Rick Vallin
Also Known As: Eric Efron
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Feodosiya, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Birthday: September 24, 1919
Deathday: August 31, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Revenue Agent
Overview: Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
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Terror at Midnight
Overview: A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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Jungle Manhunt
Overview: Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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Dangerous Money
Overview: A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-12
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Strange Fascination
Overview: A homely middle-aged man falls hard for a much younger woman leading to disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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The Panther's Claw
Overview: The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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Ghosts on the Loose
Overview: The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
Genres: Comedy Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-30
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The Sea Hound
Overview: Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-04
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The Magic Carpet
Overview: With the aid of a magic carpet, the true heir to an Arabian caliphate leads an uprising against the pretender oppressing his people.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Comanche Territory
Overview: Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Lady from Chungking
Overview: During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Killer Shark
Overview: A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-19
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Woman in the Dark
Overview: A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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Clancy Street Boys
Overview: Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-23
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The Quick Gun
Overview: Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Last of the Redmen
Overview: A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro, her sister Cora, and her young brother Davy from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-01
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Bob and Sally
Overview: 1948 hygiene/pregnancy roadshow exploiter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-24
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The Badge of Marshal Brennan
Overview: Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken for the dead man, a legendary marshal named Brennan. The town sent for Marshal Brennan because they were facing a crisis that includes among other things an epidemic. The Stranger decides to stay as a way of hiding from the men chasing him. What he does not realize is that when he takes on the Badge of Marshal Brennan, he takes on the responsibilities of Marshal Brennan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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Escort Girl
Overview: A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-04
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King of the Congo
Overview: An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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The Golden Idol
Overview: Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli, and a beautiful archeologist, he foils Ali's plans.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-10
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Tuna Clipper
Overview: Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Overview: Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Dial Red O
Overview: The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-13
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The Homesteaders
Overview: Homesteaders Mace Corbin and Clyde Moss pick up much needed dynamite and begin a journey to transport it from an army fort to their homes, hiring a crew of ex-soldiers just released from the army prison. Mace knows he's got his work cut out for him with unstable dynamite, undisciplined hired hands and possible hostile Indians but he doesn't have the slightest hint that his trusted friend Clyde has betrayed him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-22
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Shamrock Hill
Overview: A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Queen Esther
Overview: A Jewish woman, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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A Night for Crime
Overview: A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-18
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Adventures of Captain Africa
Overview: Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John Hart and the always-dull Rick Vallin making less-than-adequate substitutes for Tom Tyler and Gilbert Roland, this Sam Katzman "production" finds the mighty jungle avenger and legendary Captain Africa - A "Phantom" rip-off that side-stepped the need to pay King Features another fee for using the character - pledging to see that the legitimate Arabian caliph, Hamid, is restored to the throne which a tyrannical rival has usurped. He is joined in this enterprise by adventurer Ted Arnold, wild-animal trapper Nat Coleman, and his assistant Omar and, to cover all bases
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-09
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The Tijuana Story
Overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Desperate Cargo
Overview: When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Secrets of a Co-Ed
Overview: An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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Riding with Buffalo Bill
Overview: Columbia Pictures elevated a run-of-the-mill B-western supporting player, Marshall Reed, to the title role in this equally run-of-the-mill western serial released in 15 chapters. Like most serials in the '50s, Riding with Buffalo Bill consisted of quite a bit of budget-stretching stock footage telling a highly fictionalized account of Buffalo Bill Cody aiding a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord. The serial's assistant director, Leonard Katzman, later produced the long-running television series Gunsmoke and Dallas.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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State Penitentiary
Overview: A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Wagon Tracks West
Overview: Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-18
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Rio Grande Patrol
Overview: Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Brick Bradford
Overview: Brick Bradford, soldier-of-fortune and time-machine traveler, is hired to protect the Interceptor Ray, an anti-guided missile weapon. His task takes him to the Moon, where he is captured by subjects of Queen Khana, but is spared because Queen Khana kinda likes him. Back on earth, Brick, Sandy and June get into The Time To (Brick's spinning time-machine) and spin back to the 18th Century where they have to fight off pirates and island natives.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-18
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Smart Guy
Overview: A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Nearly Eighteen
Overview: A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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Corregidor
Overview: A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-29
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Isle of Forgotten Sins
Overview: An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-15
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Two Blondes and a Redhead
Overview: Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think. When the show closes, she brings two of her chorus friends home with her. In addition to trying to make her friends acceptable to the snooty society of which her family is part, she is also being blackmailed by a rival.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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Batman and Robin
Overview: This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Overview: In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-15
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Snow Dog
Overview: The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.
Genres: Western Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-16
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Son of Geronimo
Overview: The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15 chapter serial, which benefitted from a great deal of footage from the the stock piles at Columbia Pictures. Jim Scott and wagon train boss Tulsa are on to the nefarious schemes of Rance Rankin and Ace Devlin, getting words of warning through to Portico, the Son of Geronimo. With Portico's help, the white renegades are finally destroyed in the serial's concluding chapter, "Peace Treaty." Moore, the future star of the television series The Lone Ranger, was here billed "Clay Moore."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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Chain Gang
Overview: Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Riders of the Rio Grande
Overview: A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Captive Girl
Overview: Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Fighting Lawman
Overview: A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-20
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The Marksman
Overview: Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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Star of Texas
Overview: Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-11
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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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Thunder Pass
Overview: A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
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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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Perils of the Wilderness
Overview: In the 56th (and next-to-last serial) made by Columbia Pictures, Montana Deputy Dan Lawson, posing as an outlaw called Laramie, goes to the Canadian northwest on the trail of Bart Randall who is wanted for murder and bank robbery in the states. In Canada, Randall is a little more upscale and uses a hydra-plane and a fake totem to over-awe the Indians. Laramie is aided in his search by RCMP Sergeant Gray and by Donna Blane, who is suspected at first of giving information to Randall, but who is actually a Canadian secret agent investigating Randall's gun-trading with the Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-06
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Naked Gun
Overview: Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Escape from Red Rock
Overview: Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Blackhawk
Overview: Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-24
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Jungle Jim
Overview: Lady scientist, Hilary Parker is searching for a rare drug to help combat polio. Opportunist Bruce Edwards joins the quest but is actually after gold and buried treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-15
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Aladdin and His Lamp
Overview: A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three wishes if he frees him from the lamp.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-24
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Northwest Outpost
Overview: US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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King of the Stallions
Overview: Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Fighting Trouble
Overview: An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-16
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Bowery to Bagdad
Overview: The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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Cody of the Pony Express
Overview: Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-06
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Journey Into Faith
Overview: Depiction of events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion and His post-resurrection appearance to two followers on the road to Emmaus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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Flying with Music
Overview: The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
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Who Is My Neighbor
Overview: The story of an amulet and morals of man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-06
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