Smith Ballew
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 21, 1902
Deathday: May 02, 1984
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Gun Cargo
1949-10-05
Gun Cargo
Overview: A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000-01-01
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Overview: This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
Genres: Documentary Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rawhide
1938-04-08
Rawhide
Overview: Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ranching. Lou expects to relax on his ranch but quickly joins Larry in the fight.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1938-04-08
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Racing Lady
1937-01-12
Racing Lady
Overview: A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-12
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The Man Who Walked Alone
1945-03-15
The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
1948-04-01
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
Overview: Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Roll Along, Cowboy
1937-10-18
Roll Along, Cowboy
Overview: Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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Western Gold
1937-08-27
Western Gold
Overview: President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Palm Springs
1936-06-05
Palm Springs
Overview: A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Hawaiian Buckaroo
1938-01-14
Hawaiian Buckaroo
Overview: Cowboys live amidst Hawaiian scenery and song.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Panamint's Bad Man
1938-07-07
Panamint's Bad Man
Overview: A hero goes undercover to uncover outlaws while singing to a heroine and being sneered at by a bad guy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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Gaucho Serenade
1940-05-09
Gaucho Serenade
Overview: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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The Red Badge of Courage
1951-09-27
The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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I Killed Geronimo
1950-08-08
I Killed Geronimo
Overview: Going undercover as the notorious "Waco Kid," U.S. Army Captain Jeff Packard manages to infiltrate a gang of gold-shipment thieves lead by nasty Walt Anderson. But Anderson and his gang are not the only troublemakers around: Packard must also contend with Geronimo and his Apache warriors, who are demanding guns in exchange for peace.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-08
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Drifting Along
1946-01-26
Drifting Along
Overview: Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the aid of a beleaguered female rancher. Just "drifting along," Steve Garner (Mack Brown) obtains the job of foreman on a spread belonging to pretty Pat McBride (Lynne Carver). Unbeknownst to Pat, local banker Jack Dailey (Douglas Fowley) not only holds the mortgage on the ranch but is also the man responsible for the death of Pat's father. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/drifting-along-v90041#OtPRR6jLd1ubhlQv.99
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5
1933-06-07
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5
Overview: The Happines Boys Billy Jones and Earnie Hare are invited to a party, but separate themselves from the rest of the guests, so they can not be urged to perform. However, they are watching the other guests from radio doing their stuff: song team Reece & Dunn, as well as the Funnyboners are singing, Smith Ballew and Frances Langford are exchanging love songs, Arthur Tracy tries his luck with a girl, just to find out that she prefers Bing Crosby and 4 orchestra leaders are trying to find out, who the best conductor is, by conducting a piece of recorded music....
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-07
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