Bill Coontz
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Birthday: August 28, 1917
Deathday: April 07, 1978
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The Littlest Hobo
1958-07-06
The Littlest Hobo
Overview: When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Heaven with a Gun
1969-05-20
Heaven with a Gun
Overview: Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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Fort Vengeance
1953-03-28
Fort Vengeance
Overview: Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to brew with the Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-28
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Duel on the Mississippi
1955-09-16
Duel on the Mississippi
Overview: In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
Cattle Queen of Montana
Overview: Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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Conquest of Cochise
1953-09-01
Conquest of Cochise
Overview: A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-01
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Thunder Over the Plains
1953-10-27
Thunder Over the Plains
Overview: Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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Lone Texan
1959-03-01
Lone Texan
Overview: After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Topeka
1953-08-09
Topeka
Overview: Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-09
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Shootout at Big Sag
1962-05-31
Shootout at Big Sag
Overview: A man has his eyes set on controlling the Big Sag territory in Montana and hopes to achieve his goal by forcing a newly-arrived family from Texas from their land. Hoping to convince the local saloonkeeper to help him, the man sends his daughter into town with instructions for his potential partner. A storm waylays the daughter during her trip to town and she is forced to stay at the home of her father's intended victims, leading to an interesting turn or two.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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The Wild One
1953-12-30
The Wild One
Overview: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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Apache Ambush
1955-08-24
Apache Ambush
Overview: Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-24
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Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
1952-02-08
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Overview: Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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Bloodlust!
1961-09-13
Bloodlust!
Overview: Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Convoy
1978-06-27
Convoy
Overview: Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-27
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968-04-19
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Overview: The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Kingdom of the Spiders
1977-08-24
Kingdom of the Spiders
Overview: Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-24
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Ride Out for Revenge
1957-10-31
Ride Out for Revenge
Overview: When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Noose for a Gunman
1960-05-01
Noose for a Gunman
Overview: Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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The Solid Gold Girl
1964-02-14
The Solid Gold Girl
Overview: While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of his is being tried for robbery and murder. The outlaw has hidden the loot and offers to reveal the location to Destry, but instead provides the location to Patience Dailey, a gold digging saloon singer played by Tammy Grimes.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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Hearts of the West
1975-10-08
Hearts of the West
Overview: Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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Niagara
1953-01-26
Niagara
Overview: Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-26
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Stakeout!
1962-10-01
Stakeout!
Overview: After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that he befriends along the way attempt to kidnap an oil baron's son. The kidnapping fails and Joe Dasco is shot and killed. His son Joey is then left alone but inherits what his father fought and died for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Man from the Black Hills
1952-03-29
Man from the Black Hills
Overview: As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-29
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The Maverick
1952-12-14
The Maverick
Overview: Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-14
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Guns of a Stranger
1973-05-01
Guns of a Stranger
Overview: Forced to kill a young Abilene gunman in the line of duty, Sheriff Matthew Roberts, torn by anguish takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Roberts becomes known as 'The Drifter', wandering restlessly through the west. In Arizona, he aids elderly rancher, Tom Duncan, Tom's granddaughter, Virginia and kid-brother Danny (Steven Tackett) in their fight to save their small ranch from a crooked banker and his gang of outlaws.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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Raiders of Old California
1957-11-01
Raiders of Old California
Overview: A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Plunderers of Painted Flats
1959-01-23
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Overview: To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-23
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No Place to Land
1958-10-03
No Place to Land
Overview: A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to destroy him.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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Big Daddy
1969-06-11
Big Daddy
Overview: A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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She Demons
1958-01-03
She Demons
Overview: A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Hidden Guns
1956-01-30
Hidden Guns
Overview: The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-30
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Smoke In The Wind
1975-04-01
Smoke In The Wind
Overview: The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Wichita
1955-07-03
Wichita
Overview: Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-03
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The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960-06-16
The Girl in Lovers Lane
Overview: Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-16
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Frankenstein's Daughter
1958-12-15
Frankenstein's Daughter
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-15
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