Rex Allen
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rex Elvie Allen (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999) was an American film actor, singer and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rex Elvie Allen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 31, 1920
Deathday: December 17, 1999
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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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Charlotte's Web
1973-03-01
Charlotte's Web
Overview: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Genres: Family Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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The Legend of Lobo
1962-11-07
The Legend of Lobo
Overview: You'll be captivated as you track the legendary Lobo through an amazing Southwest adventure. Our story begins with Lobo as an adorable wolf cub and follows his growth into a fearless and majestic leader of the pack. At odds with the local cattlemen, the price on Lobo's head grows, attracting an expert wolf hunter. As they go head to head, Lobo's amazing survival instincts and family devotion leave the hunter with nothing but respect. With the rich narration of Rex Allen, and music from the legendary Sherman Brothers and the popular Sons Of The Pioneers, this is family entertainment at its best!
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-07
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Legend of Cougar Canyon
1976-04-19
Legend of Cougar Canyon
Overview: There are many wonderful and dangerous legends about Cougar Canyon, a sacred Navajo terrain. Two young boys must face the legends and dangers when they go to rescue a lost goat.
Genres: Documentary Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-19
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979-06-05
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Overview: Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
Genres: Documentary Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-05
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The Saga of Windwagon Smith
1961-03-16
The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Overview: Sea Captain Windwagon Smith hits Westport, Kansas, the starting point of the old Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, and is quickly the laughing stock of the town; instead of traveling in the usual oxen-drawn covered wagon, he is at the helm and wheel of a Contestoga-type wagon with a full set of sails. He plans to go to Oregon by taking advantage of the prairie winds. First, he wins over the town mayor, falls in love with the mayor's beautiful daughter, Molly Crum, and then secures financial backing from the townspeople. He sets sail across the plains, with Molly Crum as a covered-wagon stowaway, and a Kansas twister looming on the horizon. And, then, the wind hits the sails. And the fan, too, if he had had one.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-16
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The Saga of Windwagon Smith
1961-03-16
The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Overview: Sea Captain Windwagon Smith hits Westport, Kansas, the starting point of the old Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, and is quickly the laughing stock of the town; instead of traveling in the usual oxen-drawn covered wagon, he is at the helm and wheel of a Contestoga-type wagon with a full set of sails. He plans to go to Oregon by taking advantage of the prairie winds. First, he wins over the town mayor, falls in love with the mayor's beautiful daughter, Molly Crum, and then secures financial backing from the townspeople. He sets sail across the plains, with Molly Crum as a covered-wagon stowaway, and a Kansas twister looming on the horizon. And, then, the wind hits the sails. And the fan, too, if he had had one.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-16
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Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
1967-10-18
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Overview: A heartwarming Disney classic in which a cougar, who was rescued as a cub and raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest, reverts back to his natural instincts, leading to hilarious (and dangerous) consequences.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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I Dream of Jeanie
1952-06-15
I Dream of Jeanie
Overview: The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood
1965-01-28
A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood
Overview: When a coyote named Chico is chased into the back of a moving van he accidentally ends up in the Hollywood hills and learns the ins and outs of being an urban coyote.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-28
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The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon
1960-08-10
The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon
Overview: One of multiple Walt Disney adaptations from Rutherford Montgomery stories.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Yellowstone Cubs
1963-06-01
Yellowstone Cubs
Overview: Two bear cubs, Tuffy and Tubby, are separated from their mother and spend an entire summer romping through Yellowstone National Park. In the meantime, the mother bear follows their trail as she searches for them.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Colorado Sundown
1952-02-08
Colorado Sundown
Overview: The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Forester and substitute their brother Dusty in his place. Dusty then says all the trees are infected and must be cut down. But Rex Allen is suspicious and writes to the Forestry Department and gets involved with the murders.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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The Arizona Cowboy
1950-04-01
The Arizona Cowboy
Overview: A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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Trail of Robin Hood
1950-12-15
Trail of Robin Hood
Overview: Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Silver City Bonanza
1951-03-01
Silver City Bonanza
Overview: Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex Allen and Gabriel Horne to Pete's lifeless body. They set out to find the killer and run into trouble near Silver City, Arizona, when they rescue Katie McIntosh from a gang that is chasing her buckboard.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Iron Mountain Trail
1953-05-08
Iron Mountain Trail
Overview: Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Hills of Oklahoma
1950-06-01
Hills of Oklahoma
Overview: In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman's association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Born to Buck
1966-09-01
Born to Buck
Overview: Bronco riders travel through South Dakota and round up 400 wild horses in danger of extinction, then bring them to Fort Pierre where they are ridden by broncobusters in rodeo competition.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Phantom Stallion
1954-02-10
Phantom Stallion
Overview: Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Old Oklahoma Plains
1952-07-25
Old Oklahoma Plains
Overview: One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-25
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Shadows of Tombstone
1953-09-18
Shadows of Tombstone
Overview: Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. When Marge, who runs the town newspaper tells Rex she is afraid to attack the sheriff in print, Rex decides to run for sheriff. Webb and Mike frame Rex and his partner Slim on a murder charge and they are jailed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-18
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Old Overland Trail
1953-02-25
Old Overland Trail
Overview: Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.
Genres: Action Western Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-25
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Border Saddlemates
1952-04-15
Border Saddlemates
Overview: Rex Allen ('Rex Allen'), a U. S. government veterinarian, rides into the picturesque town of Pine Rock, near the Canadian border, to take the place of the regular vet who is on vacation. Used to doctoring animals in Texas, Allen finds out that herein the heart of the fox-farming industry, he is to doctor the most finicky and high-priced of fur on four feet. On the farm of Mel Richards (Tom London), Allen learns the habits of the valuable creatures from Richard's niece, Jane (Mary Ellen Kay, and her ten-year-old brother Danny (Jimmy Moss'), and on his own learns that the trusted owner of the trading post, Steve Baxter (Roy Barcroft) heads a gang that is smuggling counterfeit money across the American/Canadian border in the fox cages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976-05-01
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Overview: A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
Genres: Western Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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Down Laredo Way
1953-08-05
Down Laredo Way
Overview: Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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The Last Musketeer
1952-03-01
The Last Musketeer
Overview: A greedy rancher is charging excessive prices for access to the area's only water supply, extorting the smaller ranchers in the area. A water diviner teams up with a cattle buyer to force the villain to share the water with his neighbors.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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Under Mexicali Stars
1950-11-20
Under Mexicali Stars
Overview: Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-20
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Thunder in God's Country
1951-04-07
Thunder in God's Country
Overview: Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until escaped convict Smitty arrives with plans of taking over and opening the town up as a gambling resort. It's up to Rex Allen and his pals to put a stop to it and sing a few songs along the way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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Utah Wagon Train
1951-10-14
Utah Wagon Train
Overview: Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-14
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South Pacific Trail
1952-10-19
South Pacific Trail
Overview: Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor. Meanwhile, the rancher's foreman executes plans for a train robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-19
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Red River Shore
1953-12-15
Red River Shore
Overview: When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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Redwood Forest Trail
1950-09-18
Redwood Forest Trail
Overview: Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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Tomboy and the Champ
1961-04-01
Tomboy and the Champ
Overview: A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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The Horse of the West
1957-12-11
The Horse of the West
Overview: The story of The Bay Lady, a quarter horse born on Rex Allen's ranch. The Bay Lady is the favorite filly of Elena Vasquez until the young horse is accidentally shipped from the ranch to be sold at an auction.
Genres: Western Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Chickenomics: A Fowl Approach to Economics
1979-01-01
Chickenomics: A Fowl Approach to Economics
Overview: Designed as a primer of economic terms and concepts, uses the career of the Chicken, America's first professional sports mascot, as a source of illustrative material. Shows how the chicken could succeed only in market economy, what the characteristics of such an economy are, and how they have influenced the chicken's career.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
1975-01-15
Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
Overview: Follow an American family over 4 generations of progress and watch technology transform their lives. During each era, learn how the technological marvels of the day made life more comfortable—and paved the way for unimaginable innovations. Imagine the wonders the next hundred years may bring!
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Sancho, the Homing Steer
1962-01-21
Sancho, the Homing Steer
Overview: A pet steer, Sancho, is awkward to keep when it is full grown at the rancho, and he almost ruins a cattle drive. Sancho heads off toward home by himself, a journey of 1,200 miles, finding many obstacles along the way.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951-07-15
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Overview: Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-15
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The Feather Farm
1969-10-26
The Feather Farm
Overview: Ostrich raising in 1915 is not as easy as it seems, as a Boston matron and her niece sadly discover. They almost lose their investment as the ostriches run away, but the hired men finally find them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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The City Fox
1972-02-20
The City Fox
Overview: A young fox unexpectedly finds himself in San Francisco, where, after many misadventures, he is befriended by a boy in Chinatown. The boy helps the Humane Society take the fox back to the wilds.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-20
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Nosey, the Sweetest Skunk in the West
1972-11-19
Nosey, the Sweetest Skunk in the West
Overview: An orphaned skunk comes into the lives of an artist and his daughter in a desolate area of Arizona, and he tangles with an owl and a pair of poodles.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-19
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Ringo, the Refugee Raccoon
1974-03-03
Ringo, the Refugee Raccoon
Overview: A raccoon’s habitat is destroyed by construction of a new shopping center and he gets into all sorts of trouble trying to find a new place to live.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-03
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My Family Is a Menagerie
1968-02-11
My Family Is a Menagerie
Overview: A young widow who has a way with animals moves to Northern California and is asked to care for the local strays. A wreck of a circus truck sets a menagerie of circus animals free, and she has to use all her wits to catch them. Only a leopard eludes her, and he is befriended by a local renegade dog. Eventually she is able to trap them and she trains them to be in her animal act.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Seems There Was This Moose
1975-10-19
Seems There Was This Moose
Overview: A young moose survives two hazardous years on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. Grizzlies, enroachment of civilization, and snowfall creating difficulty in foraging are among the problems threatening the moose.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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The Secret of Old Glory Mine
1976-10-31
The Secret of Old Glory Mine
Overview: An old prospector, Charlie, living alone with his burro in Arizona tries to keep a rich silver vein a secret. He takes out only enough to pay his expenses. When another miner arrives, Charlie tries to dissuade him from finding the vein, but when he saves Charlie’s life, the two decide to share the secret.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-31
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Swamp Country
1966-04-01
Swamp Country
Overview: In a small southern swamp town, a local girl is found murdered. A young California man passing through town is blamed, and in fleeing the local lynch mob he escapes into the Okeefeenokee Swamp, where he runs into even more dangers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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For the Love of Mike
1960-08-28
For the Love of Mike
Overview: An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-28
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The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
1957-11-20
The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
Overview: "The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansburgh. This episode provides a preview of Old Yeller, and also features Arizona Sheepdog.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Western Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-20
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Run For Blue
1976-08-20
Run For Blue
Overview: Family film centered around horse racing and going for the Blue Ribbon
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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The Incredible Journey
1963-11-20
The Incredible Journey
Overview: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Disneyland '59
1959-06-15
Disneyland '59
Overview: Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Starbird and Sweet William
1973-03-21
Starbird and Sweet William
Overview: A plane crash survivor draws upon the sensibilities of his Native American ancestry in order to stay alive in a rugged outland.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West
1974-12-08
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West
Overview: Journey to California's picturesque Santa Inez Valley as a wild Brahma bull threatens the area's prized cattle herds. The ranchers' best hopes for corralling the 1800-pound horned hooligan are three talented Australian "cow cutter" shepherd dogs -- Stub, Queen and Shorty. Stub keeps a few tricks "up his sleeve" for rodeos, roundups and a daring river rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-08
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An Otter in the Family
1965-02-21
An Otter in the Family
Overview: The story tells of a young boy who finds an orphaned baby otter and decides to adopt him into the family, but as the otter grows it wreaks all kinds of havoc, including raiding the neighbor's chicken coop.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-21
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Concho, the Coyote Who Wasn't
1966-04-10
Concho, the Coyote Who Wasn't
Overview: A coyote adopted by an old Navajo, Delgado, thinks he is a sheepdog, though he is not accepted by the other dogs of the area.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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