Bluebeard 1944 N/R, 73 min. Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel, Iris Adrian, George Pembroke, Teala Loring, Sonia Sorel, Henry Kolker, Emmett Lynn, Patti McCarty, Frank Darien, George Irving
John Carradine is at his spooky best as he plays deranged killer Gaston Morel, a deranged killer of beautiful women. Morel is an artist who picks up models, paints their pictures, and then kills them. He meets his match in a clever young woman (Jean Parker) who learns about Morel's crimes and is determined to bring him to justice.
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Code of the West 1947 N/R, 57 min. Genre: Western
Director: William Berke Cast: James Warren, Debra Alden, John Laurenz, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr, Rita Lynn, Robert Clarke, Harry Woods, Carol Forman, Harry Harvey, Phil Warren, Emmett Lynn, Budd Buster, Jason Robards Sr.
Villainous Boyd Carter (Raymond Burr), knowing that the railroad will be coming through the area, attempts to bully the homesteaders into leaving. But along comes Bob Wade (James Warren) in the nick of time to save the day. A fun movie based on a Zane Grey novel.
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Conquest of Cheyenne 1946 N/R, 55 min. Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen Cast: Bill Elliott, Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart, Jay Kirby, Milton Kibbee, Tom London, Emmett Lynn, Kenne Duncan, George Sherwood, Jack Kirk, Tom Chatterton
There's oil on Cheyenne's (Peggy Stewart) ranch, and a well is built to get it. But crooked banker Tuttle (Milton Kibbee) wants the oil for himself and intends on foreclosing–after he burns down the well. He didn't plan on Red Ryder (Bill Elliott) riding to the rescue. Bill Elliott's last appearance as Red Ryder, but the series continued with Allan 'Rocky' Lane in the lead role.
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter 1950 N/R, 60 min. Genre: Western
Director: Lewis D. Collins Cast: Jim Bannon, Don Reynolds, Don Haggerty, John Hart, Emmett Lynn, Karen Randle, Marin Sais, Marshall Reed, Forrest Taylor, Lou Nova, Bud Osborne, Steve Clark
In this fourth, and final, film starring Jim Bannon as Red Ryder, Red and sidekick Little Beaver (Don Kay Reynolds), along with Steve (Don Haggerty) who had saved Red's life, take on a crooked fight promoter while rooting out the killer of Red's father.
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The Fighting Redhead 1949 N/R, 55 min. Genre: Western
Director: Lewis D. Collins Cast: Jim Bannon, Don Reynolds, Emmett Lynn, Marin Sais, John Hart, Peggy Stewart, Lane Bradford, Forrest Taylor, Lee Roberts, Bob Duncan, Sandy Sanders, Bill Hammond
A call for help brings Red Ryder (Jim Bannon) and sidekick Little Beaver (Don Kay Reynolds) to town to take care of a murdering gang of cattle rustlers.
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Gangster's Den 1945 N/R, 55 min. Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Sydney Logan, Charles King, Emmett Lynn, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard, Ed Cassidy, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Michael Owen, Patricia Knox
Crooked lawyer Horace Black (I. Stanford Jolley) intends to take over a saloon and a ranch, but Billy and Fuzzy (Buster Crabbe and Al St. John) are there to stop the bad man and his henchmen.
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Grand Canyon Trail 1948 N/R, 67 min. Genre: Western
Director: William Witney Cast: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Robert Livingston, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, James Finlayson, Charles Coleman, Ken Terrell, Foy Willing, Tommy Coats, Zon Murray
Thanks to hayseed "Cookie" Bullfincher (Andy Devine), Roy Rogers and friends have invested in a silver mine, and now they are being told that the mine is worthless. Meanwhile, crooked mining engineer Bill Regan (Robert Livingston) suspects that there is silver in the mine and is determined to get the silver for himself. Will the bad guys win out? Not with Roy around!
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Hollywood and Vine 1945 N/R, 59 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis Cast: James Ellison, Wanda McKay, June Clyde, Ralph Morgan, Franklin Pangborn, Leon Belasco, Emmett Lynn, Vera Lewis, Robert Greig, Charles Williams, Ray Whitley, Dewey Robinson
This amusing parody on the film industry is set in a drugstore at Hollywood and Vine where screenwriter Larry Winters (James Ellison) has come to research his next story.
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The Law Rides Again 1943 N/R, 56 min. Genre: Western
Director: Alan James Cast: Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Jack La Rue, Betty Miles, Emmett Lynn, Kenneth Harlan, Chief Thundercloud, Bryant Washburn, John Bridges, Kenne Duncan, Roy Brent, Hank Bell
Government agents Ken and Hoot (Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson), the "Trail Blazers," track down a crooked Indian agent who is cheating the local tribe.
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Nevada 1944 N/R, 62 min. Genre: Western
Director: Edward Killy Cast: Robert Mitchum, Anne Jeffreys, Nancy Gates, Harry Woods, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Russell Hopton, Craig Reynolds, Virginia Belmont, Wheaton Chambers, Emmett Lynn, Larry Wheat
This Zane Grey Western is the story of a cowboy (Robert Mitchum) who finds love and becomes a hero when he fights for law and order.
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Oregon Trail Scouts 1947 N/R, 58 min. Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen Cast: Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, Edmund Cobb, Earle Hodgins, Ed Cassidy, Frank Lackteen, Jack Kirk
This Red Ryder (Allan Lane) entry tells the story of how Little Beaver (Robert Blake) became Red Ryder's sidekick. Red Ryder makes a treaty with the Indians to trap Beaver and Otter, but the dastardly fur thief Bill (Roy Barcroft) has other plans. Taking the Chief's grandson hostage, he intends to gain trapping rights. But Red Ryder comes to the rescue and the grandson, Little Beaver, remains with our hero.
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Ring of Fear 1954 N/R, 92 min. Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: James Edward Grant, William A. Wellman Cast: Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien, Sean McClory, Marian Carr, John Bromfield, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Emmett Lynn, Jack Stang, Kenneth Tobey, Kathy Cline
Clyde Beatty stars as himself as the Clyde Beatty traveling circus is the target of a homicidal maniac. When police have problems solving the case, they call in mystery writer Mickey Spillane (playing himself) in this pop culture film of the era.
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Stagecoach to Denver 1946 N/R, 56 min. Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen Cast: Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roy Barcroft, Peggy Stewart, Emmett Lynn, Ted Adams, Edmund Cobb, Tom Chatterton, Bobby Hyatt, George Chesebro, Ed Cassidy
Stagecoach line owner Big Boy Lambert (Roy Barcroft) orders one of his stagecoaches (carrying the Land Commisioner) wrecked, killing the Commissioner. Lambert intends to have him replaced with a commissioner of his liking who will help in his land-grabbing scheme. But Red Ryder (Allan Lane) is about to be heard from. Better than the average Western.
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Tomorrow We Live 1942 N/R, 66 min. Genre: Action / Drama aka: At Dawn We Die
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Jean Parker, Emmett Lynn, William(2) Marshall, Rose Anne Stevens, Ray Miller, Frank Hagney, Rex Lease, Jack Ingram, Jane Hale
A gangster, The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez), blackmails ex-con "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) into storing his mass of stolen tires. But, when "Pop's" daughter, Julie (Jean Parker), learns what is happening, she tries to save her father. Her efforts fail after a rival gang beats up The Ghost. The Ghost thinks that "Pop" Bronson is responsible and exacts revenge by shooting him in front of Julie.
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Wagon Wheels Westward 1945 N/R, 56 min. Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen Cast: Bill Elliott, Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, Dick Curtis, Jay Kirby, George J. Lewis, Tom London, Kenne Duncan, George Chesebro
Red Ryder (Bill Elliott) and sidekick Little Beaver (Robert Blake) come to the aid of Red's aunt (Alice Fleming) by leading a wagon train with settlers to a small town. What they don't know is that the town has been evacuated by the citizens after hearing of a gold strike, and in the place of the town's officials a gang has set up shop awaiting the arrival of the settlers in order to get their money.
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| 1. Bluebeard (1944)
2. Both Barrels Blazing (1944)
3. Code of the West (1947)
4. Conquest of Cheyenne (1946)
5. Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1950)
6. The Fighting Redhead (1949)
7. Gangster's Den (1945)
8. Grand Canyon Trail (1948)
9. Hollywood and Vine (1945)
10. The Law Rides Again (1943)
11. Nevada (1944)
12. Oregon Trail Scouts (1947)
13. Ring of Fear (1954)
14. Stagecoach to Denver (1946)
15. Tomorrow We Live (1942) aka: At Dawn We Die
16. Wagon Wheels Westward (1945)
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