Allegheny Uprising 1939  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy, Chill Wills, Wilfrid Lawson, Robert Barrat, Moroni Olsen, Ian Wolfe, Eddie Quillan, Wallis Clark, Monte Montague, Olaf Hytten, Eddy Walle, Clay Clement
Set in Ohio before the Revolutionary War, this is the story of Jim Smith (John Wayne), a colonial leader who falls in love with Janie (Claire Trevor)–all the while attacking the regime of provincial governor Captain Swanson (George Sanders) that allows trader Ralph Callendar (Brian Donlevy) to sell firearms to the Indians.
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Bandits of El Dorado 1949 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Nazarro
Cast: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, George J. Lewis, Fred F. Sears, Clayton Moore, Jock Mahoney, John Dehner, Mustard, Gravy, Edmund Cobb, Ray Bennett, Herman Hack, Henry Kulky, Monte Montague, Kermit Maynard
Texas Ranger Steve Carson (Charles Starrett) goes undercover as The Durango Kid when needs to find out how fugitives get away into Mexico, so he must become one himself.
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The Border Legion 1940 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
aka: West of the Badlands
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Carol Hughes, Joe Sawyer, Maude Eburne, Jay Novello, Eddie Acuff, Hal Taliaferro, Dick Wessel, Paul Porcasi, Robert Emmett Keane, Fred Burns, Curley Dresden, Bob Woodward, Monte Montague
This Zane Grey story has New York Dr. Stephen Kellogg, aka Steve Kells on the run from the law and coming to an area in the West that the outlaw gang Border Legion controls. The gang's boss is shot, and the gang kidnaps Kells to have him remove the bullet. They do not allow Kells to leave, and he joins the gang with plans to lead them into a trap.
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 Calamity Jane 1953   N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama / Western / Romance
Director: David Butler
Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Philip Carey, Allyn Ann McLerie, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins, Lane Chandler, Kenne Duncan, Glenn Strange, I. Stanford Jolley, Budd Buster, Lee Shumway, Monte Montague
Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) meet in Deadwood, South Dakota, where they have a rollicking good time. Jane promises the townsfolk that she will get Chicago singing star Adelaide Adams (Gale Robbins) to perform on Deadwood's Golden Garter stage. Adelaide is booked on a European tour and, unbeknownst to Jane, sends her maid Katie (Allyn Ann McLerie) to perform. After failing at her first performance, Katie becomes a success and tries to make a "lady" out of Jane. Meanwhile, Jane thinks she is falling for handsome Lt. Gilmartin (Philip Carey), but when Gilmartin is attracted to Katie instead, Jane finally realizes that it is Wild Bill who she has loved all along. Terrific music; songs include "Deadwood Stage," "Secret Love," and "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better." "Secret Love" won the Oscar for Best Song.
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Frontier Pony Express 1939  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane, Noble Johnson, Monte Blue, Don Dillaway, William Royle, Ethel Wales, Chris-Pin Martin, Monte Montague, George Montgomery, Jack Kirk, Charles King, Spade Cooley
Yankee and Rebel forces vie for the hearts of Californians during the Civil War, and all is not peaceful. Pony Express rider Roy Rogers gets the bad guys.
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The Singing Hill 1941  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters, George Meeker, Gerald Oliver Smith, Wade Boteler, Harry Stubbs, Monte Montague, Hal Price, Jack Kirk, Chuck Baldra, Sam Flint, Helen Gibson
Gene Autry sings and sings and fixes a problem. It appears that Virginia Dale would like to give up her land, but if she does, bad guy John Ramsey (George Meeker) can charge high prices for grazing land.
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Sunset Serenade 1942 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Nolan, Helen Parrish, Onslow Stevens, Joan Woodbury, Frank M. Thomas, Pat Brady, Roy Barcroft, Dick Wessel, Rex Lease, Jack Kirk, Fred Burns, Jack Ingram, Monte Montague
It's the fair-young-maiden-from-back-East-who-inherits-a-ranch story, and, as the story goes, the bad guys want to get rid of her. Roy Rogers, Gabby, and the Sons of the Pioneers come to Sylvia Clark's (Helen Parrish) aid when land speculators threaten to take the land that belongs to her one-year-old ward. Roy sings some songs and saves the day. Songs include "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "I'm Headin' for the Home Corral," and "Song of the San Joaquin."
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Tailspin Tommy 1934 N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller, Grant Withers, Charles A. Browne, Monte Montague, Edmund Cobb, Bryant Washburn, John Davidson, Harrison Green, William Desmond
Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (Maurice Murphy) and cohort Skeeter Milligan (Noah Berry Jr.) are working for a mail-delivery airline when a rival airline sends out its dogfighting planes with the mission of destroying Tommy's plane and seizing control of the mail-delivery business. A 12-part serial for the 1930s' Saturday matinees.
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Young Bill Hickok 1940 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Julie Bishop, John Miljan, Sally Payne, Monte Blue, Iron Eyes Cody, Archie Twitchell, Hal Taliaferro, Jack Ingram, Monte Montague, Ethel Wales, Hank Bell, Slim Whitaker, Jack Rockwell
In another of Roy Rogers' roles in fictionalized versions of Western heroes, Roy plays Bill Hickok who teams up with Calamity Jane (Sally Payne) to take on foreign agents trying to take over territory in the Southwest.
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| 1. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
2. Bandits of El Dorado (1949)
3. The Border Legion (1940)
aka: West of the Badlands
4. Calamity Jane (1953)
5. Frontier Pony Express (1939)
6. The Singing Hill (1941)
7. Sunset Serenade (1942)
8. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
9. Young Bill Hickok (1940)
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