Across the Plains 1939 N/R, 54 min. Genre: Western
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet Cast: Addison Randall, Frank Yaconelli, Joyce Bryant, Hal Price, Dennis Moore, Glenn Strange, Bob Card, Bud Osborne, Monte Rawlins, Wylie Grant, Iron Eyes Cody, Buddy Cox, Texi-Ray Cox
Outlaws attack a wagon train, and the parents of young brothers Jack (Buddy Cox) and Jimmy (Texi-Ray Cox) are killed. Jack is adopted by Indians, and Jimmy is kidnapped by the outlaws. They grow up apart but are reunited when Jimmy, now known as the Kansas Kid (Dennis Moore), leads his outlaw gang in an ambush of Jeff (Glenn Strange) and his daughter Mary's (Joyce Bryant) wagon train. Jack, now known as Cherokee (Addison Randall) tries to lead them to safety, and now the gang sets out to eliminate Cherokee. They kidnap Buckskin (Hal Price) who has teamed up with Cherokee, and he overhears them talking about killing the Kid's parents. Cherokee rescues Buckskin, and he tells Cherokee the truth about his brother. The gang attacks, but the brothers bond together in battling the outlaws. Jimmy is mortally wounded while avenging his parents' death, but Jack's future looks brighter, and he asks Mary to marry him.
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Arizona Round-Up 1942 N/R Genre: Western
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey Cast: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, Sugar Dawn, Jack Ingram, Hope Blackwood, Steve Clark, Tom Seidel, Nick Moro, Hal Price, I. Stanford Jolley, Fred Hoose, James Sheridan, Gene Alsace, Horace B. Carpenter, Ed Cassidy
Rancher Mike O'Day (Steve Clark) hires government agent Tom Kenyon (Tom Keene) and his sidekick Pierre La Farge (Frank Yaconelli) to help with the problem of a coalition between railroad owner Ed Spencer (I. Stanford Jolley) and rancher Ted Greenway (Hal Price). They want to charge the neighboring ranchers exorbitant prices to ship their horses and cattle as the means of forcing them out of the cattle business. Kenyon comes up with a plan to stop Spencer and Greenway, but will it work?
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A Night at the Opera 1935 N/R, 96 min. Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, Sig Ruman, Walter Woolf King, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Gino Corrado, Frank Yaconelli, Billy Gilbert, Al Bridge, Jonathan Hale
When the Marx Brothers become part of the hoity-toity opera world, comedy abounds in this Marx Brothers' classic. In an attempt to reunite with his lover Rosa (Kitty Carlisle), Ricardo (Allan Jones) joins up with Fiorello and Tomasso (Chico Marx and Harpo Marx) to stow away on a ship headed for New York. They are prepared to pull out all stops to get Ricardo a job as the leading tenor in the New York Opera Company where Rosa is starring as the leading lady. They arrive in New York, but the authorities, who want to catch the stowaways, are on their trail, and they join up with Otis P. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) in their attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities.
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Torrid Zone 1940 N/R, 87 min. Genre: Action / Comedy / Adventure
Director: William Keighley Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, George Tobias, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan, George Reeves, Victor Kilian, Frank Puglia, Grady Sutton, John Ridgely, Paul Porcasi, Frank Yaconelli, Dick Botiller
Central American planter Nick Butler (James Cagney) is a plantation foreman working for Baldwin Fruit Company executive Steve Case (Pat O'Brien). Butler is preparing to head back to Chicago and leave his plantation job behind, but he encounters problems from Case who wants O'Brien to work on another plantation. Butler does agree and goes to the plantation where problems lie ahead in the form of Gloria (Helen Vinson) who is the wife of former foreman Bob Anderson (Jerome Cowan), sexy nightclub singer Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), and Latino bandits led by Rosario "Rosie" La Mata (George Tobias).
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Wild Horse Mesa 1947 N/R, 61 min. Genre: Western
Director: Wallace Grissell Cast: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Tom Keene, Jason Robards Sr., Tony Barrett, Harry Woods, William Gould, Robert Bray, Dick Foote, Frank Yaconelli
Dave (Tim Holt) and sidekick Chito (Richard Martin) take on the job of rounding up wild mustangs for Pop Melbern (Jason Robards Sr.). When the dastardly Jay (Harry Woods) kills Pop and takes the horses, Dave and Chito take off–hot on his trail. Pop's daughter Sue (Nan Leslie) is the love interest in this tale based on a Zane Grey story.
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| 1. Across the Plains (1939)
2. Arizona Round-Up (1942)
3. A Night at the Opera (1935)
4. Torrid Zone (1940)
5. Wild Horse Mesa (1947)
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