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Jim Davis

Jim Davis

Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis, August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) what is an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap opera, Dallas, a role which continued until he was too ill from a terminal illness to perform.

He was known as Jim Davis by the time of his first major screen role, which was opposite Bette Davis in the 1948 melodrama Winter Meeting,[3] a lavish failure for which he was lambasted in the press as being too inexperienced to play the part properly. His subsequent film career consisted of mostly B movies, many of them westerns, although he made an impression as a U.S. senator in the Warren Beatty conspiracy thriller The Parallax View.

Davis performed in numerous television series episodes in the 1950s-1970s. After years of relatively low-profile roles, Davis what is cast as family patriarch Jock Ewing on Dallas, which debuted in 1978.

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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson b ...

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The Day Time Ended (1980)

Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home. ...

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Comes a Horseman (1978)

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... ...

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Killing Stone (1978)

Returning from prison after serving ten years on trumped-up charges, a freelance writer tries to uncover the truth behind a homicide involving the son of a U.S. senator in this pilot for a prospective series. ...

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Trail of Danger (1978)

Two men taking horses to market run afoul of angry sheep herders and are hampered by a lack of water for the horses. ...

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The Choirboys (1977)

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery. ...

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Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)

Jolted out of his self-pity by a friend who teaches him to ski, a wounded Vietnam vet comes to look on his double amputation not as a "handicap" but rather "just a little inconvenience. ...

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Law of the Land (1976)

A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes. ...

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The Runaway Barge (1975)

Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot. ...

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Satan's Triangle (1975)

The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle. ...

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The Parallax View (1974)

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines. ...

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Inferno in Paradise (1974)

The tropical oasis of Honolulu is threatened by a maniacal arsonist, who strikes seemingly without pattern, or reason. This film stars Jim Davis (Jock in Dallas) and is about the Honolulu police and fire department trying to catch a deadly arsonist. Richa ...

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Deliver Us from Evil (1973)

Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $600,000. They kill him, then start fighting each other over the money. ...

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Bad Company (1972)

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants. ...

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The Honkers (1972)

An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend. ...

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The Trackers (1971)

A rancher comes home and finds that his son has been murdered and his daughter kidnapped by a bandit gang. He hires a professional tracker with a reputation for finding his quarry to help him find the gang and rescue his daughter. ...

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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster. ...

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Big Jake (1971)

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson. ...

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Monte Walsh (1970)

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, b ...

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Rio Lobo (1970)

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend. ...

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Five Bloody Graves (1969)

A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians. ...

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The Ice House (1969)

Ric Martin, an ice house worker, murders women in blind rage after a traumatic accident which occurred at his workplace. Ric's identical twin brother, police officer Fred Martin is then assigned to investigate the case. ...

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The Road Hustlers (1968)

A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters. ...

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They Ran for Their Lives (1968)

A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert. ...

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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)

Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature. ...

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Fort Utah (1967)

An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself. ...

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El Dorado (1966)

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water. ...

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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are fa ...

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Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)

A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town. ...

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Iron Angel (1964)

A seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convoy to proceed. After their success the Sarge and the crew meet up with another Lieutenant - Female nurse. ...

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Buttons and Her Beaus (1962)

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The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)

The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ran ...

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Frontier Uprising (1961)

Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians. ...

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The Magnificent Seven (1960)

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. ...

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Noose for a Gunman (1960)

Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother. ...

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Alias Jesse James (1959)

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out ...

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Lust to Kill (1958)

A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen. ...

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Flaming Frontier (1958)

Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war. ...

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Wolf Dog (1958)

A paroled convict tries to start life anew by moving with his family to a ranch, where his young son finds a puppy that is half wolf and half dog. ...

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The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958)

A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife. ...

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Raiders of Old California (1957)

A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue. ...

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The Quiet Gun (1957)

A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town. ...

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Last Stagecoach West (1957)

The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch a ...

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Apache Warrior (1957)

An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army. ...

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Monster from Green Hell (1957)

A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest ...

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The Restless Breed (1957)

Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge. ...

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The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957)

Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken for the dead man, a legendary marshal named Brennan. The town sent f ...

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Duel at Apache Wells (1957)

A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well. ...

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Guns Don't Argue (1957)

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ...

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Frontier Gambler (1956)

A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess". ...

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The Maverick Queen (1956)

Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which, like the owner bears the name of "The Maverick Queen."---a title picked up by Kit in her earlier days in W ...

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Blonde Bait (1956)

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities a ...

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The Wild Dakotas (1956)

When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savv ...

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The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)

An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border. ...

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The Vanishing American (1955)

A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo. ...

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Last of the Desperados (1955)

After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang. ...

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The Last Command (1955)

During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the p ...

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Timberjack (1955)

A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name. ...

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Hell's Outpost (1954)

A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine. ...

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The Outlaw's Daughter (1954)

Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Kate holds Dan responsible for her father's death. ...

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The Outcast (1954)

Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Pol ...

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The Big Chase (1954)

A policeman (Glenn Langan) with a pregnant wife (Adele Jergens) winds up chasing a payroll thief (Lon Chaney Jr.) into Mexico by helicopter. ...

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Jubilee Trail (1954)

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home. ...

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Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up. ...

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Ride the Man Down (1952)

After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land. ...

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The Big Sky (1952)

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with. ...

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Woman of the North Country (1952)

In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held ...

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Rose of Cimarron (1952)

A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents. ...

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The Sea Hornet (1951)

"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Su ...

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Silver Canyon (1951)

At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie. ...

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Little Big Horn (1951)

Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush. ...

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Cavalry Scout (1951)

Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The ...

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Oh! Susanna (1951)

Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed. ...

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Three Desperate Men (1951)

When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from bein ...

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California Passage (1950)

A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal. ...

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The Showdown (1950)

Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is co ...

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The Cariboo Trail (1950)

A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country. ...

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Hi-Jacked (1950)

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers. ...

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The Savage Horde (1950)

A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron. ...

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Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)

At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football. ...

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Brimstone (1949)

A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted. ...

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Hellfire (1949)

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll ...

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Red Stallion In The Rockies (1949)

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion... ...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which d ...

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Winter Meeting (1948)

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems. ...

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The Fabulous Texan (1947)

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way. ...

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Merton of the Movies (1947)

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract ...

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Gallant Bess (1946)

Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later. ...

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Up Goes Maisie (1946)

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas. ...

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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realiz ...

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Pilot #5 (1943)

A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb ...

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Stand by for Action (1942)

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas. ...

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White Cargo (1942)

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a ...

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Tennessee Johnson (1942)

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, become ...

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Keep 'Em Sailing (1942)

An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships. ...

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Northwest Rangers (1942)

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler. ...

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