Babes in Arms 1939  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winningham, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Rand Brooks, Henry Hull, Margaret Hamilton, Lon McCallister, Joseph Crehan, Douglas McPhail, Johnny Sheffield, Barnett Parker, Ann Shoemaker
This is the original Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney musical extravaganza featuring Busby Berkeley production numbers. Mickey Moran (Rooney) does not want to be sent to a work farm when his vaudeville parents go on tour. So, at his girlfriend Patsy Barton's (Garland) urging, he writes his own show, and he and Patsy hit the road on their musical tour. Nineteen-year-old Rooney was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
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The Big Cat 1949  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, Sara Haden, Irving Bacon, Gene Reynolds
During the Depression, in 1933, city-boy Danny Turner (Lon McCallister) visits his rancher uncle Gil (Forrest Tucker) in Utah. A cougar is on the loose, and, while Danny is not of much use as a ranch hand, he proves pivotal when Gil's life is threatened by the big cat.
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Home in Indiana 1944  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Walter Brennan, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood, Ward Bond, Charles Dingle, George Cleveland, Roger Imhof, Tom Dugan
Young Sparke Thornton (Lon McCallister) moves to the country where he and J.F. "Thunder" Bolt (Walter Brennan) raise a blind filly that becomes a prize-winning horse. This story was remade as "April Love."
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The Red House 1947 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Allene Roberts, Julie London, Ona Munson, Harry Shannon, Arthur Space, Walter Sande, Pat Flaherty
Crippled farmer Pete Morgan (Edward G. Robinson) lives a secluded life with his sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) and teenage ward Meg (Allene Roberts) who they have raised since she was a baby. In the woods on the property is a red house that Pete forbids anyone to visit, but Meg becomes curious and talks farmhand Nath (Lon McCallister) into investigating with her. The secrets of the house come to light in this eerie tale.
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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! 1948 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: F. Hugh Herbert
Cast: June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere, Natalie Wood, Robert Karnes, Marilyn Monroe, Tom Tully, Ken Christy, Edward Gargan
This comedy involves a young farmer whose interest in keeping his team of mules seems to obscure all else in his life–even romance. Marilyn Monroe's film debut is brief–can you find her?
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Stage Door Canteen 1943  N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Cheryl Walker, Marjorie Riordan, William Terry, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early, Patrick O'Moore, Ruth Roman, Paul Muni, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn
This is another W.W.II-era musical in which the studio loaded their stars into a film to help the war effort.
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The Story of Seabiscuit 1949 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Family
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary DeCamp, Donald MacBride, Pierre Watkin, William Forrest, Bill Cartledge, Creighton Hale, Gertrude Astor
Shawn O'Hara (Barry Fitzgerald) sees something no one else does in his horse, Seabiscuit. Training pays off, and Seabiscuit becomes a champion.
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| 1. Babes in Arms (1939)
2. The Big Cat (1949)
3. Home in Indiana (1944)
4. The Red House (1947)
5. Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
6. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
7. The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
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