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Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.

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The History of Hooterville (2005)

Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production. ...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50 ...

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Benji (1974)

Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes of their ...

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Sam Cade (1972)

Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted fo ...

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The Marshal of Madrid (1972)

A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman. ...

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Yuma (1971)

A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation. ...

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The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970)

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate th ...

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The Over the Hill Gang (1969)

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff. ...

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Angel in My Pocket (1969)

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens. ...

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Something for a Lonely Man (1968)

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad. ...

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Welcome to Hard Times (1967)

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild. ...

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Gunpoint (1966)

A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico. ...

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The Man from Button Willow (1965)

In 1869, Justin Eagle lives on his ranch called "The Eagle's Nest" near the town of Button Willow, California. In addition to being a rancher, Juston is a trouble-shooter for the U. S. Government which calls for him to act as an undercover operative and th ...

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The Rounders (1965)

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wage ...

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Move Over, Darling (1963)

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably ...

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McLintock! (1963)

Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native ...

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A Ticklish Affair (1963)

A young widow Amy Martin with three young boys is investigated by the Navy after one of her children inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon and crew observe the signal from the ...

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Donovan's Reef (1963)

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met. ...

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Flashing Spikes (1962)

An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phenom. The younger player is at first tainted by his association with the oldtimer, but eventually the truth about the scandal is revealed. ...

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Ride the High Country (1962)

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. ...

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The Comancheros (1961)

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. ...

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Devil's Partner (1961)

An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival. ...

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Tammy Tell Me True (1961)

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This film introduces both a new theme song, "Tammy Tell Me True", and t ...

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Chartroose Caboose (1960)

Doris and Dub are a young couple with the usual ups and down life. They unexpectedly find friendship and good advice from curmudgeonly Woody Watts, a railroad man who was recently forced to retire. ...

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Cimarron (1960)

The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889. ...

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Four Fast Guns (1960)

A loner (James Craig) on the lam wanders into an Old West town run by a disabled villain that no one wants to fight. ...

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Stump Run (1959)

Two Moonshiners find love and laughs in the Oregon outskirts. Featuring a medley of comic characters. ...

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Hound-Dog Man (1959)

A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother. The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint, and hi ...

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Edge of Eternity (1959)

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and hel ...

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It Started with a Kiss (1959)

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic. ...

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King of the Wild Stallions (1959)

A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch. ...

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The Sheepman (1958)

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to r ...

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Day of the Badman (1958)

Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee. ...

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Spoilers of the Forest (1957)

Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persu ...

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Come Next Spring (1956)

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds hi ...

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Wichita (1955)

Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to ...

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The Lonesome Trail (1955)

Back from the Indian wars, a cowboy wages a single-handed war against a land baron and his henchmen. After his shooting hand is disabled, he masters the bow and arrow to take on the gang one arrow at a time! ...

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The Silver Star (1955)

A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative. ...

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Rage at Dawn (1955)

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. ...

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Destry (1954)

Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger. ...

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Dawn at Socorro (1954)

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. ...

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Human Desire (1954)

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997. ...

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Make Haste to Live (1954)

A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker. ...

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She Couldn't Say No (1954)

An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town. ...

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Shane (1953)

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act. ...

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It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over ...

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Toughest Man in Arizona (1952)

Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers ...

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Wild Stallion (1952)

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier. ...

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The Big Trees (1952)

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...bu ...

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Flaming Feather (1952)

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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Silver City (1951)

Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators. ...

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Cave of Outlaws (1951)

Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail. ...

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Rawhide (1951)

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts. ...

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The Great Missouri Raid (1951)

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare. ...

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Devil's Doorway (1950)

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people. ...

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The Big Hangover (1950)

A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol. ...

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Cargo to Capetown (1950)

A sailor and his captain fight over a beautiful girl. ...

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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. ...

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Any Number Can Play (1949)

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career an ...

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Lust for Gold (1949)

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband. ...

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Red Canyon (1949)

A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western. ...

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The Walking Hills (1949)

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley. ...

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The Untamed Breed (1948)

A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. ...

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The Man from Colorado (1948)

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperat ...

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Coroner Creek (1948)

A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death. ...

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Best Man Wins (1948)

Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage. ...

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Adventures in Silverado (1948)

Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on ...

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The Black Arrow (1948)

A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and det ...

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The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948)

The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem. ...

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The Swordsman (1948)

Young lovers brings two fighting clans together. ...

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Framed (1947)

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert. ...

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The Sea of Grass (1947)

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals. ...

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If I'm Lucky (1946)

Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singe ...

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Renegades (1946)

The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son. ...

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The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

A PI investigates a priest's murder. ...

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Perilous Holiday (1946)

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley. ...

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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)

Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke. ...

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Abilene Town (1946)

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mi ...

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The Fighting Guardsman (1945)

A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood. ...

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Strange Affair (1944)

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can ...

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The Impatient Years (1944)

Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fif ...

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Bride by Mistake (1944)

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of ...

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Buffalo Bill (1944)

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show. ...

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Destroyer (1943)

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Ch ...

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. ...

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The Desperadoes (1943)

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn ...

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City Without Men (1943)

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates. ...

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The Talk of the Town (1942)

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher. ...

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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly. ...

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You Belong to Me (1941)

A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients. ...

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Texas (1941)

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet u ...

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The Richest Man in Town (1941)

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one. ...

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Her First Beau (1941)

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indif ...

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Penny Serenade (1941)

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood. ...

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Arizona (1940)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson ...

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When the Daltons Rode (1940)

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 Dal ...

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The Sea Hawk (1940)

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures. ...

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Escape to Glory (1940)

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is a ...

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Tear Gas Squad (1940)

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman. ...

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Too Many Husbands (1940)

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband. ...

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My Son Is Guilty (1939)

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring. ...

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