Advance to the Rear 1964  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus, Joan Blondell, Andrew Prine, Alan Hale Jr., Whit Bissell, Michael Pate, Preston Foster
Captain Jared Heath leads a group of inept soldiers who encounter espionage and the loss of their gold shipment, in this above average comedy.
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Angels' Brigade 1979  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Angels' Revenge
Director: Greydon Clark
Cast: Jack Palance, Neville Brand, Jim Backus, Peter Lawford, Pat Buttram, Alan Hale Jr., Kieu Chinh, Arthur Godfrey, Silvia Anderson, Darby Hinton
Taking matters into their own hands, citizens go after drug pushers in this action-filled, but mindless, movie.
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Battle Hymn 1957  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr., James Edwards, Carl Benton Reid, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Bartlett Robinson
Feeling he has lost his calling to the ministry, World War II pilot Col. Dean Hess (Rock Hudson) re-enlists and is stationed in Korea where he trains soldiers and, in the process, sets up a large orphanage during the Korean conflict. Based on a true story.
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The Big Trees 1952 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Western
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr., Roy Roberts, Ellen Corby, Charles Meredith, Harry Cording, Lane Chandler, Frank Hagney, William Challee
Set around 1900, this remake of "Valley of the Giants" features Kirk Douglas as greedy lumberjack Jim Fallon who wants to use California's Redwood Forest for his own profit. Confronted by Quaker environmentalists, Fallon is finally convinced to save the trees.
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The Blazing Sun 1950  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English
Cast: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Kenne Duncan, Alan Hale Jr., Gregg Barton, Edward Norris, Tom London, Steve Darrell
Set in the current time, once again Gene Autry and his sidekick Pat Buttram are on the trail of bank robbers.
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas 1953 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Clarke, Stuart Randall, James Seay, Philip Van Zandt, Shepard Menken, Douglass Dumbrille, Anthony Eustrel, William Cottrell, Henry Rowland
The legend of Captain John Smith and Indian princess Pocahontas is the theme of this story in which Pocahontas saves Smith's life and continues through their ill-fated romantic future in the colony of Jamestown.
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The Crawling Hand 1963  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Cast: Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Sirry Steffen, Arline Judge, Alan Hale Jr., Richard Arlen, Allison Hayes, Tristram Coffin, Ross Elliott
A few (unintended) laughs keep this from being a total BOMB as a spacecraft explodes while returning to Earth. The hand of the astronaut falls to the ground where it is picked up by a medical student. Before long he realizes that the hand is possessed by an evil alien. Rip-off of "The Beast with Five Fingers."
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Eagle Squadron 1942 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson, Jon Hall, Gladys Cooper, Alan Hale Jr., Rhys Williams
Great aerial shots highlight this film about Americans who volunteered to join the RAF and fight Nazis before America entered the war.
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The Fifth Musketeer 1979 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Beau Bridges, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Cornel Wilde, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale Jr., Jose Ferrer, Olivia de Havilland, Rex Harrison, Ian McShane
This is a run-of-the-mill retelling of "The Man in the Iron Mask." The story is about King Louis XIV (Beau Bridges) and his twin brother Philippe (Beau Bridges) who were separated at birth. Philippe was raised by D'Artagnan (Cornel Wilde) and the Three Musketeers: Aramis (Lloyd Bridges), Porthos (Alan Hale Jr.), and Althos (Jose Ferrer).
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The Giant Spider Invasion 1975  PG, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Bill Rebane
Cast: Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Steve Brodie, Alan Hale Jr., Diane Lee Hart, Bill Williams, Christiane Schmidtmer, Kevin Brodie, Tain Bodkin, Paul Bentzen, J. Stewart Taylor, William W. Gillett Jr., David B. Hoff
This terrible film is a throwback to the monster flicks of the 1950s. A blast rocks the farmlands in Wisconsin, which turns out to be a black hole that lets beings from a parallel universe reach Earth. The being that causes the trouble is a giant spider, which controls the earthly spiders and eats its way through the rural area.
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The Gunfighter 1950  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier, Verna Felton, Ellen Corby, Richard Jaeckel, Alan Hale Jr., Anthony Ross, Mae Marsh, Cliff Clark, James Millican, Harry Harvey
Gunfighter Jimmie Ringo (Gregory Peck) wants to settle down and rekindle the love he and his wife, Peggy (Helen Westcott), once shared. While waiting for Peggy in a saloon, Ringo learns that he cannot escape his past.
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Hang 'Em High 1968 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Ted Post
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, James MacArthur, Arlene Golonka, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Ruth White, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw, Alan Hale Jr., James Westerfield, L.Q. Jones, Joseph Sirola
Rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is accosted by nine men, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley), and accused of stealing his neighbor's cattle and killing him. They hang Cooper and leave him for dead, but he is rescued by Deputy U.S. Marshal Bliss (Ben Johnson) and later cleared by Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle). Now a free man, Cooper wants revenge and takes the law into his own hands and sets off to administer his own form of justice on the men who tried to hang him.
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island 1981 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Baldwin
Cast: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Connie Forslund, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Scatman Crothers, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain
This is the third Gilligan TV movie that constituted a comeback for the Gilligan crew still stuck on the island. They get a visit from the Harlem Globetrotters, a mad scientist, and basketballing robots.
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Home Town Story 1951 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Pierson
Cast: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Brown, Melinda Plowman, Glenn Tryon, Byron Foulger, Griff Barnett
After losing an election, defeated politician Blake Washburn (Jeffrey Lynn) is sure that his liberal stance offended businessmen, and he was ousted because of his anti-capitalist stand. To solve his problem, Washburn takes over his uncle's newspaper in order to deal with his opponents.
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The Indian Fighter 1955  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Abel, Walter Matthau, Lon Chaney Jr., Diana Douglas, Eduard Franz, Alan Hale Jr., Elisha Cook Jr., William Phipps
The Sioux are understandably upset with settlers taking over their land and stealing their gold. Enter a wagon train, with its leader Johnny Hawks (Kirk Douglas), winding its way through dangerous Sioux territory.
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It Happens Every Spring 1949 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins, Alan Hale Jr., Jessie Royce Landis, Gene Evans, Edward Keane
What happens every spring is, of course, baseball season. This is the story of a college professor, Vernon Simpson (Ray Milland), who invents a formula that enables a ball to avoid bats–and the fun begins.
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The Lady Takes a Flyer 1958 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: Lana Turner, Richard Denning, Jeff Chandler, Andra Martin, Chuck Connors, Reta Shaw, Alan Hale Jr., Jerry Paris, Nestor Paiva
Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler are strong-willed pilots who fall in love, marry, and have problems combining their professional and personal lives.
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A Man Alone 1955 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Milland
Cast: Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Alan Hale Jr., Arthur Space, Douglas Spencer, Thomas Browne Henry, Grandon Rhodes
Ray Milland made his directorial debut and also starred in this film about an innocent man, Wes Steele, who finds relative safety in the quarantined home of Nadine Corrigan (Mary Murphy) who helps him hide from a lynch mob.
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Many Rivers to Cross 1955 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness, Alan Hale Jr., John Hudson, Rhys Williams, Josephine Hutchinson, Sig Ruman, Rosemary DeCamp, Abel Fernandez, Russell Johnson, Ralph Moody
Bushrod Gentry (Robert Taylor) is a trapper in the 18th century, and Mary Cherne (Eleanor Parker) is determined to gain his love. He can't escape her persistent pursuit, and a shotgun wedding ensues. But, Bushrod takes off to the North Country, and Mary is not far behind. They continue to rescue each other in this funny film, but the treatment of the Native Americans in that era is not acceptable today. Good song: "The Higher Up the Berry Tree, the Sweeter Grow the Berries."
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The North Avenue Irregulars 1979 G, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Bilson
Cast: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Cloris Leachman, Patsy Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Alan Hale Jr., Ruth Buzzi, Michael Constantine
A minister and his group of church ladies clean up their town after racketeers set up their illegal business. Disney.
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island 1978 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Cast: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Judith Baldwin, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Vincent Schiavelli, Art LaFleur, Norman Bartold, Mary Gregory
After all those years, the crew of the Minnow is rescued after the Professor (Russell Johnson) uses part of a barometer from a Russian satellite that had crashed on the island. The barometer indicates that a huge wave will sweep the island, so Gilligan (Bob Denver) and crew prepare to ride it off the island and out to sea. The plan works, after a rescue by a Navy helicopter, and they arrive in Hawaii. Civilization has changed, and it is not easy to adjust–especially with those Russian spies looking for the barometer.
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Riders in the Sky 1949 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English
Cast: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Pat Buttram, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston, Alan Hale Jr., Dennis Moore, Kenne Duncan, Steve Darrell, Tom London
Gene Autry's friend Ralph (Steve Darrell) is in jail, framed for murder by the town's boss (Robert Livingston). Gene saves the day and wins the love of Ralph's daughter Anne (Gloria Henry) to boot. 1 User Review
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Rim of the Canyon 1949 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English
Cast: Gene Autry, Alan Hale Jr., Thurston Hall, Nan Leslie, Jock Mahoney, Denver Pyle, Francis McDonald, Clem Bevans, Walter Sande, Amelita Ward
Gene's (Gene Autry) father jailed the robbers. Now, the robbers are out of jail and return to a ghost town where the loot was left. Gene must finish his dad's job.
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Rogue Cop 1954 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis, Alan Hale Jr., Robert F. Simon, Robert Ellenstein, Peter Brocco, Anthony Ross
Undercover cop Christopher Kelvaney (Robert Taylor) seeks the killers of his brother. Well made flick.
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The Sea Chase 1955 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Farrow
Cast: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Paul Fix, Alan Hale Jr., John Qualen, Claude Akins
This World War II drama stars John Wayne as a German sea captain who is bound for Germany and trying to elude British Naval Forces during the voyage home.
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Silver Lode 1954 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: John Payne, Dan Duryea, Lizabeth Scott, Dolores Moran, Emile Meyer, Harry Carey Jr., Morris Ankrum, John Hudson, Robert Warwick, Alan Hale Jr.
The townsfolk of Silver Lode are preparing for the Fourth of July festivities, and Dan Ballard (John Payne) is preparing for his wedding to Rose (Lizabeth Scott) when four strangers, led by Ned McCarthy (Dan Duryea), ride into town. Ned claims to be a U.S. Marshal and that he is in town to arrest Dan for murder and robbery. Dan must prove his innocence, but his "friends" in town desert him in his time of need. Good Technicolor scenery and direction make this "High Noon"-style film enjoyable. It is also thought to be a statement concerning "McCarthyism," the Communist witch-hunt conducted by Senator Joe McCarthy during this time period that affected the movie industry.
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Springfield Rifle 1952 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr., Philip Carey, Martin Milner, Alan Hale Jr., James Millican, Fess Parker
Major "Lex" Kearney (Gary Cooper) develops a scheme in which he poses as a traitor to uncover espionage involving the supply of needed horses for the Union during the Civil War.
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Terror Night 1987 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Bloody Movie
Director: Andre De Toth, Nick Marino
Cast: John Ireland, Cameron Mitchell, Aldo Ray, Alan Hale Jr., Dan Haggerty, Michelle Bauer, Jay Richardson, William Butler, John Wildman, Jimi Elwell
Former movie stars visit the mansion of a silent movie star and each meets a gruesome death at the hands of a killer who takes on one of the characters that each visitor played. Interesting only to see several well-known B-movie stars.
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The True Story of Jesse James 1957 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The James Brothers
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Hale Jr., Alan Baxter, John Carradine, Rachel Stephens, Barney Phillips, Biff Elliot
Embittered by the changes taking place after the Civil War, the James brothers (Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter) turn to a life of crime to "make a living." Before long, they are in too deep and cannot escape their lifestyle.
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Up Periscope 1959 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr., Carleton Carpenter, Frank Gifford, William Leslie, Richard Bakalyan, Edd Byrnes, Sean Garrison
Navy frogman Lt. Ken Braden (James Garner) is on a mission to sneak onto a little Japanese-held island and steal a secret code book. But to get there he must travel on a submarine commanded by a captain (Edmond O'Brien) that he just can't seem to get along with. Average World War II fare.
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Wait Til the Sun Shines, Nellie 1952 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: David Wayne, Jean Peters, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Dekker, Alan Hale Jr., Joyce Mackenzie, Helene Stanley, Richard Karlan, Merry Anders, Warren Stevens
Set in the early 1900s, barber Ben Halen (David Wayne) is a typical American male in a typical small town of that era who strives to protect his wife Nellie from the cold cruel world.
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The West Point Story 1950 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Alan Hale Jr., Roland Winters, Wilton Graff, Jerome Cowan, Frank Ferguson
After agreeing to direct the annual West Point cadet revue, Elwin Bixby (James Cagney) learns what it means to live life on the Hudson as a West Point cadet.
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 Young at Heart 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Alan Hale Jr., Frank Ferguson, Elisabeth Fraser, Lonny Chapman
Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) finds love and romance when Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) comes to her small town to help in writing a musical.
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| 1. Advance to the Rear (1964)
2. Angels' Brigade (1979)
aka: Angels' Revenge
3. Battle Hymn (1957)
4. The Big Trees (1952)
5. The Blazing Sun (1950)
6. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
7. The Crawling Hand (1963)
8. Eagle Squadron (1942)
9. The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
10. The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
11. The Gunfighter (1950)
12. Hang 'Em High (1968)
13. The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)
14. Home Town Story (1951)
15. The Indian Fighter (1955)
16. It Happens Every Spring (1949)
17. The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
18. A Man Alone (1955)
19. Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
20. The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
21. Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
22. Riders in the Sky (1949)
23. Rim of the Canyon (1949)
24. Rogue Cop (1954)
25. The Sea Chase (1955)
26. Silver Lode (1954)
27. Springfield Rifle (1952)
28. Terror Night (1987)
aka: Bloody Movie
29. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
aka: The James Brothers
30. Up Periscope (1959)
31. Wait Til the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
32. The West Point Story (1950)
33. Young at Heart (1954)
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