The Baron of Arizona 1950  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi, Vladimir Sokoloff, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler Jr., Tristram Coffin, Robin Short, Barbara Woodell
Nineteenth-century entrepreneur James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) has big plans to ignore Spanish land grants and purchase Arizona for his own selfish interests.
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa 1942  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, William Farnum, Rex Lease, Helen Deverell, Hugh Prosser, Robert Barron, Michael Vallon, Henry Hall, Fred Kohler Jr., Frank Hagney, Mickey Simpson
Judge Barnes (William Farnum) and his cronies in Hangtown Mesa fear that the telegraph being built will cause them to lose power. After they have Betty's (Helen Deverell) uncle, who managed the telegraph project, killed, Betty continues the project. Luckily for her, Steve (Johnny Mack Brown) comes to her rescue as the bad guys intend to stop her work.
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer 1956  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Albert C. Gannaway, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs, Damian O'Flynn, Jacqueline Evans, Nancy Rodman, Eduardo Noriega, Fred Kohler Jr., Claudio Brook
This low-budget biography of Daniel Boone (Bruce Bennett) is entertaining and educational as it tells the story of Boone's pioneering efforts into Kentucky.
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The Gay Amigo 1949 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Wallace Fox
Cast: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Armida, Joe Sawyer, Walter Baldwin, Fred Kohler Jr., Kenneth MacDonald, George DeNormand, Clayton Moore, Sam Flint, Fred Crane, Bud Osborne
A U.S. Army patrol mistakes Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carillo) for members of a gang of bandits. The Captain (Kenneth MacDonald) lets them go, believing that they will lead the Army to the rest of the gang. Pancho and Cisco have their own plans: they pose as crooks and catch the real bandits.
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Loaded Pistols 1948 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English
Cast: Gene Autry, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills, Jack Holt, Russell Arms, Robert Shayne, Vince Barnett, Leon Weaver, Fred Kohler Jr., Clem Bevans
The real killers must be caught so the youngster wrongfully accused of the murder can be freed, and Gene Autry is just the man to do it.
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War 1944 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Richard Lane, Robert Armstrong, Fred Kohler Jr., Robert Mitchum, Richard Gaines, Walter Baldwin
Middle-aged bank clerk Wilbert Winkle (Edward G. Robinson) is drafted into the Army in World War II. This is a clever comedy that benefits from Robinson's normal good performance as he is transformed.
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Nevada City 1941 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Musical / Romance
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, George Cleveland, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler Jr., Pierre Watkin, Joseph Crehan, Jack Ingram, Yakima Canutt, Hank Bell, Rex Lease, Syd Saylor, Fred Burns, Jack Kirk
In the early 1860s, Jeff and Gabby (Roy Rogers and George "Gabby" Hayes) are stagecoach drivers when the railroad is coming to the West. Their boss, Mark Benton (Joseph Crehan), is concerned that the railroad will take over and is feuding with Hank Liddell (George Cleveland) who owns the railroad. Jeff and Gabby try to get Benton and Liddell to reconcile but are not successful. When financier Amos Norton (Pierre Watkin) hires outlaw Black Bart (Fred Kohler Jr.) to raid both the stagecoaches and the railroads, matters worsen–until Liddell and Benton finally work together, and Gabby and Jeff stop the robberies.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, John Carradine, Harry Carey, Arthur Byron, Ernest Whitman, Joyce Kay, Paul Fix, Fred Kohler Jr., Francis McDonald, O.P. Heggie, Francis Ford
This film is based on the true experience of Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) who was sentenced to life imprisonment because he set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) during Booth's escape attempt following his assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Renegades 1930 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper, C. Henry Gordon, Bela Lugosi, Colin Chase, Noah Beery Jr., Claire Du Brey, Victory Jory, Edwards Davis, Fred Kohler Jr., Noble Johnson, Frank Lackteen
Four volunteers–Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon), and Biloxi (George Cooper)–leave their unit in the French Foreign Legion. They join forces with a beautiful spy, Eleanore (Myrna Loy), which is a decision that leads to tragic consequences.
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Spoilers of the Plains 1951 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Grant Withers, William Forrest, Don Haggerty, House Peters Jr., George Meeker, Fred Kohler Jr., Keith Richards
This doesn't sound too much like a Western when you learn that we're talking about spies, rocket-launchings, and satellites as being a part of the tale. In any event, Roy Rogers fights it out with the bad guys and comes away the hero.
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Terror in a Texas Town 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Gene Martin, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Sheb Wooley, Ann Varela, Fred Kohler Jr., Steve Mitchell, Marilee Earle, Tyler McVey
Director Lewis made a career of making something good with a low budget, and this unusual Western is a case in point. Swedish whaler George Hansen (Sterling Hayden) returns home to find that his father has been killed on the orders of greedy Ed McNeil (Sebastian Cabot) who is trying to force landowners to sell their land to him so he can convert the land into oil wells. George must take matters into his own hands, and the inevitable showdown occurs–but is that weapon of George's a harpoon?
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Twilight in the Sierras 1950  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Russ Vincent, George Meeker, Fred Kohler Jr., Edward Keane, House Peters Jr., Pierce Lyden
An ex-counterfeiter has been kidnapped, and U.S. Marshal Roy Rogers is out after the counterfeiting gang who did it. Dale Evans is there to provide songs and romance.
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Up in Mabel's Room 1944 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Marjorie Reynolds, Gail Patrick, Mischa Auer, Charlotte Greenwood, Lee Bowman, John Hubbard, Binnie Barnes, Janet Lambert, Fred Kohler Jr.
Based on a popular stage play, this farce tells of the tale of a young man (Dennis O'Keefe) who attempts to retrieve a "naughty" gift he had innocently given a young woman (Gail Patrick) without his wife (Marjorie Reynolds) or his friend (Lee Bowman) knowing of it. Quite funny, and remade with the same director and star the following year as "Getting Gertie's Garter."
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| 1. The Baron of Arizona (1950)
2. Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942)
3. Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
4. The Gay Amigo (1949)
5. Loaded Pistols (1948)
6. Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
7. Nevada City (1941)
8. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
9. Renegades (1930)
10. Spoilers of the Plains (1951)
11. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
12. Twilight in the Sierras (1950)
13. Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
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