The Accused 1949  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick, Sara Allgood, Ann Doran, Suzanne Dalbert, Mickey Knox, Francis Pierlot, George Spaulding, Carole Mathews, Billy Mauch, Joe Gray, Bess Flowers
Straight-laced, psychology professor Dr. Wilma Tuttle (Loretta Young) accidentally murders a student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick) when he attempts to rape her and then covers up her crime. All goes well for Tuttle–until Warren Ford (Robert Cummings) delves into the circumstantial evidence surrounding the murder and sleuths out the truth.
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Arizona Mahoney 1936  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Marjorie Gateson, John Miljan, Dave Chasen, Irving Bacon, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler, James P. Burtis, Frank Mayo, Jim Mason, Jack Perrin
Arizona Mahoney (Joe Cook), who makes a living being shot out of a cannon in the circus, and his piano-playing partner Phillip Randall (Robert Cummings) decide to settle down in the West, and, with help from the circus elephant, they round up a gang of rustlers.
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 Beach Party 1963  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: William Asher
Cast: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck, Jody McCrea, John Ashley, Morey Amsterdam, Vincent Price, Eva Six, Dick Dale, Andy Romano, Meredith MacRae
Professor Jason Sutwell (Robert Cummings) sets out to study sex habits of teenagers at Malibu Beach and meets surfers Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dolores (Annette Funicello). This film was so popular that it spawned a series of "Beach Party" movies.
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The Bride Wore Boots 1946  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Peggy Wood, Robert Benchley, Willie Best, Natalie Wood
Horsewoman Sally (Barbara Stanwyck) has major problems trying to convince her husband, Jeff (Robert Cummings), to enter her world of love and respect for horses.
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The Carpetbaggers 1964 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Martin Balsam, Leif Erickson, Carroll Baker, Audrey Totter
Based on Harold Robins' novel, this is the story of lust and power that is loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes. This was Alan Ladd's last film.
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 The Chase 1946 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Ripley
Cast: Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Peter Lorre, Jack Holt, Don Wilson, James Westerfield, Shirley(2) O'Hara, Nina Koshetz, Alex Minotis, Yolanda Lacca, Jimmy Ames, Bess Flowers, Alex Montoya
The fortunes of Chuck (Robert Cummings), an out-of-luck veteran, change when he returns a wallet to gangster Eddie (Steve Cochran). Matters get rough when Eddie's wife (Michele Morgan) is sprung from prison. Chuck helps her escape from Eddie, and the chase is on.
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College Swing 1938 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, Robert Cummings, Florence George
Gracie (Gracie Allen) inherits a college and turns it into a swinging vaudeville arena.
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Desert Gold 1936 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, Tom Keene, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo, Walter Miller, Si Jenks, Art Mix, Robert McKenzie
An Indian tribe led by Maya (Buster Crabbe) guards the secret of a vast gold deposit on their land. But a gang led by Chetley (Monte Blue) intends to extract the secret of the tribe. Based on a Zane Grey novel.
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The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest, Walter Kingsford, Montagu Love, Regis Toomey
In this entertaining comedy, a department store owner, J.P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), pretends to be one of the store's clerks in an effort to solve problems involving the potential for unionization.
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 Dial M for Murder 1954  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, Robin Hughes, George Alderson, George Leigh, Guy Doleman, Forbes Murray, Martin Milner, Thayer Roberts, Bess Flowers
Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants his wife Margot's (Grace Kelly) money and plots to kill her. However, she kills her assailant "Captain Lesgate" (Anthony Dawson), and Tony reworks his plan to make his wife appear guilty of cold-blooded murder. In the end, he is too clever for his own good. Originally shown in 3-D.
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Everything Happens at Night 1939 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch, Alan Dinehart, Fritz Feld, Jody Gilbert, Leonid Kinskey, Victor Varconi, William Edmunds
Two reporters, Geoffrey Thompson (Ray Milland) and Ken Morgan (Robert Cummings), try to find a missing Nobel Prize winner, and both fall in love with the man's daughter, Louise (Sonja Henie).
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The First Time 1952 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin, Jeff Donnell, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Harvey, Cora Witherspoon, Bea Benaderet, Mona Barrie, Kathleen Comegys
Joe and Betsy (Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale) await the arrival of their baby with high anticipation. But after the baby arrives, they find that parenting is not as easy nor always as pleasant as they anticipated. Not great, but some laughs.
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Flesh and Fantasy 1943 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Winninger, Dame May Whitty, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley
This film consists of three intriguing stories–each connected through a supernatural theme.
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Forever and a Day 1943 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Claude Rains, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Ida Lupino, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper
Many directors and about 80 actors (mostly British) made this film to boost the morale of the people at home during World War II. The listed actors are but a sampling of the big names that contributed to this fine effort. It is the episodic tale of the families who lived in a house from the early 1800s to World War II. Each episode had a different director.
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Gidget Grows Up 1970 TV, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Sheldon
Cast: Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Petersen, Nina Foch, Paul Lynde, Warner Anderson, Robert Cummings
Gidget leaves California, moves to New York City, and becomes a guide at the United Nations. Of course, romance is soon the central point of this film.
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Hollywood Boulevard 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Frieda Inescort, Esther Ralston, Esther Dale, Betty Compson, Albert Conti, Gary Cooper
John Blakeford (John Halliday) is a former Hollywood star who tries to sell his memoirs to get out of debt. Problems ensue when the publisher (C. Henry Gordon) learns that his wife had an affair with Blakeford. Gary Cooper's appearance is brief.
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How to Be Very, Very Popular 1955 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Sheree North, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Charlotte Austin, Rhys Williams
In this remake of 1934's "She Loves Me Not" and 1942's "True to the Army," two dancers (Betty Grable and Sheree North) witness a Mob killing and then hide out on a college campus. This was Grable's last movie–"musicals" was her thing, but musicals were NOT the thing by the mid-1950s.
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It Started with Eve 1941 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet, Catherine Doucet, Walter Catlett, Charles Coleman, Leonard Elliott, Irving Bacon, Gus Schilling, Wade Boteler
Rich playboy Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) asks hatcheck girl Anne Terry (Deanna Durbin) to stand in for his fiancee to please his dying father (Charles Laughton) who wants to meet his daughter-in-law-to-be But Dad gets well and, having taken a liking to Anne, the pretense puts Junior in quite a spot. A fun-filled comedy/musical with Laughton at his best.
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Kings Row 1942 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains, Charles Coburn, Judith Anderson, Betty Field, Nancy Coleman, Kaaren Verne, Maria Ouspenskaya
This is an eye-opening drama about life in a small American town in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is interesting that, while times change, human nature remains the same. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Cinematography.
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The Last Train from Madrid 1937 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Anthony Quinn, Lee Bowman, Karen Morley, Robert Cummings, Lionel Atwill, Alan Ladd, Olympe Bradna, Helen Mack, Lee Bowman
Set in the 1930s during the Spanish civil war, an assortment of characters board a train as their last-ditch-effort means for escaping the war-torn country.
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The Lost Moment 1947 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Gabel
Cast: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frank Puglia, John Archer, Minerva Urecal, William Edmunds, Martin Garralaga
Searching for love letters, written by a now-famous poet proves difficult for Lewis (Robert Cummings) when he must deal with the niece (Susan Hayward) of the aging recipient (Agnes Moorehead) of the long-lost letters.
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Lucky Me 1954 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Jack Donohue
Cast: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr., Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer, Bill Goodwin, Angie Dickinson, Marcel Dalio, Hayden Rorke, James Burke, William Bakewell
Chorus girl Candy Williams (Doris Day) finds new hope when songwriter Dick Carson (Robert Cummings) and his new musical open the door to fame and fortune. Angie Dickinson's film debut.
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 Moon Over Miami 1941 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings, Charlotte Greenwood, Jack Haley, Carole Landis, George Lessey, Minor Watson, Fortunio Bonanova, Robert Greig
In this entertaining film, three fortune-hunting sisters (Betty Grable, Charlotte Greenwood, and Carol Landis) find Miami to be the optimum place in their search for wealthy husbands.
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My Geisha 1962 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Cardiff
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani, Tatsuo Saito, Alex Gerry, Tamae Kyokawa, Ichiro Hayakawa, Tsugundo Maki
Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine) covets a role in her theater producer husband's (Yves Montand) play. To that end she even poses as a geisha to obtain her goal.
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One Night in the Tropics 1940 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings, Mary Boland, William Frawley, Peggy Moran, Leo Carrillo, Don Alvarado, Eddie Acuff
This is Bud Abbott's and Lou Costello's movie debut. The story is about a romantic trio (Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, and Robert Cummings), but the real stars shine on Abbott and Costello.
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Princess O'Rourke 1943 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Krasna
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Harry Davenport, Gladys Cooper, Minor Watson, Curt Bois, Nana Bryant
Eddie O'Rourke (Bob Cummings) is a pilot who falls in love with Maria (Olivia de Havilland) and then discovers that she is a real-life princess. Krasna won the Best Screenplay Oscar.
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Promise Her Anything 1966 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Keenan Wynn, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bessie Love, Donald Sutherland, Mavis Villiers
Porn filmmaker Harley Rummell (Warren Beatty) gets saddled with his downstairs neighbor's infant son while she plots marriage to a psychologist.
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Reign of Terror 1949 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: The Black Book
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Hart, Richard Basehart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd, Charles McGraw, Beulah Bondi, Jess Barker, Wade Crosby, William Challee, Ellen Lowe
Set in France during the French Revolution, this tale of conspiracy and greed centers on the actions of Robespierre whose name has become synonymous with The Terror.
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 Saboteur 1942 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Alma Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Dorothy Peterson, Ian Wolfe
In this good Alfred Hitchcock film, World War II factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is on the run with Patricia Marlin (Priscilla Lane) after being falsely accused of sabotage. Following closely on their heels are both Nazi agents and the police. The Statue of Liberty is the scene of the rousing climax.
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Sons of the Desert 1933 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Lucien Littlefield, John Elliott, Robert Cummings, Charlita, Bob Burns
This is one of the funniest of the Laurel and Hardy films as they play husbands who invent many alibis to their wives so they can attend their lodge convention.
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Souls at Sea 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Olympe Bradna, Robert Cummings, Porter Hall, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Weidler, Stanley Fields, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Gilbert Emery
While Nuggin (Gary Cooper) is being tried for the mass murder of slaves, his story is told in flashback. After the slaves on the ship he and his friend Powdah (George Raft) served on killed the captain, Nuggin secretly put them ashore and returned the ship to the British Navy. The British government then ordered Nuggin to sabotage the slave trade. This film is based on the true story that took place in Philadelphia during 1842.
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 Stagecoach 1966 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Ann - Margret, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummings, Van Heflin, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, Brad Weston, Joseph Hoover, John Gabriel
Buck (Slim Pickens) is driving a stagecoach, and the riders include drunken Dr. Josiah Boone (Bing Crosby), prostitute Dallas (Ann-Margret), embezzling bank clerk Mr. Gatewood (Robert Cummings), policeman Curly (Van Heflin), pregnant Army wife Lucy (Stefanie Powers), and liquor salesman Mr. Peacock (Red Buttons). Later, outlaw Ringo (Alex Cord) boards the coach. They are attacked by Indians, and when they arrive in Cheyenne they must deal with outlaws led by Luke Plummer (Keenan Wynn). In the midst of these dangers, the passengers realize that they must work as a group if any of them is to survive.
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The Texans 1938 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings, Robert Barrat, Harvey Stephens, Francis Ford, Raymond Hatton, Irving Bacon
Following the Civil War, high taxes prove impossible for one Texas family that drives their cattle to a new range outside the area being taxed.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up 1939 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish, Robert Cummings, William Lundigan, Ernest Cossart, Nella Walker, Felix Bressart, Grady Sutton
The song "Because" was introduced in this sequel to "Three Smart Girls" as the youngest sibling, Penny (Deanna Durbin), interferes in her sisters' romances.
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Wells Fargo 1937 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Henry O'Neill, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Johnny Mack Brown, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jack Clark, Clarence Kolb
As the expansion of the country accelerated in the West in the mid-1800s, the need for better communications and flow of goods was evident, and the Wells Fargo company grew to meet those needs. This saga of these times, was presented in periodic episodes. The film was originally 115 minutes long, but most current prints are edited versions.
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What a Way to Go! 1964 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Cummings, Margaret Dumont, Dean Martin, Reginald Gardiner, Roy Gordon, Fifi D'Orsay, Lou Nova, Maurice Marsac, Wally Vernon, Jane Wald
Poor Louisa (Shirley MacLaine)–every time she marries, her new husband dies. Eventually, she has a whole lot of money that she is trying to give to the IRS, but officials suspect that she is insane and send her to a psychiatrist, Dr. Victor Stephanson (Robert Cummings), Louisa's story unfolds as she tells Stephanson about her marriages. The first one involves her choice of poor shopkeeper Edgar (Dick Van Dyke) over wealthy Leonard (Dean Martin), but Edgar works himself to death. Next, Louisa marries inventor Larry (Paul Newman) who becomes wealthy and dies. Then, she marries business tycoon Rod (Robert Mitchum) who retires, becomes a farmer, and is killed by a bull. Finally, Louisa marries entertainer Jerry (Gene Kelly), and he becomes a star and is crushed to death by a mob of his fans. All died trying to make Louisa happy, and now she believes that the money they made is cursed.
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| 1. The Accused (1949)
2. Arizona Mahoney (1936)
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
3. Beach Party (1963)
4. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
5. The Carpetbaggers (1964)
6. The Chase (1946)
7. College Swing (1938)
8. Desert Gold (1936)
9. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
10. Dial M for Murder (1954)
11. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
12. The First Time (1952)
13. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
14. Forever and a Day (1943)
15. Gidget Grows Up (1970)
16. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
17. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
18. It Started with Eve (1941)
19. Kings Row (1942)
20. The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
21. The Lost Moment (1947)
22. Lucky Me (1954)
23. Moon Over Miami (1941)
24. My Geisha (1962)
25. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
26. Princess O'Rourke (1943)
27. Promise Her Anything (1966)
28. Reign of Terror (1949)
aka: The Black Book
29. Rio (1939)
30. Saboteur (1942)
31. Sons of the Desert (1933)
32. Souls at Sea (1937)
33. Stagecoach (1966)
34. The Texans (1938)
35. Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
36. Wells Fargo (1937)
37. What a Way to Go! (1964)
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