Dick Dickinson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tipton, Iowa, USA
Birthday: September 16, 1895
Deathday: July 27, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Far Country
Overview: During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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West of the Divide
Overview: Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-15
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High Speed
Overview: A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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The Lost Trail
Overview: Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the stagecoach line is pretty Jane Burns (Jennifer Holt).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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The Lightning Warrior
Overview: A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Next Of Kin
Overview: A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'West of the Divide', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'West of the Divide' down to a 22 minute short version.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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The Vanishing Legion
Overview: A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
Genres: Action Mystery Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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The Galloping Ghost
Overview: A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Overview: A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-05
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Black Bandit
Overview: Twin brothers Bob and Don Ramsay are on opposite sides of the law. Bob is the Sheriff and Don is the famous outlaw the Black Bandit. When the Black Bandit strikes, he is seen and his look-alike brother Bob arrested. Refusing to implicate his brother, Bob escapes and heads after Don.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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Ghost Town Riders
Overview: Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly and eventually realizes Gomer is up to something. When Gomer's henchman slips and reveals there is a letter, Bob finds it and heads for the tax collector with Gomer's men in pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Lightning Strikes West
Overview: When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Code of the West
Overview: Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Hartley is sent to investigate and suspecting Leary, he and the Sheriff plan to trap them the next time they try their scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-01
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Trail Dust
Overview: Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Rainbow Ranch
Overview: An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-25
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Overview: Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Silver on the Sage
Overview: Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-31
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The Night Riders
Overview: Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Boys' Reformatory
Overview: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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Sky Patrol
Overview: "Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear. Tommy sends him out on patrol, on orders from Washington D. C., to stop any unfamiliar aircraft. Carter challenges an unmarked amphibian plane, which opens fire on him. Carter, afraid to shoot, bails out as his plane is shot down. Carter is missing, and Tommy and Skeeter are searching for him and the mysterious airplane.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-11
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Squeaks and Squawks
Overview: A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-28
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Ranger's Code
Overview: When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-14
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House of Frankenstein
Overview: Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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House of Dracula
Overview: A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Pinky
Overview: Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-28
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The Devil Horse
Overview: Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Street Angel
Overview: A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-09
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Light of Western Stars
Overview: Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-17
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Bar 20 Justice
Overview: Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Dennis mine, has Dennis killed. Hoppy steps in to take over running the Dennis mine and learns Frazier's men sneak into and work the Dennis mine at night. Hoppy captures one of Frazier's men only to be captured in return by Frazier and left to die in a burning building.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Ghost Guns
Overview: Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-17
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Law of the West
Overview: For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots Tracy, he tells Bob that Carruthers did it and sends Bob out after him. But unknown to Bob, Morgan has put blanks in his gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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In Old Colorado
Overview: Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Stick to Your Guns
Overview: Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Smoking Guns
Overview: Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-11
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Big Calibre
Overview: Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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American Empire
Overview: Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Riders of the West
Overview: Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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The Gallant Fool
Overview: The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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Texas Buddies
Overview: Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes over as pilot figuring another attempt will be made and this time the Sheriff will be there.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Hoopla
Overview: A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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Armored Car Robbery
Overview: While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Tap Roots
Overview: Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-25
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Vanishing Men
Overview: Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-14
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Trailing North
Overview: As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-15
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Hidden Valley
Overview: Cowboy is hired by an archaeologist to help find "Hidden Valley", where an Indian gold treasure is supposed to be buried. Just when he finds it, the archaeologist is killed, and the cowboy his charged with his murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-10
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Mason of the Mounted
Overview: Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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The Fugitive
Overview: A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-15
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