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Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)

Cast: Charles Starrett   

Tags: Action Western 

Length: 59min

Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star...

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Glamour for Sale (1940)

Cast: Anita Louise Don Beddoe John Bright   

Tags: Drama Crime Police Detective Film 

Length: 57min

The vice squad takes on escort services in this crime drama. Two services are depicted. One escort agency is legitimate, offering fine upstanding girls with no funny business. The other agency has a more tawdry reputation (though the none of the women...

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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

Cast: Warren William Bruce Bennett Eric Blore   

Tags: Mystery Drama 

Length: 65min

Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date. Freshly arrived at the Miami airport after a sojourn in Havana, Lanyard and his general factotum Jamison (Eric Blore)...

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Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)

Cast: Fuzzy Knight   

Tags: Musical Western Western 

Length: 56min

Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of a group of vigilantes (the peace-keeping variety) who take on a gang of clever villains. With the law on their side, the bad...

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So You Won't Talk (1940)

Cast: Joe E. Brown   

Tags: Comedy Crime 

Length: 69min

In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his whiskers. Suddenly he finds himself in trouble, for without the mustache, he is the spitting image of a gangster who has just been...

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Desperate Trails (1939)

Tags: Western Adventure Action 

Length: 58min

With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal. Brown and comic sidekick Fuzzy Knight are cast as Steve Hayden and Cousin Willie, on the trail of cattle rustlers. The action...

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Red Barry (1938)

Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe Alan James Frank Lackteen   

Tags: Adventure Drama Detective Film Adventure Drama Mystery 

Length: 21min

Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role. Detective Barry is galvanized into action when 2,000,000 worth of bonds is stolen from an unnamed Asian country. Among the...

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Forbidden Valley (1938)

Cast: Fred Kohler   

Tags: Action Western 

Length: 68min

In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman....

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Tim Tyler's Luck [Serial] (1937)

Cast: Al Shean Frankie Thomas   

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure 

Length: min

The 12-episode Universal serial Tim Tyler's Luck was based on the comic strip of the same name by Lyman Young (the brother of "Blondie" creator Chic Young). Frankie Thomas stars as youthful adventurer Tim Tyler, who heads to Africa in search of his...

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