Wayne Morris
Also Known As: Bert DeWayne Morris, Bert DeWayne Morris Jr.
Biography: Wayne Morris (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959), born Bert DeWayne Morris in Los Angeles, was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many notable films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952) and the title role of Kid Galahad in 1937. While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. Flying the F6F Hellcat off the aircraft carrier USS Essex, Morris shot down seven Japanese planes and contributed to the sinking of five ships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals. Morris was considered by the Navy as physically 'too big' to fly fighters. After being turned down several times as a fighter pilot, he went to his brother in law, Cdr. David McCampbell, imploring him for the chance to fly fighters. Cdr. McCampbell said "Give me a letter." He flew with the VF-15, the famed "McCampbell Heroes." He married Patricia O'Rourke, an Olympic swimmer, and sister to B-movie actress Peggy Stewart. Following the war, Morris returned to films, but his nearly four-year absence had cost him his burgeoning stardom. He continued to act in movies, but the pictures, for the most part, sank in quality. Losing his boyish looks but not demeanor, Morris spent most of the fifties in low-budget westerns. He made an unusual career move in 1957, making his Broadway debut as a washed-up boxing champ in William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers. He also appeared as a weakling in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957). Morris suffered a massive heart attack while visiting aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard in San Francisco Bay and was pronounced dead after being transported to Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. He was 45. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wayne Morris (American actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 17, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 14, 1959
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Paths of Glory
Overview: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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The Return of Doctor X
Overview: When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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The House Across the Street
Overview: Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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Plunder Road
Overview: A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-05
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Polo Joe
Overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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Task Force
Overview: After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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Deep Valley
Overview: A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-30
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The Green Buddha
Overview: Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Johnny One-Eye
Overview: Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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The Smiling Ghost
Overview: Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Time of Your Life
Overview: Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Flight Angels
Overview: Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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The Kid from Kokomo
Overview: Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-23
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Under Southern Stars
Overview: Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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The Younger Brothers
Overview: Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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I Wanted Wings
Overview: Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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Riding Shotgun
Overview: When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Brother Rat
Overview: Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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Submarine D-1
Overview: Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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The Voice of the Turtle
Overview: An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
Overview: Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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The Big Gusher
Overview: Hoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer--pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A Columbia Pictures B-film from 1951.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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Gambling on the High Seas
Overview: A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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Valley of the Giants
Overview: A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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A Kiss in the Dark
Overview: Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-25
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Stage to Tucson
Overview: A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications. Grif Holbrook, a trouble-shooter for the Butterfield Stage Line, and Union man Barney Broderick team up to try and put a stop to the activity, when they aren't fighting over the charms of Kate Crocker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Land Beyond the Law
Overview: A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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King of Hockey
Overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Lord of the Jungle
Overview: The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-12
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Ladies Must Live
Overview: A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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Love, Honor and Behave
Overview: Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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The Big Punch
Overview: Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-26
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The Gelignite Gang
Overview: A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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Arctic Flight
Overview: Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of the United States' defense installations.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-19
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Yellow Fin
Overview: WWII veteran Mike Donovan decides to sell his fishing boat after suffering a a series of accidents, the worst of which sends his father, Captain John Donovan, to the hospital suffering from amnesia. His decision is opposed by hie sweetheart, Nina Torres, and his loyal crew, but supported by his father's nurse, Jean Elliott, who also has romantic designs on Mike.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-14
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John Loves Mary
Overview: After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Out Where the Stars Begin
Overview: When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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Here Comes Carter
Overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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Sierra Passage
Overview: When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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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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Three Sons o' Guns
Overview: Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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The Tougher They Come
Overview: Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Desert Pursuit
Overview: In 1852, two friends left the Nevada prospector region to relocate from en route he meets the beautiful Marie who decides to make a trek with two friends, but on the way he is attacked by three Arabs who installs camels, take these Arab adventurers to the Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-10
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The Crooked Sky
Overview: An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Two Guns and a Badge
Overview: In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-11
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Texas Bad Man
Overview: Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son of inveterate thief Frank Ferguson. Knowing full well that Ferguson's gang intends to steal a shipment of gold, Morris must stay up nights trying to second-guess his crafty dad. While there's no shortage of action, the resolution to the story relies more on brawn than brain. Western "regulars" Sheb Wooley, Myron Healey and Denver Pyle do their usual in secondary roles, as does Elaine Riley as the requisite (but hardly crucial) heroine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-20
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The Master Plan
Overview: Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-08
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Smart Blonde
Overview: Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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Once a Doctor
Overview: Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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The Desperado
Overview: "Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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The Kid Comes Back
Overview: A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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The Quarterback
Overview: A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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An Angel from Texas
Overview: A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-27
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The Lonesome Trail
Overview: Back from the Indian wars, a cowboy wages a single-handed war against a land baron and his henchmen. After his shooting hand is disabled, he masters the bow and arrow to take on the gang one arrow at a time!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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The Bushwhackers
Overview: Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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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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Blow-Ups of 1947
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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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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Buffalo Gun
Overview: In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of agents look into it and bring the culprits to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Breakdowns of 1949
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Port of Hell
Overview: The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the time, though, to romance the sister of his biggest rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Overview: Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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China Clipper
Overview: An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-11
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Cross Channel
Overview: Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. The smugglers use him, his boat and partner, "Soapy", to carry their goods back and forth across the English. During one of the trips, "Tex" is thrown overboard, but is picked up by a French fishing boat and the fisherman take him back to their village, Porte Soliare, where he meets Jacqueline. People who appear to be quite dead early on turn out to be not dead later on, and money and swag and goods keep changing hands with such regularity that, at one point, one guy is searching for something he already has (and doesn't know it), while another guy isn't searching for it because he thinks he has it...but doesn't.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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