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Gun Street (1962)

Cast: Peggy Stewart Jean Willes James Brown Edward L. Cahn John Clarke   

Tags: Chase Movie Western 

Length: 67min

This routine, often disappointing, "B"-grade, low-budget western is directed by Edward L. Cahn and was the penultimate film of his career. (He died the year after Gun Street was released.) The story is mainly one long chase, as the Sheriff (Jame...

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Targets (1968)

Cast: Peter Bogdanovich Boris Karloff Laszlo Kovacs Roger Corman Frank Marshall   

Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller 

Length: 90min

Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich...

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The Police Dog Story (1961)

Cast: Maury Gertsman Merry Anders Joe Flynn Milton Frome Barry Kelley   

Tags: Action Crime Police Drama 

Length: 62min

This one-hour, police-story melodrama does not focus on the two-legged officers commonly found chasing the bad guys, but a four-legged K-9 corps German Shepherd named "Wolf" (played by Rocco), whose training forms a large part of the story. Wolf is...

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20,000 Eyes (1961)

Cast: John Banner Gene Nelson Merry Anders Paul Maxey Robert Shayne   

Tags: Crime Thriller Drama Crime Thriller 

Length: 61min

Well-made considering its six-day shooting schedule, this "B"-grade cops 'n robbers drama by Jack Leewood features Gene Nelson as Dan, an ingenious thief living on the edge at the moment. Dan has just cheated a mobster out of some stock in order to...

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Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)

Cast: Maury Gertsman James Brown Richard Schayer Bob Woodward Boyd "Red" Morgan   

Tags: Action Western 

Length: 71min

One more stock western in a long line stretching back to the turn of the 20th century, this oater by peripatetic director Edward L. Cahn has nothing particularly distinctive in its story about a group of outlaws. Billy Wade (played by the athletic...

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When the Clock Strikes (1961)

Cast: Roy Barcroft Peggy Stewart Merry Anders James Brown Edward L. Cahn   

Tags: Melodrama Drama Crime 

Length: 72min

In this crime drama, several people gather at an inn adjacent to a prison where a man is scheduled to be executed at midnight. Just as the clock is about to strike twelve, a man comes in and confesses the crime. He is arrested. The rest of the guests,...

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The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)

Cast: Ginger Rogers Stanley Ridges Ross Hunter Emil Newman Richard Whorf   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 

Length: 81min

Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom Wore Spurs. Jack Carson stars as movie cowboy hero Ben Castle, who in "real life" is exactly the opposite of his screen image....

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The Fireball (1950)

Cast: Mickey Rooney Marilyn Monroe Pat O'Brien Tay Garnett Glenn Corbett   

Tags: Drama Sports Drama 

Length: 86min

Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in 1950 thanks to the various "Roller Derby" telecasts. Rooney plays Johnny Cesar, an...

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Chain Lightning (1950)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart Raymond Massey Richard Whorf Ernest Haller Stuart Heisler   

Tags: Adventure Drama Drama Romance 

Length: 94min

This second-echelon Humphrey Bogart vehicle casts Bogie as a bomber pilot who becomes a free-lance flyboy after the war. Eleanor Parker, Bogart's wartime love, is now the secretary of aircraft manufacturer Raymond Massey. Partly out of an effort to...

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