers Bob and Don Ramsay are on opposite sides of the law. Bob is the Sheriff and Don is the famous outlaw the Black Bandit. When the Black Bandit strikes, he is seen and his look-alike brother Bob arrested. Refusing to implicate his brother, Bob escapes and heads after Don.
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Durango Valley Raiders
Title: Durango Valley Raiders
Character: Sheriff Devlin
Released: August 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The Shadow and his outlaw gang have control of Durango Valley. Keene Cordner arrives, and with the help of Tanner becomes a second Shadow in his attempt to round up the gang.
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Heroes of the Hills
Title: Heroes of the Hills
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.
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Man's Country
Title: Man's Country
Character: Col. Hay (as Forest Taylor)
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.
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Outlaw Express
Title: Outlaw Express
Character: John F. Ferguson
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are being killed to prevent the Spanish Land Grant papers going to Washington for registration.
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Tell Your Children
Title: Tell Your Children
Character: Blanche's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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Desert Patrol
Title: Desert Patrol
Character: Martin Rand
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate the crime, only to stumble upon a money-laundering scheme in the works. With one eye on the killer (Ted Adams), Austin tries to unravel the racket. But keeping his true identity under wraps could be a problem. Rex Lease and Marion Weldon co-star in this classic Western from prolific director Sam Newfield.
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Western Trails
Title: Western Trails
Character: Stagecoach Shotgun Guard
Released: May 31, 1938
Type: Movie
In a remake of Dawn Trail, Bob Mason is wounded chasing the killers of his father. During his recovery, his nurse is Alice whom his friend Ben plans to marry. He eventually learns the killer was Alice's brother Rudd. But Rudd convinces Ben that Bob is taking Alice away from him. So Ben removes the bullets from Bob's gun just before Bob goes off to face Rudd.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Benson
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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The Feud Maker
Title: The Feud Maker
Character: Marshal John Kincaid
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.
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Frontier Town
Title: Frontier Town
Character: Sheriff Lane of Frontier City
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.
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The Spy Ring
Title: The Spy Ring
Character: G-2 Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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Amateur Crook
Title: Amateur Crook
Character: Jerry Cummings
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
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Courage of the West
Title: Courage of the West
Character: Government Man
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices.
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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Title: Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Character: Dorman, Owner Black Hawk Mining
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
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Where Trails Divide
Title: Where Trails Divide
Character: Councilman Gray
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
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Stars Over Arizona
Title: Stars Over Arizona
Character: Saunders
Released: September 22, 1937
Type: Movie
When the Governor gets Dawson to go after Ace Carter and his gang, Dawson gets him to release four prisoners into his custody. Arriving in town, Carter frames Dawson for murder and his stooge Judge sentences him to be hung. The four ex-convicts arrive in time to save Dawson but one of the four is a double-crosser and this means more trouble for Dawson.
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The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Title: The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Character: Norton
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang.
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Island Captives
Title: Island Captives
Character: C.B. Hudson
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.
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The Red Rope
Title: The Red Rope
Character: Parson Pete
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight each other.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Brady
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.
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Lost Ranch
Title: Lost Ranch
Character: Bart Carson
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade and his partner Happy are assigned to look into the disappearance of rancher John Carroll, who has been abducted by Carson, who wants to use his out-of-the-way ranch as a base for his smuggling operations. Complications arise as Carrol's daughter, Rita, looking for him, has an unfriendly run-in with Wade, then later is herself kidnapped by Carson.
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Arizona Days
Title: Arizona Days
Character: Harry Price
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill's traveling show. When Price has McGill's wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay. Business doesn´t go as plan.
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The Roaming Cowboy
Title: The Roaming Cowboy
Character: Evans
Released: January 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Two cowboys come upon a boy whose father has just been murdered. They promise to help find his killers.
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Pilot X
Title: Pilot X
Character: Survivor
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
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The Phantom of the Range
Title: The Phantom of the Range
Character: Brandon
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A man has died leaving a fortune somewhere on his ranch. Brandon and his cohorts think a map is hidden in a picture frame. But when they bid on the picture at the auction, newcomer Jerry Lane outbids them. He also buys the ranch so they place their housekeeper there to get the picture. And then to keep Jerry out of the way, they frame him for murder.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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Two Minutes to Play
Title: Two Minutes to Play
Character: Coach Rodney
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
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Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Title: Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Character: Lew Slater
Released: October 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Fighter "Scotty" McQuade, contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the Pacific Coast,after being duped by his manager Ted Todd and fight-promoter Lew Slater, is disgusted with the fight game and decides to go back to punching cattle. He gets a job on the ranch owned by Colonel Hayden, where he once again encounters Slater, who has a crooked deal going that will cause Hayden to lose his ranch. With the aid of the Colonel's daughter, Betty Rose, and his pal "Frozen-Face" Cohen, McQuade breaks jail on a framed charge and puts an end to Slater's crooked dealings.
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Men of the Plains
Title: Men of the Plains
Character: James Travis
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail. When things get hot, Travis has a plan of double-crossing his own men that will enable him to keep not only his gold but also the money it is insured for.
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Title: It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Character: Actor
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
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Kelly of the Secret Service
Title: Kelly of the Secret Service
Character: Dr. G. Marston
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A secret apparatus that controls bombs by remote control is stolen from a laboratory. A federal agent is assigned to recover it, and his investigation leads him to a creepy mansion that is honeycombed with secret passage ways.
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West of Nevada
Title: West of Nevada
Character: Steven Cutting
Released: July 21, 1936
Type: Movie
When a gang tries to rob Haldain, Jim and Walla Walla break it up. Haldain is carrying stuffed animals and Jim's suspicion that they are stuffed with gold is soon confirmed. The gang's boss is banker Cutting and he is after Haldain's gold. He also receives Jim's mail at his bank and changes one of Jim's letters to make it look like Jim is after the gold. His sends Haldain's daughter after her father thereby leading the gang to the secret gold field.
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Prison Shadows
Title: Prison Shadows
Character: George Miller
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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Too Much Beef
Title: Too Much Beef
Character: Hugh Stanford alias Rocky Brown
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Someone is adding beef to Rocky Brown's herds and changing the brands to make it look like he is rustling. Then he is framed for murder and jailed. Johnny Argyle who has been sent to investigate believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it and starts with hides that have been rebranded.
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A Face in the Fog
Title: A Face in the Fog
Character: Bruce Cromwell
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
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Headin' for the Rio Grande
Title: Headin' for the Rio Grande
Character: Sheriff Ed Saunders (Tex's brother)
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady (Eleanor Stewart). As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner (Warner Richmond) for killing bad guy Red Dugan (James Mason) and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo (Syd Saylor), show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows? - Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart
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Trail of Terror
Title: Trail of Terror
Character: Blake
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rejoin the gang. Muggs is the only one who knows where the stolen money is hidden and Manning is after it.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Surprised Costume Ball Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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The Courageous Avenger
Title: The Courageous Avenger
Character: Marshal Taggart
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Kirk Baxter has been sent to investigate murder and robbery involving gold shipments. Identifying a gang member by his bullets, he uses that man's horse to locate and join the gang. He learns the gang is tipped off to the shipments by a mine employee using carrier pigeons. But the next message reveals his true identity and he is made a prisoner.
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The Rider of the Law
Title: The Rider of the Law
Character: Gambler
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the brothers, mostly through their own ineptness. The remaining brothers decide to get-while-the-gettin'-is good, rob the bank and head for the Mexican border. But Bob isn't far behind.
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Between Men
Title: Between Men
Character: Lawyer Wyndham
Released: October 29, 1935
Type: Movie
When his young son is shot, John Wellington kills the culprit and flees. But his son Johnny recovers and is raised by Sir George. Some twenty years later Johnny sets out to find Sir George's missing granddaughter.
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Honeymoon Limited
Title: Honeymoon Limited
Character: Harry (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Banker Bentley
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Reporter
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Riders of Destiny
Title: Riders of Destiny
Character: James Kincaid
Released: October 10, 1933
Type: Movie
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
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Broadway to Hollywood
Title: Broadway to Hollywood
Character: Conway - Film Director
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Actor
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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No Man's Gold
Title: No Man's Gold
Character: Wat Lyman
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
A dying prospector divides the map to his gold mine into three parts: one for the outlaw who shot him, one for comedy sidekick Harry Grippe, and the third to hero Tom Stone. Tom must care for the miner's now-orphaned son and, at the same time, reach the mine before his enemies do.
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The Girl from Frisco
Title: The Girl from Frisco
Character: Terry
Released: August 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.
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The Fighting Heiress
Title: The Fighting Heiress
Character: Terry
Released: August 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Impending trouble with the sheep herders, who are encroaching on his range, causes Ace Brent, owner of vast California interests, to warn his daughter Barbara to postpone her visit to the ranch. But Barbara is made of sterner stuff, and, following a heated discussion with her admirer, John Wallace, over woman's equality with man in the business world, she declares she will disregard the warning telegram and be at her father's side should trouble come.
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The White Rosette
Title: The White Rosette
Character: Sir Errol / Thomas Eric
Released: February 5, 1916
Type: Movie
In the romantic days of the Eleventh Century the prologue of this picture shows us, Sir Errol, a victorious knight, returns to the castle of his liege lord, the Baron Edward, where he renews his vows with Lady Maud, his betrothed mistress. During Sir Errol's absence from the realm, the Baron has married Lady Elfrieda, daughter of an impecunious nobleman. Edward loves Elfrieda, but for her the marriage was solely one of expediency. She loses her heart to the handsome young knight.
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The Mender
Title: The Mender
Character: The Man
Released: December 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Parents are fighting and their little girl runs away. The worrying brings them closer together and when she returns all is well with their relationship again.
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Title: This Is the Life
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
This Is the Life is an American Christian television dramatic series. This anthology series aired in syndication from the 1950s through the 1980s. The series was originally produced by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and distributed by the International Lutheran Laymen's League. It spun off from an earlier series called The Fisher Family, with Nelson Leigh as Pastor Martin being the transitional character and in the same suburban town setting.